Tag Archives: Thomas Sowell
Complicit by Inaction
Thomas Sowell often says that “there are no solutions, only trade-offs.” What he means by that is that there is no perfect solution to any problem. There are always negative consequences to one degree or another. Greater safety means less freedom. Greater transparency means less privacy. Greater knowledge shatters innocence.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Charol Shakeshaft, child sexual abuse, Elon Musk, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein/Epstein Island, Jerry Sandusky/Second Mile Scandal, John Jay College, Kier Starmer, P. Diddy, Thomas Sowell
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National Education Association Seeks World Transformation
The National Education Association’s (NEA) annual convention took place last week in Chicago. It opened with a theatrical speech act by NEA president, Rebecca (Becky) Pringle who has no dearth of pride in the “amazing accomplishments” of the NEA members. Pringle cited as inspiration for world transformation—not systemically oppressed persons of color like Thomas Sowell, Carol Swain, or Glenn Loury—but communist and former Black Panther who studied under Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis:
…We must share [the] view Professor Davis holds dear whether it is a mind, a heart, a school, a community, or our world,
Posted in Education
Tagged Angela Davis, Becky Pringle, Black Panther, Carol Swain, Glenn Loury, Howard Zinn, National Education Association, NEA, People’s History of America, Rebecca Pringle, Roe v. Wade, The 1619 Project, Thomas Sowell, U.S. Supreme Court
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The U.S. Constitution Under Fire
By God’s grace, the American experiment has lasted for 232 years now, since the Constitution went into effect on April 30, 1789. Every political leader that is sworn in agrees to uphold the Constitution.
But now in our day of rampant political correctness, of Marxist revisionism, of “egg shell plaintiffs,” of “safe spaces,” of “hate speech” (which is often just the other guy’s opinion), even the Constitution has recently been labeled as “harmful.” It might offend someone.
But now in our day of rampant political correctness, of Marxist revisionism, of “egg shell plaintiffs,” of “safe spaces,” of “hate speech” (which is often just the other guy’s opinion), even the Constitution has recently been labeled as “harmful.” It might offend someone.
Posted in Federal
Tagged "harmful content", Campus Reform, Constitution, Dan Crenshaw, Federalist, George Washington, James Lankford, James Madison, John Witherspoon, Marxist, National Archives, Ophelie Jacobson, Peter Lillback, Thomas Sowell, William Gladstone
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Speech Suppression is Habit-Forming
Speech suppression is a habit that the Biden administration and its liberal supporters can't seem to break. Many staffers may have picked up the habit in their student years: Colleges and universities have been routinely censoring "politically incorrect" speech for the last 30 years. As Thomas Sowell noted, "There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals."
Posted in Education
Tagged Cardinal Bellarmine, Facebook, Galileo, Google, Hunter Biden, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, Michael Goodwin, New York Post, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, Speech Suppression, Stephen L. Miller, Thomas Sowell, Twitter
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Critical Race Theory Finds a Home at Wheaton College
It’s a curious phenomenon that racists rarely see their own racism—the plank in their own eyes. That was true during the long, torturous days of slavery. It was true during the long torturous days of Jim Crow laws. It was true during the Civil Rights Movement. And it’s true now. No, it’s not conservatives who are spreading racism while remaining blithely blind to it. It’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and BLM who are spreading racism like manure throughout our cultural system. And it’s racist Ibram X. Kendi who sees himself as “anti-racist” and wrote,
…The
Posted in CRT/Racism/BLM, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, Derrick Bell, Ibram X. Kendi, Jim Wallis, Nathan Cartagena, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin DiAngelo, Sojourners, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Sowell, Tommy Curry, Voddie Baucham, Wheaton College
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Unbelievably, Woke Springfield STILL Isn’t Done Indoctrinating Children
State Representative Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) has filed a jaw-dropping bill , HB 80, that doesn’t propose merely “standards” or “guidelines” or even a type of curricula. Oh no, Flowers is going for the whole enchilada. If passed, her bill would mandate the teaching of specific books on race and feminism: 20 non-fiction books and 9 fiction. Every book is written by a leftist. There is not one book in Flowers’ list by either a person of color or a colorless person who criticizes or dissents from leftist assumptions on race or feminism.
Posted in Education
Tagged Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, and Do, Anne Wortham, Ben Crump, Between the World and Me, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Brown Girl Dreaming, Candace Owens, Carol Swain, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, feminism, HB 80, Heather MacDonald, Hood Feminism, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, Jacquelyn Woodson, Jason Riley, Jennifer Harvey, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, John McWhorter, Larry Elder, Layla F. Saad, Mary Flowers, Me and White Supremacy, Michelle Alexander, Mikki Kendall, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, race, Raising White Kids, REACH Act, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rich Lowry, Robin DiAngelo, Shelby Steele, So You Want to Talk About Race, Ta-Nehesi Coates, The New Jim Crow, They Can’t Kill Us All, Think, Thomas Sowell, Wesley Lowery, White Fragility, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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Leftist Lawmakers and Activists Call for Cancellation of All History Classes
Before you read this, you might want to have a fire extinguisher at the ready, because this news just may light your hair on fire. State Representative La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago) held a press conference on Sunday in which he called for all Illinois schools to cease teaching history because he’s “Concerned that current school history teaching leads to white privilege and a racist society.” In a press release titled in part “Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools,” Ford proclaimed from his high horse,...
Posted in Education, Illinois Politics
Tagged 1619 Project, Abolish History, Abolishment, America, Black, Black Lives Matter, Chicago, Color, George Orwell, History, Illinois, Illinois schools, International Slave Trade, Jewis, John McWhorter, La Shawn K. Ford, LGBTQ, Meleika Gardner, New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Rue Simmons, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Windy City Times, Xavier Joy
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The Catastrophe of Fatherlessness
Fatherlessness is a serious blight on American life. As the family goes, so goes society. And, contrary to what the left says (who spend much of their energy diminishing traditional gender roles and arguing that whatever “family you choose” is just as good as the real thing), fathers are integral to the life of a child.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged All in the Family, Archie Bunke, Bertrand Russell, Cabrini-Green, Charles Crismier, Dr. Paul Vitz, Father Knows Best, Father's Day, fatherlessness, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Society, H. G. Wells, Hearts of the Fathers, Homer Simpson, Jean Paul Sartre, Leave It to Beaver, Sigmund Freud, The Faith of the Fatherless, Thomas Hobbs, Thomas Sowell, Voltaire
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