It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
Thomas SowellDo countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas SowellActually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas SowellWhat all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
Thomas SowellThe charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?
Thomas Sowell