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Why the left excuses communist horrors
Wednesday November 18, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being master of ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington, D.C., that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Founded in 1981, the Atlas Foundation assists the formation of free-market think tanks ...

Constitutional contempt
Wednesday November 11, 2009 by Walter Williams -- At Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Oct. 29 press conference, a CNS News reporter asked, "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" Speaker Pelosi responded, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" The reporter said, " ...

What really caused the Great Depression
Wednesday November 04, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Steve H. Hanke is a professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine. Professor Hanke starts off his "Hu versus Sarkozy" article (Globe Asia, November 2009) ...

Obama should have rejected Nobel
Wednesday October 28, 2009 by Walter Williams -- According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who: "during the preceding year, shall have done … the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congre ...

Why America is exceptional
Wednesday October 21, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We've turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most prosperous nation in mankind's entire history. Throughout our history, the United ...

University idiots
Wednesday October 14, 2009 by Walter Williams -- College education is a costly proposition with tuition, room and board at some colleges topping $50,000 a year. Is it worth it? Increasing evidence suggests that it's not. Since the 1960s, academic achievement scores have plummeted, but college student grade point averages (GPA) have skyrocketed. ...

How 'social justice' leads to mass murder
Wednesday October 07, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health-care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953), said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th ...

Is disagreement with Obama racism?
Wednesday September 30, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Former President Jimmy Carter said, "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man." That's from a man who earlier referred to Obama as "This black boy" on the Jim Lehrer "News Hour." New York Time ...

Michael Moore's latest propaganda
Wednesday September 23, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Michael Moore's new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," will be released next month. I've neither seen nor read reviews of the film, except for a short piece in the London Telegraph (Sept. 6) titled "Michael Moore film calls capitalism evil." Aware of Michael Moore's previous films, I know that it ...

Obama betrays blacks in D.C.
Wednesday September 16, 2009 by Walter Williams -- Instead of President Obama addressing school students across the nation, he might have accomplished more by focusing his attention on the educational rot in schools in the nation's capital. The American Legislative Exchange Council recently came out with its 15th edition of "Report Card on Americ ...

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Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

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