Thomas Sowell - Common Sense with Paul Jacob

Thomas Sowell

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996.

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

The Election Addiction Fiction
Poor Willie Brown. Ever since California slapped term limits on …
Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
Are people in Arkansas as stupid as their legislators think? Last …
The Yellow and White Lines
If I’ve heard it one million times, I’ve heard it …
Term Limits for Cuba?
You can’t cheer some victories — they just don’t seem real. I mean, …
Nineteen Seconds and Counting
We witnessed the epitome of uber-experienced Washington, last week, when …

Thought of the Day

Men are the dominant sign-using animals. Animals other than man do, of course, respond to certain things as signs of something else, but such signs do not attain the complexity and elaboration which is found in human speech, writing, art, testing devices, medical diagnosis, and signaling instruments. Science and signs are inseparably interconnected, since science both presents men with more reliable signs and embodies its results in systems of signs. Human civilization is dependent upon signs and systems of signs, and the human mind is inseparable from the functioning of signs — if indeed mentality is not to be identified with such functioning.
Charles W. Morris, “Foundations of the Theory of Signs,” in International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. 1, No. 2; Reprinted 1971.

— Charles W. Morris

Memes (refresh for more)

Edmund Burke — “The people never give up their liberties but…”
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” …
A simple question…
Government is a dangerous servant… as the American left has recently discovered. …
An Argument in Favor of Term Limits
“As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot …
Just Imagine
Imagine stealing everyone’s money and still being $36 trillion in debt.
The “Give Away”
Has the mugger given you a present of your stuff by …

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