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Thomas Sowell: A Tiger of a Book

 Professor Amy Chua of the Yale law school is better known as a “Tiger Mom” because of her take-no-prisoners, tough love approach to raising children. She and her husband Jed Rubenfeld (a fellow Yale law professor) have written what may turn out to be the best book of this year. It is titled “The Triple […] Continue reading →

Democrats are making income inequality worse

George Will  Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it. So Barack Obama will not temper his enthusiasm for increased equality with lucidity about the government’s role in exacerbating inequality. In the movie “Animal House,” Otter, incensed by the expulsion of his fraternity, says: “I think […] Continue reading →

Walter E. Williams: Black People Duped

 People in the media and academia are mostly leftists hellbent on growing government and controlling our lives. Black people, their politicians and civil rights organizations have become unwitting accomplices. The leftist pretense of concern for the well-being of black people confers upon them an aura of moral superiority and, as such, gives more credibility to […] Continue reading →

Give Low-income Earners Exit from Social Security

A new study just published by the National Institute on Retirement Security – “Race and Retirement Insecurity in the United States”- presents a dismal snapshot of the state of retirement savings of minority American families. It reports that 54.3 percent of blacks work for employers that offer retirement plans compared to 62.3 percent of whites. […] Continue reading →

Walter E. Williams: Black Self-Sabotage

If we put ourselves into the shoes of racists who seek to sabotage black upward mobility, we couldn’t develop a more effective agenda than that followed by civil rights organizations, black politicians, academics, liberals and the news media. Let’s look at it. First, weaken the black family, but don’t blame it on individual choices. You […] Continue reading →

Every time our culture passes gas sideways, liberals love to trot out the theory of �income inequality

 … As the culprit behind it. John Ransom From the modern theory of “bullying,” to global warming, to breast cancer, to riots in Sweden, France, or the disappearance of the arctic ice shelf, income inequality looms large in liberal cosmology. At a time when more people in the history of world have become upwardly-mobile, solid […] Continue reading →

Demographic change amplifying racial inequities

One-year-old Ka’Lani is so fascinated by a round plastic toy that she doesn’t see her mother, Ke’sha Scrivner, walk into the Martha’s Table day care, chanting her name while softly clapping out a beat that Ka’Lani keeps with a few bounces on her bottom. Once on welfare, Scrivner worked her way off by studying early […] Continue reading →

We are the 91%

The most important unnoted characteristic of telephone polls (on which most of the political journalism these days seems focused — instead of on the economy) is that 91% of people refuse to participate in them. In other words, only 9% of the population is being heard in the polls. The data and analysis are laid […] Continue reading →

A Tithing Cut for the Rich

The odious “tax cuts for the rich” meme is a favorite battle cry of the class warriors. The Bush tax cuts, we are repetitively told, favored the wealthy. And Republicans, because they passed “tax cuts for the rich,” are for the 1%, while Democrats, who opposed those cuts, are for the 99%. Now come the […] Continue reading →