QotD: Thomas Sowell

Sorry to go "Quote of the Day" on you two days in a row, but when Dr. Thomas Sowell dispenses his "random thoughts on the passing scene," I always find some 24-karat gems.  Consider,

It was fascinating to see Barack Obama warning us not to leap to conclusions about the killings at Fort Hood, Texas — after the way he leaped to conclusions over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, when he knew less about the facts than we already know about the massacre at Fort Hood.

With regard to Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan.  No leaping was required.  He left a trail of 13 bodies.  And still we're asked to not connect the dots (here).

I wish I had come up with this one.  Prettier than a well-turned double play.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

To close, a creepy observation about the current state of Congress.

One of the few advantages to the country in having Congress overwhelmingly in the hands of one party is that the lack of need to compromise lets the leaders of that party reveal themselves for what they are — in this case, people with unbounded arrogance and utter contempt for the right of ordinary people to live their lives as they see fit, much less the right to know as citizens what laws are going to be passed by their government. The question is whether voters will remember on election day in 2010.

Let's hope so.

You can read the rest of his ruminations here.  In the meantime, let's see if I can come up with a coherent thought.