Sowell: A Year of Anniversaries

Creators Syndicate ^ | December 30, 2014 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

2014 has been a year of anniversaries. It was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War — a war which many at the time saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a Second World War a generation later.

2014 was also the 70th anniversary of the fateful landing at Normandy that marked the beginning of the end of World War II.

2014 was likewise the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that marked the beginning of the end of racial segregation, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and of the beginning of President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty" programs.

Anniversaries are opportunities to look back at historic turning points, compare the rhetoric of the time with the reality that we now know unfolded — and to learn hard lessons about the difference between rhetoric and reality for our own time.

A hundred years ago, the President of the United States was Woodrow Wilson — the first president to openly claim that the Constitution of the United States was outdated, and that courts should erode the limits that the Constitution placed on the federal government.

Today, after a hundred years of courts' eroding the Constitution's protections of personal freedom, we now have a president who has taken us dangerously close to one-man rule, unilaterally changing laws passed by Congress and refusing to enforce other laws — on immigration especially.

[jazusamo]

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[Red Badger]

Constitution? What is that?.............Seems like I heard about it in grade school, but that was a long time ago....................

[tet68]

the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and of the beginning of President Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty” programs.

Obama should declare this “war” over too.

End the War on poverty NOW!
Hands up! I’m looted!

[jazusamo]

Amen...It should have ended when that crook didn’t run for reelection.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

A hundred years ago, the President of the United States was Woodrow Wilson — the first president to openly claim that the Constitution of the United States was outdated, and that courts should erode the limits that the Constitution placed on the federal government.

Woodrow Wilson was the worst president and the most evil man to be president, period. He would have been a dictator if he could have gotten away with it.

[oldbrowser]

Déjà vu over and over again.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"It should be noted that, after the charismatic Woodrow Wilson, none of the next three presidents was the least bit charismatic. Let us hope that the voters today have also learned how dangerous charisma and glib rhetoric can be — and what a childish self-indulgence it is to choose a president on the basis of symbolism. Woodrow Wilson was the first Southerner to be elected president since the Civil War, as Obama was to become the first black president. But neither fact qualified them to wield the enormous powers of the presidency. Nor will being the first woman president, the first Hispanic president or other such firsts."

Some might think that favorable to a Ted Cruz candidacy . . . .

[jazusamo]

In my view Cruz is more than qualified.

Go Ted Cruz!

[george76]

Did you post this ?

When the president doesn’t respect the law, what happens?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/when-the-president-doesnt-respect-the-law-what-happens/article/2558003

[jazusamo]

Yes, my FRiend and thanks. It’s posted as Random Thoughts.

Happy New Year to you and yours and all.

[george76]

Happy New Year to you and yours

[buffyt]

I have said for years that he is the smartest person on earth. I have most of his books, but lack the wisdom to read and understand everything he has put down in word. Such a brilliant mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[buffyt]

Ted Cruz is my senator and I HOPE he will soon be my next president! Brilliant man.

[windsorknot]

Ted Cruz.....I HOPE he will soon be my next president!

That would be a quantum leap.