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Dr. Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "Applied Economics" and "Black Rednecks and White Liberals."

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  • ‘Cooling out’ the voters

    From the time it took office, the Obama administration has sought to suppress the very concept of a “war on terror” or the terrorists’ war on us

  • Phony in Chief

    If you want to know what community organizers do, this is it — rub people’s emotions raw to hype their resentments.

  • Cheap politicians

    No doubt many, if not most, government officials are already paid more than they are worth. But the whole point of higher pay is to get better people to replace them.

  • Obama versus Obama

    There is a big contrast between Obama based on his rhetoric (“Obama 1″) and Obama based on his record (“Obama 2″).

  • An economic ‘plan’?

    Former President Clinton told the DNC that Obama has a plan to rescue the economy, and that Republicans –who stood in his way — have stopped him from getting the economy out of the doldrums.

  • Obama’s dreams

    As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama has made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas.

  • Risky business

    By passing laws to force insurance companies to cover things that have nothing to do with risk, politicians force up the cost of insurance.

  • ‘Issues’ or America?

    The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration, during the process of dealing with particular issues.

  • The Paul Ryan choice

    This election is a test, not just of the opposing candidates but of the voting public. If what they want are the hard facts about where the country is, and where it is heading, they cannot vote for more of the same for the next four years.

  • Sports versus politics

    It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics.