Comments on: THOMAS SOWELL FAN CLUB

By: ...to say the 'I'

...to say the 'I' — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:34:37 +0000

Add me to the fan club

Michelle Malkin points out an interview with Thomas Sowell at The American Enterprise. Below, a few gems. On economics: TAE: You point out that the inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often in more places…

By: Acorns from an Okie

Acorns from an Okie — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:57:06 +0000

I Dream of the Day When All Visions of Utopia Are Banished

The American Enterprise (TAE) interviews Thomas Sowell in Live with TAE: Thomas Sowell The opening paragraph of the interview tells where Thomas comes from and his history: A senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, economist Thomas S…

By: John

John — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:54:19 +0000

Tom Sowell is a national treasure.

By: vader

vader — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:03:34 +0000

Sowell is probably the most original conservative thinker in the country today. His writings do not display the depth of learning seen in Russell Kirk’s works, but they are much more accessible.

Unfortunately, I fear he is fighting a rearguard action.

I hope you do not find my lack of faith disturbing.

By: Martin aka Blogbat

Martin aka Blogbat — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:37:40 +0000

Bravo, Nicole Lawson. I don’t think it could be any more rightly said.

By: Johnny Walker Red

Johnny Walker Red — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 05:41:51 +0000

“Amazing how you remember details from important events!”

I remember my high school public speaking teacher (the best teacher anyone anywhere ever had) handing me a newspaper column by Sowell and telling me, “Thomas Sowell is the smartest man in America.” I concur.

By: Expertise

Expertise — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 04:37:47 +0000

I can honestly say Thomas Sowell – well, his writings – changed my life.

I was on the fence after the Elian Gonzalez debacle and how the Democrats treated Cubans. So I think that placed permanent skeptism on them.

But once I read “Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?” I hopped completely over the fence, and I’m not looking back.

“A Conflict of Visions” was good. However, I think his greatest work was “Race and Culture: A World View”. The historical analysis on how different cultures have clashed and the eerie similaries they have to the modern era simply amazed me.

The funny thing is, I can still remember first reading his columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and thinking he was some old goat who hated life. Amazing.

http://expertise.blogdrive.com

By: Martin aka Blogbat

Martin aka Blogbat — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 04:24:23 +0000

Slimedog, for your industry I wouldn’t just settle for IB. I’d go for IBM

Greg, how often does the doctor recommend getting our literature analyized?

By: slimedog

slimedog — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 04:17:45 +0000

Greg:

Help, I’m a poor semi-literate computer geek–how often should I get my literature analyzed? And should I get some of this I B? How much?

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 03:43:00 +0000

Hey, he just trashed IB. I take IB, and I think it’s a great program. I’m sorry, but aside from my Commie 10th grade history teacher, it has been very balanced.

We read international literature like Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, and the Stranger. I wouldn’t call those socialist readings myself. Also, we read American classics, and a plethora or Shakespeare. I’m almost insulted that he burned it so bad. If it weren’t for IB, I wouldn’t have the education I got. Instead I would have never learned how to write a decent essay, and how to master literary analysis.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 03:40:03 +0000

Logic is like kryptonite to Marxism.

Thank goodness that Sowell was saved… we need more folks like him on our side.

By: Martin aka Blogbat

Martin aka Blogbat — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 03:24:27 +0000

I recently read his “‘Working Poor’ Scam” article in the print-edition of Newsmax. He did a good job in highlighting yet another bogus bulwark of the Democrat left: the hopelessly poor. Thomas sheds light on the fact that over 2/3 of these so-called “working poor” in the United States are part-time or workers under 25- most often students. Thomas not only points out some interesting bias the related Business Week article, which touched off this one, but also puts to rest the Democrat myth that there are so many – “working poor” and something must be done about it, by reminding us that something always is: they graduate, they get better paying positions as they gain seniority and so forth.

Thomas hints that the Liberals either don’t get it or are intentionally misleading the public- or both. While in socialist countries workers often are barely subsisting from their wages- and have no ready path for promotion, the non-patriotic Left is always too quick to forget that in this free country, opportunity surrounds us like the air. Just ask any new citizen.

By: Marc Porter

Marc Porter — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 03:09:22 +0000

God bless Thomas Sowell. His “Vision of the Anointed” changed my political outlook forever.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046508995X/qid=1091495299/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/102-5666415-4777719?v=glance&s=books