Random Thoughts By Thomas Sowell
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
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August 18, 2015
August 17, 2015
28% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending August 13.
August 17, 2015
Voters Worry China’s Problems Are Coming Our Way
Americans are definitely worried that the unfolding economic crisis in China may have repercussions on this side of the Pacific.
August 17, 2015
Voters Remain Pessimistic About U.S. Anti-Terror Efforts
It’s been a whole year since the United States first launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Iraq, but voters still think terrorists have the winning edge.
August 14, 2015
Hillary Doesn't Care That Much About Abortion Rights By Ted Rall
Hillary Clinton's recent attack on fellow presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, R-Fla., over abortion ("offensive," "outrageous" and "troubling," she said) reminded me of something I've been wanting to wonder aloud for some time:
Why doesn't the Democratic Party call for a federal law legalizing abortion?
August 14, 2015
Straight Outta Whitewash By Michelle Malkin
My Instagram and Facebook feeds have been filled with unwitting apologists for racism against Korean-American small-business owners.
Heckuva job, Hollywood!
August 14, 2015
Americans Think Illegals Are Taking Their Jobs
As the U.S. economy continues to stumble along, many Americans suspect they’re competing for jobs with the growing number of illegal immigrants in this country.
August 14, 2015
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Incapable of Embarrassment by Michael Barone
August is traditionally a vacation month, and East Coast elites, following European tradition, are thick on the ground in the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard (the Obamas' choice) and Nantucket.
August 14, 2015
Americans Back Local Cops Even More
While protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri one year after the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer, most Americans have an even more positive view of their local police and don’t consider their tactics out of line.
August 14, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 14, 2015
With Hillary Clinton facing increasing investigative scrutiny, are some big name Democrats poised to enter the race for the 2016 presidential nomination? Joe Biden? Al Gore?
Investigators confirmed this week that Clinton hosted top secret information on her private web server while serving as secretary of State. Most voters think Clinton’s use of a private, non-government provider for her State Department e-mail raises serious national security concerns.
August 13, 2015
Does Obama Want to Outlaw Coal?
Voters are skeptical about President Obama’s plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by coal-burning power plants and remain closely divided over what he has in mind for the U.S. coal industry. Most Republicans think he wants to get rid of coal all together.
August 13, 2015
Will Ferguson Protests Make A Bad Situation Worse?
Americans don’t have much good to say about the protests this week in Ferguson, Missouri on the one-year anniversary of the Michael Brown incident.
August 13, 2015
More Voters Put Economy Ahead of Global Warming Worries
Despite President Obama’s recent announcement of an even more ambitious plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, voters still put job creation ahead of the fight against global warming and don’t blame their fellow Americans for worrying about the economy first.
August 13, 2015
Republicans 2016: What to Do With the Donald? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Whatever you think of him, Donald Trump is a stick of dynamite thrown into the presidential pond. All the boats have been rocked, and given Trump’s potential for more explosiveness, the political waters show little sign of settling down anytime soon.
Donald Trump is so special that we’ve created a category (and perhaps a word) just for him in our Republican presidential rankings: “The Un-Nominatable Frontrunner.”
August 12, 2015
GOP Voters On Gilmore: Jim Who?
Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore quietly entered the crowded race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in late July, but GOP voters see little chance that he will be the nominee.
August 12, 2015
No Means No: Keep Gitmo Jihadists Out of U.S.A. By Michelle Malkin
Get off that late-summer snooze button, America. The Obama administration is plotting to break a major promise made under oath -- and jeopardize our nation in the name of social justice.
This week, top White House officials floated renewed plans to close down Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Pentagon and Justice Department bureaucrats have been powwowing over how to shutter the facility and import up to hundreds of detained jihad suspects into the U.S. It's a longtime legacy promise President Obama wants to fulfill to progressives before he rides off permanently to Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii's lushest golf courses.
August 12, 2015
Should Democrats Have More Debates?
Democrats are planning to hold six debates for their 2016 presidential candidates, but at least two of the candidates – Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley - say that’s not enough.
August 12, 2015
Immigration Is Great By John Stossel
Yikes, you really hate me!
Many of you, anyway, based on Twitter and Facebook comments posted after I argued immigration with Ann Coulter on my TV show.
August 12, 2015
Carly Up, Trump Down
The post-debate picture has a new contender in the top 10 of Republican presidential contenders, while the leader of the pack has taken a fall.
August 11, 2015
Has ‘The Donald’ Peaked?
Donald Trump remains the leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his support has fallen by a third over the past week-and-a-half. Carly Fiorina is now near the front of the pack.
