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Random
Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell
Jun 25, 2013
Random
thoughts on the passing
scene:
Edmund
Burke said, "There is
no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil
men."
Evil men do not always snarl. Some smile charmingly. Those are the most
dangerous. If you don't think the mainstream media slants the news,
keep track
of how often they tell you that the Arctic ice pack is shrinking and
how seldom
they tell you that the Antarctic ice pack is expanding. The latter news
would
not fit the "global warming" scenario that so many in the media are
promoting.
Someone
has referred to Vice
President Biden as President Obama's "impeachment insurance." Even
critics who are totally opposed to Barack Obama's policies do not want
anything
to cut short his presidency, with Joe Biden as his successor.
People
who refuse to accept
unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie
to them.
What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
Given
the shortage of articulate
Republican leaders, it will be a real loss -- to the country, not just
to the
Republicans -- if Senator Marco Rubio discredits himself, early in his
career,
by supporting "comprehensive" immigration reform that amounts to just
another amnesty, with false promises to secure the border.
Ever
since I learned, as a
teenager, that the "Saturday Evening Post" magazine was actually
published on Wednesday mornings, I have been very skeptical about
words.
"Gun control" laws do not control guns, "rent control" laws
do not control rent and government "stimulus" spending does not
stimulate the economy.
It
is hard to think of two people
with more different personalities than New York's Mayor Michael
Bloomberg and
President Barack Obama. But they are soul mates when it comes to
thinking that
they ought to take a whole spectrum of decisions out of citizens'
hands, and
impose the government's decisions on them.
Maybe
the reason for the New York
Yankees' low batting averages has something to do with the fact that so
many of
their batters seem to be swinging for the fences, even when a single
would
score the winning run.
President
Obama's denial of
knowledge about the various scandals in his administration that are
starting to
come to light suggests that his titles should now include
Innocent-Bystander-in-Chief…
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