Time for Thorns

The entire interview  is interesting,  but his comments about the CBO are a highlight.   I don’t think the Congressional Budget Office should necessarily be abolished, but its standard practices certainly need to be changed.

Its 10-year scoring rule is what effectively halved the true cost of ObamaCare,  so the real cost,  as many of us yelled at the time,  is nearly $1.8 billion —  twice what was advertised.

Thomas Sowell is one of the great thinkers of our time,  and here he turns  his formidable brain to Newt Gingrich.  In the process he lays out with sickening clarity the faults in the policies and perceptions of His Oneness.

That’s what Thomas Sowell  says about  the Boehner plan,  and when Sowell talks,  I listen.

Thomas Sowell nails  it here.

I adore Thomas Sowell’s random thoughts  –  reading them is like paging through miniature books on different subjects.   In this selection,  he sums up Washington thinking on jobs and tells you why it’s so wrong  — all in a single paragraph consisting of two sentences.

Compare this to His Oneness without a teleprompter and remember that concise words flow from an orderly,  disciplined mind.   What Obama gives us is undisciplined,  disorderly froth spilling over lofty-sounding,  but essentially meaningless,  New Age babble  mixed with Orwellian doublespeak.

Thomas Sowell,  as always,  puts the  matter succinctly.    His Oneness and assorted Democratic flacks are  saying the economy is improving.   The bad news about it is,  of course,   “unexpected.”

There are  plenty who think we’re heading for a  double-dip recession.    Housing is a debacle.    Cities are  selling off their assets to raise funds.    Washington continues its own form  of madness.   As Michael Tanner points out,  the deficit is merely  a symptom of the disease.

The last installment of the Uncommon Knowledge series with Dr. Sowell is  now available,  so  here’s a link to the series.

If you have time for only one segment,  make it Chapter 4,  wherein he states that if the Obama agenda is not stopped in the November 2010 elections,  he doesn’t know how it will ever be stopped.

If that’s not enough,  read what Robert Ringer  says about the coming economic judgment day.

Thomas Sowell has  a column on the debt which you must read.    And do click on the link to the Congressional Budget Office report  —  as a former Fed chair says,  the report is written to a level of simplicity which even a Congressman can comprehend.

Here’s another column by Dr. Sowell, in which he explains how His oneness is  taking us all for fools.

Peter Robinson has a new Uncommon Knowledge series with Dr. Sowell,  and 4 of the 5 parts are available  here.

If you read nothing else this week,   read  this piece by Thomas Sowell on the limits of power.   His Oneness recognizes none,  because he has no experience in the real world.    That,  and he thinks We the People will continue swallowing his fluffy rhetoric while taking no notice of what he actually does.

Steve McCann picks up on the  big-government goals of His Oneness — more proof that Obama knows little of history,  and understands even less.

The final chapter,  in which the master  explains how the demand for public intellectuals is largely manufactured by the public intellectuals themselves,  is  here.