Politically correct zombies: Does anyone think at all these days?

Politically correct zombies: Does anyone think at all these days?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Some have said that we are living in a post-industrial era, while others have said that we are living in a post-racial era. But growing evidence suggests that we are living in a post-thinking era. Many people in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are staging angry protests against Israel’s […]

Amnesty lite: A look back at GOP establishment’s and Cantor’s disastrous defeat

Amnesty lite: A look back at GOP establishment’s and Cantor’s disastrous defeat

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Not since a 42-to-1 underdog named Buster Douglas knocked out undefeated heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in 1990 has there been an upset like economics professor Dave Brat defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary in Virginia. You couldn’t write a script like this for a movie […]

Playing political games with the nation’s future

Playing political games with the nation’s future

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell In a recent confrontation between protesters against the illegal flood of unaccompanied children into the United States and counter-protests by some Hispanic group, one man from the latter group said angrily, “We are as good as you are!” One of the things that make the history of clashes over […]

Iraq in retrospect: Taking names and keeping score . . .

Iraq in retrospect: Taking names and keeping score . . .

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell The news from Iraq that Islamic terrorists have now taken over cities that American troops liberated during the Iraq war must have left an especially bitter after-taste to Americans who lost a loved one who died taking one of those cities, or to a survivor who came back without […]

Unimpeachable: Can the nation survive this tenant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?

Unimpeachable: Can the nation survive this tenant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Pundits are pointing to President Barack Obama’s recent decline in public opinion polls, and saying that he may now become another “lame duck” president, unable to accomplish much during his final term in office. That has happened to other presidents. But it is extremely unlikely to happen to this […]