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The 'costs' of care

Nothing is free from the government

Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009

We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high" - either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain to increase the costs.

To sue or not to sue

That is the question

Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009

To sue or not to sue? After racist statements were made up out of thin air and then attributed to Rush Limbaugh, these were the options he had.

Marxism was, now isn't

And other random thoughts on the passing scene

Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009

Upon learning that the Constitution requires a president to be a natural born citizen, a college student said: "What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified than one born by C-section?"

Fables for adults

Obama is living in fantasy land

Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009

Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth who was walking on a log across a stream.

Who gets to decide?

A death panel by any other name is still a death panel

Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009

There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first six months of a new administration.

Equality on trial

Another reversal for nominee Sotomayor

Saturday, July 4, 2009

For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If this nominee were a white male, would this not raise questions about whether he should be elevated to a court that has found his previous decisions wrong two-thirds of the times when those decisions have been reviewed?

SOWELL: Sotomayor in context

Saturday, June 6, 2009

As the mainstream media circles the wagons around Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to protect her from the consequences of her own words and deeds, its main arguments are distractions from the issue at hand.

SOWELL: Trying a clarification cure

Sotomayor's 'out of context' racial remarks

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

In Washington, the clearer a statement, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said.

SOWELL: Random thoughts

On the passing scene ...

Saturday, May 30, 2009

They say people mellow with age. However, the older I get, the less patience I have with cleverness.

SOWELL: 'Empathy' in black robes

Please interpret the laws, not your emotions

Friday, May 29, 2009

It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court.