Posted on 05/05/2008 6:18:00 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
Sometimes unrelated events nevertheless tell a coherent story.
One newspaper story that caught my eye recently was about two high-powered schools in South Korea where Korean girls study 15 hours a day, preparing themselves for tests to get into elite colleges in the United States. Harvard, Yale and Princeton already have 34 students from those schools.
When a copy of the 50th anniversary report on members of the Harvard class of 1958 arrived in the mail recently, I thought back to one of my fellow students in that class who had worn a hole in the sole of his shoe but put a folded piece of newspaper in his shoe to cover the hole, rather than tell his parents.
He realized that they would buy him a new pair of shoes if they knew — and he also realized that they could not afford it.
He went on to become a professor at several well-known medical schools and to have various achievements and honors over the years.
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Title of the article sez it all!
Short and sweet.
He is wonderful, simply wonderful.
Sowell never fails to remind me of the value and meaning in being blessed to be born American, and my responsibility to be a good citizen.
Dr. Sowell for VP!
Hell with VP, Sowell for P!
Sowell speaks to my soul. :-p
Obama did a complete makeover, now portraying himself as a healer of divisions.
We don’t need people like either Jeremiah Wright or Barack Obama to take us backward.
BUMP to that!
Too bad he’s not on the ballot in November.
Why not Thomas Sowell, instead of Osama Hussein Obama?
This man is a true American hero and precisely the kind of man that Republicans need to get back to our roots.
Thanks for the ping Jaz. Dr. Sowell always is worth the read.
You want to know what I think? Read Thomas Sowell, and you’ll know!
With the exception that I would love to see Sowell comment on a certain blog by a professor (Steve Boriss) in St. Louis . . . http://thefutureofnews.com/vision-future/
You will not be surprised to learn that Boriss quotes Sowell very approvingly . . .
Thomas Sowell may have coined a new acronym for leftists == SAL Self-Aggrandizing Left[ists].
his concluding paragraphs:
In the real world, a sense of grievance or entitlement, as a result of the mistreatment of your ancestors, is not likely to get you very far with people who are too busy dealing with current economic realities to spend much time thinking about their own ancestors, much less other people’s ancestors.
Another seemingly unrelated experience was being in a crowd at a graveside in a Jewish cemetery last week. That crowd included people who were black, white, Asian, Catholic, Jewish and no doubt others. This country has come a long way, just in my lifetime.
We don’t need people like either Jeremiah Wright or Barack Obama to take us backward.
The time is long overdue to stop gullibly accepting the left’s vision of itself as idealistic, rather than self-aggrandizing.
Brilliant!!!
Another winner from the embodiment of common sense.
(another gas bag explodes!)
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