Walter E. Williams Articles

We Are the Idiots

sjones — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:13:47 +0000

Dr.

Hating America

sjones — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:51:17 +0000

Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts.

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Honest Examination of Race

sjones — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:57:14 +0000

One definition given for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; it might also be a definition of stupidity.

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Liberal Suffering and Confusion

sjones — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:45:56 +0000

The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example, with equal pay for equal work.

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Academic Cesspools

sjones — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:37:44 +0000

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Price Versus Cost

sjones — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:30:54 +0000

Suppose you buy a gallon of gas for $3. How much did it cost you? You say, "Williams, that's a silly question.

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Black Unemployment

sjones — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:25:38 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation "would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent." Black

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Minority Student Needs

sjones — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:40:32 +0000

Professor Craig Frisby is on the faculty of University of Missouri's Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology.

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Are We Equal?

sjones — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:21:06 +0000

Are women equal to men? Are Jews equal to gentiles? Are blacks equal to Italians, Irish, Polish and other white people?

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Intellectuals and Race

sjones — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:26:49 +0000

After reading Dr.

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Educational Rot

sjones — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:06:26 +0000

American education is in a sorry state of affairs, and there's enough blame for all participants to have their fair share.

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Mandated Wages and Discrimination

sjones — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:22:47 +0000

Let's work through an example. Suppose 100 yards of fence could be built using one of two techniques.

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Higher Minimum Wages

sjones — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:35:28 +0000

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase.

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Abraham Lincoln

sjones — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:30:36 +0000

Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been a box-office hit and nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrayed our 16th pres

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It's Cultural Deviancy, Not Guns

sjones — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:53:01 +0000

There's a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called to a department store to stop a burglary in progress.

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Women in Combat

sjones — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:48:41 +0000

A senior Defense Department official said the ban on women in combat should be lifted because the military's goal is "to provide a level, gender-neutral playing field." I'd like to think the goa

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Official Lies

sjones — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:47:11 +0000

Let's expose presidential prevarication.

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Experts Aren't Deities

sjones — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:25:39 +0000

Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived.

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Are Guns the Problem?

sjones — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:50:36 +0000

When I attended primary and secondary school — during the 1940s and '50s — one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why?

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Dishonest Educators

sjones — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:55:06 +0000

Nearly two years ago, U.S.

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Why the 2nd Amendment

sjones — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:48:36 +0000

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ...

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Middle East Democracy

sjones — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:17:52 +0000

Here's the first paragraph of my last year's column "Democracy Is Impossible":

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A Hundred Percent of Nothing

sjones — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:40:06 +0000

JoAnn Watson, Detroit city council member, said, "Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo." In other words, President Oba

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Our Government-Created Financial Crisis

sjones — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:25:21 +0000

Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out?

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Future Generations

sjones — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:59:40 +0000

Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans?

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