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• Conservative Asks Oprah for ‘Gift to Black America’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 144
  By Lloyd MarcusGuest BloggerI have a history with Oprah Winfrey. Back in the 1980s, Oprah and I worked at WJZ-TV, an ABC affiliate TV station in Baltimore. Oprah was co-host with Richard Sher of the local morning talk show, “People Are Talking.” I was a graphic designer in the Creative Services/Art Department.The ...
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• Did land use laws and planning controls help cause financial crisis?

  
  Real Estate Investors Daily — Authority: 130
  In his most recent book, “The Housing Boom and Bust,” economist Thomas Sowell argues that the current financial crisis was partly caused by politicians who were attempting to solve an “affordable housing” crisis, which did not really exist on a national basis. Land use laws and attempts to protect open space, ...
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• Solving Whose Problem?

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 490
  By Thomas Sowell No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems— of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. Many of the things ...
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• Quick Hits

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 575
  Surprise! Businesses are hiring fewer workers because of the Porkulus expansion of unemployment benefits . Are you wondering how the housing meltdown happened? Thomas Sowell explains it . (Long but worth a read if you are unfamiliar with the Community Reinvestment Act.) Speaking of a housing meltdown, get ready ...
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• Point/Counterpoint: Steinberg On Hasan

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 493
  Back on November 8, three days after the Fort Hood massacre, Chicago Sun Times columnist Neil Steinberg wrote a little instructional column about how we enlightened Americans should – or rather should not – respond to the actions of Major Nidal Malik Hasan. As an intellectual/writing exercise, I thought it would ...
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• Bowing to “World Opinion” – by Thomas Sowell

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 584
  The Obamadrama, the first and (hopefully  last) “post-American” presidency…. Thomas Sowell,  here on WoJ! In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed ...
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• The Housing Boom and Bust

  
  JoeTaxpayer — Authority: 421
  A number of books have been written about the recent real estate crash over the last months. I’ve found Thomas Sowell’s The Housing Boom and Bust to be among the best. Dr Sowell attributes much of the crisis to the well meaning politicians who misinterpret the meaning behind the data. They assume that any ...
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• Today’s edition of the FM newspaper – excerpts from old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 536
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are four sections:Links to interesting news and analysisToday’s special itemNews about themes from posts past on the FM websiteAn interesting comment lifted from the FM website(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis“British Muslims Fear Repercussions ...
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• Virginia News Stand: November 6, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 137
  Annotations & Elucidations  A Nice Deep Breath Computer problems hamper today’s blog offerings, but I’ve managed to eek out a News Stand. Wasn’t much going on statewide — it’s a good time to take a deep politics breath and relax after the last several months. One item of note is that ...
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• Interesting Book of the Day

  
  The Shekel - Coins, Law and Commentary — Authority: 424
  Just finished reading The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell.Theres also a new updated editioncoming out shortly.The short and concise(192 pages) book is very well written and it cogently and succinctly without wasting any words explains the cause of the housing boom and bust and the aftermath. Sowell points out ...
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• Obama’s Contempt for America!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  Obama’s Contempt for America! The Obama Regime’s “Stalinist” Approach to Governing A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet ************************************ I still get chills up my spine when I hear stories of the way Obama’s henchmen are going about governing this nation. Why? It frightens ...
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• How Strictest Price Control Of All Restrains A Great Medical Advance

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  This is the eighth installment in a nine-part series excerpting the chapter on medical care from the latest version of economist Thomas Sowells "Applied Economics."The most stringent of all price controls is permitting no price at all to be charged. That is the legal situation in the United States and in various other ...
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• Medical Costs Examined by Thomas Sowell

  
  Constant Conservative — Authority: 139
  With our illustrious House of Representatives on the brink of committing health care reform , it is only proper that we look at a brief series by Thomas Sowell which addresses the cost of care. In Part 1 , Dr. Sowell addresses the the inflexibility of medical costs: Letting old people die would undoubtedly be ...
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• Dismantling America

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 544
  by Thomas Sowell: Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50% or 90%? Did you think that ...
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• Thomas Sowell Echoes Joust The Facts

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 129
  First Mr. Sowell today, on the "costs" of healthcare: There is a fundamental difference between reducing costs and simply shifting costs around, like a pea in a shell game at a carnival. Costs are not reduced simply because you pay less at a doctors office and more in taxes-- or...
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• "The Economics of Medical Care" Chapter from Thomas Sowells book, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, Linked at Investors Business Daily

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 153
  Dr. Sowell has granted IBD permission to run one of the chapters of Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One — The Economics of Medical Care — in its entirety. We are doing so because of its relevance to the debate over health care reform. The chapter will run in nine parts over the next week and a half. ...
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• How Cost Of Drug Development Is Lost On Public And Politicians

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  This is the fifth installment of a nine-part series excerpting the chapter on medical care from the new edition of economist Thomas Sowells "Applied Economics."The high prices of pharmaceutical drugs have been a contentious issue, though they are a relatively small part of total spending on medical care in the United ...
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• Thomas Sowell--Would You Have Believed?

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 507
  I knew it was going to be bad, but I have an imagination reserved exclusively for fathers and husbands. via Patriot Post and Patriot Mark Alexander Opinion in Brief "Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one ...
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