Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as …
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer, is a favorite of mine. He wrote “Gulliver’s Travels.” One of Gulliver’s …
Read More »Clinton, Sanders, and the Real History of Progressivism
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders seek to claim the “progressive” mantle. Both claim the other is not …
Read More »'Segregation': Sloppy Language and Thinking
George Orwell said, “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Gore Vidal elaborated on that insight, saying, …
Read More »Isn't It Strange?
There is a letter titled “Isn’t It Strange?” making the rounds in email boxes. It asks questions to which our …
Read More »Why Money, Smaller Class Sizes Won't Close Black-White Education Gap
Some credit Albert Einstein, others credit Benjamin Franklin, with the observation that “the definition of insanity is doing the same …
Read More »What Historically Ignorant Americans Don't Know About Blacks and the Confederacy
Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, …
Read More »Minimum Wage Dishonesty
Michael Hiltzik, a columnist and Los Angeles Times reporter, wrote an article titled “Does a minimum wage raise hurt workers? …
Read More »Unappreciated Tax on the Poor — And It's Not 'Racism'
A few years ago, BET had a commentary titled “Where Are the Grocery Stores in Black Neighborhoods?” One wonders whether …
Read More »Misleading and Using Blacks for 'Diversity' Points
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with …
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