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	Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Sowell (born 30 June 1930) is a prominent American economist, political writer, and conservative/libertarian [1] commentator.
		Sowell was born in North Carolina, where, he recounts, his encounters with white people were so limited that he didn't believe that "yellow" was a possible color for human hair (A Personal Odyssey, 2000), and later moved with his mother and siblings (his father died before he was born) to Harlem, New York City.
		Sowell primarily writes on economic subjects, in which he generally advocates a free market approach to capitalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Sowell (1279 words)

	Clarence Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas was confirmed by the Senate with a 52-48 vote on October 15, 1991, making it the closest confirmation vote for a Justice in the 20th century.
		Thomas wrote that the beating, which left Hudson with minor bruises, facial swelling, loosened teeth, and a cracked dental plate, did not cause sufficient harm to meet the constitutional standard; however, he left open the option of a criminal charge or a tort claim, just not a constitutional claim.
		Thomas looked to the history and origin of the Excessive Fines Clause, along with 18th-century congressional enactments and 17th-century English cases, in order to conclude that the fine was excessive in proportion to the harm that the government sustained.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarence_Thomas (3015 words)

	A man alone. (Tom Sowell), by Peter Brimelow
		Sowell's best-known work, however, is still probably in the field of race and economics.
		Sowell has attacked the logic-chopping involved as an example of the decay of the rule of law—the subversion of clearly established guidelines by arbitrary judicial fiat.
		For Sowell the salient events of the post-civil-rights era are not the greatly increased government programs but the collapsing fl family structure, the rising teenage unemployment and pregnancy rates, and the declining school standards that he says have deprived his relatives still in the ghetto of even the slim chance he had.
	www.vdare.com /pb/sowell_1987.htm (1594 words)

	Thomas Sowell
		Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.
		Sowell’s current research focuses on cultural history in a world perspective, a subject on which he began to write a trilogy in 1982.
		Sowell received his bachelor’s degree in economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard in 1958, his master’s degree in economics from Columbia University in 1959, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968.
	www-hoover.stanford.edu /bios/sowell.html (394 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education
		Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem.
		Though Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers in the late '70s and early '80s, he says did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984.
		Sowell says he enjoys writing for the general public because it enables him to address the heart of issues without the smoke and mirrors that so often accompany academic writing.
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/thomas-sowell.html (923 words)

	AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WAYS: Affirmative Action around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Sowell: Because if there are 100 jobs there and three of them have been set aside for--and three untouchables are actually able to make use of the set-asides for them, then everybody who lost a job will say he would have been hired if it only had been the untouchables hadn't grabbed these.
		Thomas Sowell: But before you see, in the university for example, the admission was just by qualifications and so an absolute majority of the people in the universities were Chinese.
		Thomas Sowell: In the Weber case, Weber was a worker in a plant in Louisiana and he wanted to get into a training program which would qualify him for higher jobs, and he was turned down.
	www.uncommonknowledge.org /900/902.html (4202 words)

	Biography - Thomas Sowell
		Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem.
		Sowell's most recent book, A Personal Odyssey, is a memoir recounting the obstacles and opportunities this sometimes controversial scholar has faced throughout his career.
		Though Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers since the late '70s, he did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984.
	www.suanews.com /biothomas.html (351 words)

	Thomas Sowell at the Conservative Bookstore
		Sowell argues that there is a widening gap between first hand knowledge and decision making and that most social decisions today are made based on elitist visions of the way things ought to be rather than the way they actually are.
		Thomas Sowell is famous for his wit and wisdom as well as his erudite analysis.
		Thomas Sowell is one of the best known men of a rising fl conservative movement.
	www.conservativebookstore.com /fsowell.shtml (790 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Sowell explains that it was in fact one of the most revolutionary concepts to emerge in the history of ideas.
		Sowell, who adds that efforts by some today to counterbalance the prevailing liberalism in academia with more right-wing instructors is not only an exercise in futility but a disservice to students.
		Sowell on his next project, though he graciously allows that a collection of correspondence, as well as a book on intellectuals, is in the works.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110008144 (1827 words)

