Media Dishonesty and Race by Dr Walt Williams
When NBC’s “Today” show played the audio of George Zimmerman’s call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.” What Zimmerman actually said was: “This guy looks like he’s More...
Equality or Inequality – Dr Walt Williams
Rick Santorum’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club stirred a bit of controversy when he said: Photo/Donkey Hokey donkeyhokey@wordpress “I’m not about equality of result when it comes to income More...
Obama’s Racial Politics by Dr Walt Williams
There’s been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama’s domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened More...
Should the rich be condemned? by Dr Walt E Williams
Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, the phonograph, the DC motor and other items in everyday use and became wealthy by doing so. Thomas Watson founded IBM and became rich through his company’s contribution More...
Poverty in America? op-ed by Dr Walt Williams
According to CBS News, “the number of people in the U.S. living in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year in a row, representing the largest number of Americans in poverty in the 52 years since such estimates More...
Gov. Perry’s Right About Social Security by Dr. Walt E. Williams
During the recent GOP presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that Social Security is a “monstrous lie” and a “Ponzi scheme.” More and more people are coming to see that Social Security More...
Blacks and Politics by Dr. Walter Williams
At one of last month’s Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored “job fairs,” Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: “This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these More...
America’s New Racists: Op-Ed by Dr. Walter Williams
The late South African economist William Hutt, in his 1964 book, “The Economics of the Colour Bar,” said that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims More...
Our Moral Dilemma – Dr. Walter E. Williams
Most of our nation’s problems are a direct result of our being immune, hostile or indifferent to several moral questions. Let’s start out with the simple and move to the more complex. Or, stated another More...
Common Sense vs Nonsense: Op-ed by Dr. Walter E. Williams
William J. McGee, the consumer advocate on the Department of Transportation’s Future of Aviation Advisory Committee wrote “Forcing the F.A.A. to Fly Blind” in The New York Times (April 9, 2011), More...
