Fact-Free Liberals: Parts I - IV

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Sadly, many "moderate" Republicans & Independents fall into the fact-free leftist liberal ways of thinking too...


Fact-Free Liberals: Part I
Thomas Sowell | Jan 21, 2014

Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words -- "educated," "smart" and "ignorant." Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come out of our most prestigious colleges and universities today.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/01/21/factfree-liberals-n1781568


Fact-Free Liberals: Part II
Thomas Sowell | Jan 22, 2014

Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually control rents and gun control laws actually control guns.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/01/22/factfree-liberals-part-ii-n1781570

Fact-Free Liberals: Part III
Thomas Sowell | Jan 23, 2014

Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the "war on poverty," we can expect many comments and commemorations of this landmark legislation in the development of the American welfare state.

The actual signing of the "war on poverty" legislation took place in August 1964, so the 50th anniversary is some months away. But there have already been statements in the media and in politics proclaiming that this vast and costly array of anti-poverty programs "worked."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/01/23/factfree-liberals-part-iii-n1781571

Fact-Free Liberals: Part IV
Thomas Sowell | Jan 24, 2014

One of the things that attracted me to the political left, as a young man, was a belief that leftists were for "the people." Fortunately, I was also very interested in the history of ideas -- and years of research in that field repeatedly brought out the inescapable fact that many leading thinkers on the left had only contempt for "the people."

That has been true from the 18th century to the present moment. Even more surprising, I discovered over the years that leading thinkers on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum had more respect for ordinary people than people on the left who spoke in their name.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/01/24/factfree-liberals-part-iv-n1781573