	A Thomas Sowell Page
		Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford University.
		Thomas Sowell is the most original and important conservative thinker of the late 20th century, illuminating this epoch of conservative triumph.
		Thomas Sowell argues that late 20th century America is in the grip of what Alexis de Tocqueville would have called a depraved taste for equality.
	homepage.eircom.net /~odyssey/Politics/Sowell/Sowell.html (10418 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - Thomas Sowell Interview (September 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I'm thinking of the comparison of Thomas Kuhn's notion of a paradigm in science, where you have the Phlogiston theory and you have the oxygen theory, but after a certain amount of data had been collected, one of them had to fall by the wayside.
		SOWELL: I think de Soto's book [The Mystery of Capital] is really a landmark and it ought to be read by precisely the people who are never going to read it, because I think there's a great deal of confusion about property rights.
		SOWELL: The idea has long been that these countries are in a vicious cycle of poverty, and it's only by giving money from the industrialized world to these countries that they have any chance of advancing.
	minneapolisfed.org /pubs/region/01-09/sowell.cfm (5476 words)

	Thomas Sowell -- Libertarian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell is one of the most important and respect writers on politics and social policy in America.
		In the early '60s, Sowell held jobs as an economist with the Department of Labor and AT&T. But his real interest was in teaching and scholarship.
		Currently Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, CA.
	www.self-gov.org /celebs/Sowell2.html (775 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Gergen dialougue with Thomas Sowell -- July 11, 1996
		THOMAS SOWELL: They would save a tremendous amount of money out of very small wages, so--and in Argentina, for example, in the 1880's, a third of the people, most of the people in the Bank of Buenos Aires, most of the depositors were Italian, not Argentine, even though the Italians were desperately poor.
		THOMAS SOWELL: And so even where they are rivers--and there aren't that many rivers in Africa--you can't go very far on them and you can't go there in large ships, uh, and so you couldn't have international trade.
		THOMAS SOWELL: Oh, absolutely, although I must say that in many fiends Americans are falling so much behind that if it weren't for the foreigners in fields like sci--like engineering and mathematics, we'd be in very bad shape.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/sowell.html (1605 words)

	Thomas Sowell
		The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and the powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world.
		More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also a story of the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back.
		Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society.
	aalbc.com /authors/thomas.htm (1819 words)

	Joust The Facts: Thomas Sowell On Political Weakness
		Thomas Sowell's syndicated column yesterday addressed an interesting point, whether it was President Bush that was weak, or whether the font of Republican weakness was the party's Senate delegation.
		Sowell notes that this nomination was made from a position of weakness, according to Rush Limbaugh, but thinks the weakness lies in the Senate.
		Sowell also notes that the Democrats might have been in a tough position with their base had a high-profile and transparently conservative - but clearly qualified - nominee been sent up.
	joustthefacts.typepad.com /joust_the_facts/2005/10/thomas_sowell_o.html (1171 words)

	Reb's Politically Incorrect Blog: Conservative - Thomas Sowell Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Sowell wrote an article in February, 2006, entitled "Two Crises - One Phony And One Real." The full article is here.
		Thomas Sowell wrote an article in February, 2006 entitled "The Republican Party & Blacks." The full article may be found here.
		Thomas Sowell's article about Rosa Parks and segregation is entitled 'It Was Politics That Segregated The Races' and was published in October 2005.
	www.rebnora.com /blog/archives/cat_conservative_thomas_sowell.html (1853 words)

	Salon Books \| Black and right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Sowell talks about the arrogance of liberal elites and the loneliness of the fl conservative.
		Sowell, 69, grew up in North Carolina and Harlem, and received degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago.
		Sowell spoke to Salon Books on the phone from Los Angeles, where he was on tour to promote his 26th book, "The Quest for Cosmic Justice," a fleet and pleasing three-essay treatment of how our dreams of fixing the world from the ground up can, and usually will, backfire.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1999/11/10/sowell (793 words)

	Clarence Thomas -- Celebrity "Rand Fans" -- The Atlas Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Justice Thomas is well known for a personal philosophy of self-reliant individualism, and for tenacious support of individual rights.
		Thomas would tell a Reason magazine interviewer that "I tend really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged." According to a friend quoted by Andrew Peyton Thomas: "He really thought Ayn Rand, that this was really great stuff.
		As we ponder the awesome implications of that election, it is astonishing that the rise of Clarence Thomas to that pivotal position was in no small measure fueled by the ideas and inspiration of Ayn Rand.
	www.atlassociety.org /tas/rb_celebrity_ayn_rand_fans_clarence_thomas.asp (711 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy - Thomas ...
		Sowell deconstructs how statistics can be distorted to prove assumptions (that lack of prenatal care is the cause of fl infant mortality) and gleefully skewers ``Teflon prophets'' such as John Kenneth Galbraith (who said that big companies are immune from the market) and Paul Ehrlich (who said starvation loomed).
		Sowell scores his targets for disdaining their opponents, but this book also invokes caricature-these days, many of ``the anointed'' are less unreconstructed than he assumes.
		Sowell describes the Liberal belief structure with logical severity, including their demand for unquestioning acceptance, their demonization of anyone who does challenge them, and their underlying desire for power at the expense of liberty.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=046508995X&itm=1 (811 words)

