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Thomas Sowell
American
Economist
Born:
Jun 30
,
1930
Government
Pay
People
Who
Will
You
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Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Thomas Sowell
Fear
Decency
Run
Instead
Academics
Up
Campus
Just
Common
Barbarians
Stand
Stand Up
Letting
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas Sowell
Prosperity
Poverty
Own
Rose
Follow
Having
Seldom
Leaders
Did
Racial
Ethnic
Groups
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
Thomas Sowell
People
Brainy
President
Conservatives
Some
Seem
Adviser
How
Been
His
Impressed
Very
Quite
Might
Many
Reassuring
Including
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.
Thomas Sowell
You
People
Prison
Other
Bites
Unarmed
Beating
Like
Him
Sound
Sound Bites
Bloody
Child
Shooting
Send
Media
Basis
Imagine
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell
Speak
Visions
Facts
Divorced
Mere
Isolated
Curiosities
Against
Themselves
Theories
Competing
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
Thomas Sowell
Somebody
Sign
Would
Would-Be
Price
Allowed
Supply
Demand
Freely
Operate
Were
Than
Artificially
Shortage
Lower
Keeping
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell
Win
Would
Would-Be
Cost
Lawsuits
Lawyers
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Making
Accomplished
Frivolous
Frivolous Lawsuits
Against
Lowering
Companies
Such Things
Harder
Actually
Things
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
Thomas Sowell
Made
Gender
Few
Research
Publish
Other
Claims
Dare
Would
Various
Studies
Course
Courses
Ethnic
Teach
Professors
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