August 11th, 2010
OK, so you stumbled upon this blog in your search to find out just what is going on in America today. You know that what you are seeing everyday is not your run of the mill American political vitriolics. If you are 60 years of age or older, you know that the Cuban Missile Crisis would only be a chapter in a book of traumatic events. If you are a lot younger, you are rightfully worry about your future. Who are the culprits? Is this as serious as it appears and if it is, what can we do? What tenets of liberty did we pervert, what clues to tyranny did we miss? You sat on the sidelines too long and now want only to carry something for someone, pass the water buckets, help tug on a line, anything to help!
Thomas Sowell, who I have written extensively on in this blog, has come out with yet another book and what it can do is defrost the front and rear windows for you to see where we are going and where we have been. Dismantling America is a collection of his writings, each one short, profound, clear and invasive. Invasive in that it prods, opens and washes out the infection of a postmodern, politically correct cultural malaise. You'll read his commentary and shake your head, continue into the book and have to stand up and take deep breathes, finish it and look in the mirror and say "Let's roll!"
It is Thomas Sowell's wisdom that sees through the fog but he takes advantage of the wisdom of many others along the way. An anecdote on Abraham Lincoln concerning rhetoric today is Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said "five," Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. "The fact that you called the tail a leg does not make it a leg." Sowell points out that one can be informed and uninformed, but can also be misinformed and his columns are an antidote to the last two of these.
He completed this book with some Random Thoughts. Here are a few of them for you:
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen-written in blood- from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines.
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
I am so old that I can remember a Democrat, at his inauguration as President, say of our enemies: "We dare not tempt them with weakness."
This book is a primer of sorts but don't let that turn you away for it is also systematics in that it ties together that which the radical Left has torn asunder, that being restraint in government, freedom in economics, responsibility in culture, vigilance in politics and necessity in law.
OK, so you stumbled upon this blog in your search to find out just what is going on in America today. You know that what you are seeing everyday is not your run of the mill American political vitriolics. If you are 60 years of age or older, you know that the Cuban Missile Crisis would only be a chapter in a book of traumatic events. If you are a lot younger, you are rightfully worry about your future. Who are the culprits? Is this as serious as it appears and if it is, what can we do? What tenets of liberty did we pervert, what clues to tyranny did we miss? You sat on the sidelines too long and now want only to carry something for someone, pass the water buckets, help tug on a line, anything to help!
Thomas Sowell, who I have written extensively on in this blog, has come out with yet another book and what it can do is defrost the front and rear windows for you to see where we are going and where we have been. Dismantling America is a collection of his writings, each one short, profound, clear and invasive. Invasive in that it prods, opens and washes out the infection of a postmodern, politically correct cultural malaise. You'll read his commentary and shake your head, continue into the book and have to stand up and take deep breathes, finish it and look in the mirror and say "Let's roll!"
It is Thomas Sowell's wisdom that sees through the fog but he takes advantage of the wisdom of many others along the way. An anecdote on Abraham Lincoln concerning rhetoric today is Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said "five," Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. "The fact that you called the tail a leg does not make it a leg." Sowell points out that one can be informed and uninformed, but can also be misinformed and his columns are an antidote to the last two of these.
He completed this book with some Random Thoughts. Here are a few of them for you:
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen-written in blood- from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines.
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
I am so old that I can remember a Democrat, at his inauguration as President, say of our enemies: "We dare not tempt them with weakness."
This book is a primer of sorts but don't let that turn you away for it is also systematics in that it ties together that which the radical Left has torn asunder, that being restraint in government, freedom in economics, responsibility in culture, vigilance in politics and necessity in law.
