Random Thoughts

[Terri]

By Thomas Sowell
December 4, 2007

Random thoughts on the passing scene:

Since electricity is generated mostly by burning coal, has anyone calculated how much pollution is created by electric cars, even though none of that pollution comes out of their tailpipes?

You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

Is there anyone so willing to suffer as to watch all the political "debates" of both parties?

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Not me, but I have watched all the Republican debates and didn't find them at all boring.

[Amawalk John]

Ah, the quotoble Thomas Sowell

Now that Congress has violated the First Amendment by restricting free speech with "campaign finance reform" laws, in the name of getting the influence of money out of politics, have you noticed any less influence of money in politics?

Now that the British television documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is available on DVD, will those schools that forced their students to watch Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" also show them the other side? Ask them.

The next time somebody in the media denies that there is media bias, ask how they explain the fact that there are at least a hundred stories about the shrinking arctic ice cap for every one about the expanding Antarctic ice cap, which has now grown to record size

I wonder if the eco-warriors on the MS Explorer GAP cruise to Antartica will return share their first hand knowledge of polar cooling once they thaw out and return home. As William Jefferson Clinton once said, "You'd better put some ice on that."

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I wonder if the eco-warriors on the MS Explorer GAP cruise to Antartica will return share their first hand knowledge of polar cooling once they thaw out and return home.

I thought they hit an iceburg and sank

I really like Thomas Sowell's random thoughts. The debates have been enlightening enough for me to weed out the "politico" types. I like the ones that don't have rehearsed lines and speak without notes, take strong stances, aren't afraid of stepping on toes, and are ultra conservative--but alas, they're not on the first tier. I'm not overly excited about any on the first tier, but I know who I'll vote for in the primaries. I haven't been bored, but I have been disappointed a few times. I can't decide if I agree with him on Obama--if I had to choose a dem candidate that appears to be the most engaging (even though that has to be an oxymoron) it would be Joe Biden.

[RiverKing]

Ah, the quotoble Thomas Sowell

I'll second that thought. My favorite of this batch:

Maybe the reason Senator John McCain's campaign has failed to get any traction is that the debates show him to be the kind of arrogant and condescending know-it-all who would be the most dangerous kind of president.

Now THAT is pure insight.

[schillerbjr]

Another great column by Thomas Sowell!!

[CleosMom]

If only this could be required reading in all of our nation's high schools. And coffee shops!