Thomas Sowell

The British troops who escaped from Dunkirk came back to France four years later, as part of the massive invasion forces that stormed the beaches at Normandy, liberated France and pushed on into Germany for the final defeat of the Nazi regime. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Wars, like politics, are about winning, not symbolic gestures

Thomas Sowell · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures while speaking during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 6. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Republican Party needs to master the message

Thomas Sowell · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz judged his Republican colleagues harshly after he forced the Senate to meet the 60-vote threshold to pass a clean debt ceiling measure. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Cruz control not the best way to fight Obama

Thomas Sowell · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

With American forces withdrawing from Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai has tried to get on the good side of the Taliban. (AP File)

Afghan prisoner release another galling betrayal

Thomas Sowell · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court at the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Random thoughts on money, power, sex and more

Thomas Sowell · February 10, 2014 5:00 am

The border wall stands in Tijuana, Mexico. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

On immigration, Republicans rescue Democrats but fail the country

Thomas Sowell · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

One of the problems with so many discussions of income and wealth is that the intelligentsia are so obsessed with the money that people receive that they give little or no attention to what causes money to be paid to them, in the first place.

The income inequality bogeyman

Thomas Sowell · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

The visceral hostility toward Sarah Palin by present-day liberals, and the gutter level to which some descend in expressing it, is just one sign of a mindset on the Left that goes back more than two centuries.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Spencer Weiner, File)

The Left has a vision, not facts

Thomas Sowell · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Jan. 8, 1964. Speaking in the House of Representatives, the chief executive said one of his aims was "unconditional war on poverty in America." (AP Photo)

The ‘war on poverty’ made the problem worse

Thomas Sowell · January 22, 2014 5:00 am

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Words carry more weight than facts to liberals

Thomas Sowell · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows that President Obama's job approval rating has reached a new low: 41 percent. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama and liberals long on rhetoric, short on facts

Thomas Sowell · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

If there is one thing that people all across the ideological spectrum should be able to agree on, it is that better education is desperately needed by black youngsters, especially in the ghettoes. But Attorney General Eric Holder thinks he knows betterÃÂ than the thousands of people who run public schools across the country what kinds of sanctions are necessary to preserve some semblance of order in the classrooms so that hoodlums do not make the education of their classmates impossible. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Politics wins out over education in Eric Holder’s new guidelines for school discipline

Thomas Sowell · January 14, 2014 5:00 am