Thomas Sowell’s “Random thoughts, from Obama’s ‘allies’ to pro sports” in his Oct. 28 column makes one suspicious of his thinking. Yes, I, too, have often wondered why a baseball manager pulls an obviously effective starter late in a game. For all the rest of his material, it makes me wonder why The Columbian bothers publishing this guy’s stuff.
He’s concerned about Democrats voting 90 percent of the time for the president’s agenda. I’m far more concerned about Republicans, including our own congresswoman, voting lockstep with the instructions of Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, shutting down the government, obstructing virtually everything that even came close to making Obama look good.
Sowell’s vague connection between “exalting certain propositions into axioms” and apparently contending that global warming falls into that category is ludicrous. Placing quotations marks around the words “global warming” implies that he doesn’t think it exists.
But the topper he saved for last, saying Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, has “shown substance and guts.” Sheer nonsense. Walker’s attempts to destroy the unions of public employees such as police, firefighters and teachers is an attack on the heart of middle-class Americans. For Sowell to then endorse Walker as a “far better” Republican presidential candidate … again, ludicrous.
