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Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« on: December 27, 2016, 03:48:51 am »
Dr. Thomas Sowell
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December 27, 2016

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Even the best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at it so long.

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Re: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2016, 03:53:40 am »
Well done Sir.  Thank you and enjoy your remaining time.
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Re: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2016, 03:56:26 am »
3.5 out of every 4 years he wrote awesome conservative commentary before going establishment shill in the months before Presidential elections.
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Re: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2016, 01:46:03 pm »
Damn.

That is one thinker I am going to miss badly.
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Re: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2016, 01:58:35 pm »
One of the more well-deserved retirements.
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Re: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2016, 02:05:23 pm »
Quote from: EC on December 27, 2016, 01:46:03 pm
Damn.

That is one thinker I am going to miss badly.

Indeed!  And I wonder how long his bud Walter Williams will continue.
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Re: Dr. Thomas Sowell: Farewell
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2016, 04:46:24 pm »
This is a tough one. I've been a huge Thomas Sowell fan for forty years since I saw him on W. F. Buckley's "Firing Line" on public tv.  I've also read several of his books.  He was far more direct in his thoughts and explanations than someone like George Will who writes many times in a somewhat confusing style.
Sowell was one the few black writers who refused to blame America for black failure.
But he was not a black writer...he was a pro-American writer who happened to be black.
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