Your Homework Assignment

1. To get a fresh understanding of the dangers of current health care proposals, read Thomas Sowell's article at Townhall. Fables for Adults by out favorite economist/philosopher illustrates the folly of Obamacare.

2. To get some idea of the public relations work the US media has performed for liberal causes during the last 60 years, read Media Malpractice: Tom Brokaw's World Implodes in The American Spectator. From Barry Goldwater to John Edwards to ACORN, it reveals the depth of the deception and misinformation the mass media has inflicted on unknowing Americans. In the fifties and sixties, only those few who read National Review knew what was really happening, but now the Internet and talk radio daily bring more truth to light, effectively curtailing their influence.

3. To get a new understanding of the big picture, read about George Soros' nefarious role in our national decline. He prefers to stay in the background, but his power is global. Changing the US is his crowning achievement.

Barney Frank VS The Truth

Two of my favorite writers team up in one article when Walter Williams reviews Thomas Sowell’s new book, The Housing Boom and Bust. The review and the book both explore the causes of the housing crisis we face today. Unlike Barney Frank’s bald face lie, the problem was not lack of regulation, but legislative interference with established and reasonable financial regulations. Unfortunately the US public seems to accept Frank's false history that shields recalcitrant legislators (especially Frank himself) and their follies from facing the consequences of their actions. Every citizen needs to read the review and the book. We will lose all of our freedoms if we leave the foxes in charge of the hen house, i.e., allow the current politicians to run our country without serious oversight on our part. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance against all enemies, domestic and foreign.

Talking Points

Thomas Sowell has the last, best word on the subject of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques in his column, Talking Points, today. As usual, he offers an intelligent analysis far beyond the frantic group think of today's media. I have been a fan of Thomas Sowell since I read his Black Education: Myths and Tragedies in the early 1970's. He regularly skewers the lack of honesty and lack of logic in most of the politically correct shibboleths of today's left. Apparently I'm not his only fan since both Paul Johnson and David Mamet have called him "our greatest contemporary philosopher."