	VDARE.com: 05/15/05 - Tom Sowell’s “Black Redneck” Theory—Ingenious, But Insufficient
		That Thomas Sowell hasn't yet won the Nobel Prize for Economic Science reflects more poorly upon the economics profession's infatuation with mathematical formulas than upon Sowell's lifetime achievement.
		For example, in "Are Jews Generic?" Sowell outlines the tendency of the masses to persecute "middle-man minorities" such as Jews, Armenians, and the Overseas Chinese, precisely because of the value of their contributions to the economy.
		Sowell attributes much in current fl culture to the Scotch-Irish, such as a tendency to react tumultuously to being "dissed." For example, President Andy Jackson, the exemplar of Scotch-Irish manhood, was admired by his followers for having fought several duels.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/050515_redneck.htm (2541 words)

	Sowell Reaches Beyond Rhetoric; Economist and writer Thomas Sowell is on a crusade to make politicians move beyond ...
		Sowell Reaches Beyond Rhetoric; Economist and writer Thomas Sowell is on a crusade to make politicians move beyond stage-one thinking and consider the consequences of the policies they advocate - Picture Profile - Interview
		The titles of Sowell's books describe his themes: The Quest for Cosmic Justice, for example, showed how left-wing utopian thinking or abstract thinking of any sort is fraught with enormous dangers to liberty, while the subject of The Vision of the Anointed was underlined by its subtitle, Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
		Sowell has a new book scheduled for publication in May, Affirmative Action Around the World, in which he examines affirmative action in such places as India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and the United States.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2004_March_15/ai_114174534 (500 words)

	The American Enterprise: Thomas Sowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sowell: There's a lot to get riled up about these days, and I would say that half or more of the things I've written were written, one, because I thought they needed to be said, and two, because I thought most people had better sense than to believe what the experts were claiming.
		Sowell: I don't believe in vigilante action but I'm tempted in my daydreams to organize a group of guys in combat fatigues to go out there at night and pick up those snails so people can get on with their lives.
		Sowell: There's something Eric Hoffer said: "Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature." There always has to be a crisis--some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.18140/article_detail.asp (4014 words)

	Jay Nordlinger on Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals on National Review Online
		Sowell is always adamant on the ill effects of grievance: “Has a sense of special grievance helped advance any people — or has what happened in centuries past been a distraction and an incitement to counterproductive strife.
		Sowell straightforwardly explains that the West was unique in its opposition to slavery, and in its efforts against it.
		Sowell proceeds with what may be the most curious essay in the book: “Germans and History.” In a nutshell, he does not believe that Germans ought to be defined by the twelve years from 1933 to 1945.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/nordlinger200509090930.asp (1588 words)

	Media Matters - Sowell defends Wal-Mart, ignores workers' dependence on Medicaid, food stamps
		Sowell referenced a May 4 New York Times article that contained a quote from a Wal-Mart employee who said he was not earning a living wage.
		Sowell asked: "How is he living, if he is not making a living wage?" Several studies show that he might in fact be getting help through government assistance programs.
		Sowell argued that Wal-Mart stockholders should not have to subsidize higher wages for Wal-Mart workers "through lower earnings," but he apparently failed to recognize that taxpayers are subsidizing Wal-Mart stockholders and executives through the high levels of public assistance that are used by its employees compared with other retail workers.
	mediamatters.org /items/200505120009 (2467 words)

	Amazon.com: Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy: Books: Thomas Sowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sowell points out that social security is an intergenerational transfer, and that its feasibility depends on the ratio of workers to retirees.
		Sowell points out that poverty is misrepresented in the media, and that economic growth and changes in lifetime circumstances erase much of what is reported as poverty.
		Thomas Sowell is one of the most brilliant and articulate thinkers ever.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046508138X?v=glance (2110 words)

	Power Line: Thomas Sowell turns 75
		Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell is a remarkable man who has produced a distinguished body of work over a long career.
		Sowell's December 1975 review of the Galbraith book -- his first of several important pieces for Commentary -- is accessible via Commentary's digital archives here.
		Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite authors and columnists.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/010883.php (401 words)

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