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July 14, 2005
A Little Bit of Sowell
A few recent quotes and links to articles by my favorite writer on the planet, Thomas Sowell:
On the recent Supreme Court emiment domain ruling:
"(P)oliticians can replace your home with whatever they expect will pay more taxes than you do -- and call their money grab a "public purpose."
From a recent installment of Random Thoughts:
"Will even the bloody terrorist attacks in London put a stop to the media's hand-wringing because they don't think we have been nice enough to some of the cut-throats who are locked up in Guantanamo? The media have never shown any such interest in how prisoners are treated anywhere else on the island of Cuba, such as in Castro's prisons."
and
"The next time someone demands a timetable for the war in Iraq, ask them to name just one war -- anywhere -- that had such a thing."
From The Tragedy of Africa:
"Promoting dependency and irresponsible borrowing is not the way to help the poor internationally any more than these are ways of helping the poor at home. Such policies benefit the bureaucracies that administer foreign aid and enable vain people to see themselves as saviors, even when they are doing more harm than good."
From The Tragedy of Africa, Part II:
"Whatever damage European colonialism did to Africa during its relatively brief reign, that was probably less than the damage done later by well-meaning Western would-be saviors of Africa. Africans do not need to be treated as mascots but as people whose own efforts, skills, and initiatives need to be freed from the tyranny of their leaders and the paternalism of Western busybodies."
| By colrus | 11:55 PM
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