QotD: Connect the dots...la, la-la, la-la

Thomas Sowell. Economist (PhD-type). Columnist. Two phenomenal musings that I'll let speak for themselves (you can read his whole piece here).

#1) The free market and government meddling:

"...what is called “the market” consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called “social justice” is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong."

#2) The company you keep:

"Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Moammar Qaddafi, and Vladimir Putin have all praised Barack Obama. When enemies of freedom and democracy praise your president, what are you to think? When you add to this Barack Obama’s many previous years of associations and alliances with people who hate America — Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, and so on — at what point do you stop denying the obvious and start to connect the dots?"

I suspect we'll be obvious deniers for another seven years. Sigh.