TWENTY FIVE best quotes from Thomas Sowell. My top three:

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.

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THE WASHINGTON POST'S Eugene Robinson: "... the extreme language we hear from the far right is qualitatively different from the extreme language we hear from the far left — and far more damaging to the ties that bind us as a nation."

Robinson must have had his hands over his ears during the entire Bush administration.

CAPITALISM WORKS.

From this post by Daniel J. Mitchell of the Cato Institute

THE GUTFIELD RULE: To make schools 'fair', students should redistribute their grades. Then maybe Obama would consider releasing his college transcripts.

EXCELLENT! Supreme Court signals support for Arizona immigration law provision.

Immigration law is clearly the province of Congress, but states should have a role - if not a primary role - in enforcement.

WHY THERE SHOULD BE a hunting season for lawyers (no bag limits).

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: "[N]oble ends justify the tawdry means." It should be 'ignoble' ends, and the word 'tawdry' is far too kind.