ARE FACTS OBSOLETE?

By Thomas Sowell

In an election campaign in which not only young liberals, but also some people who are neither young nor liberals, seem absolutely mesmerized by the skilled rhetoric of Barack Obama, facts have receded even further into the background than usual.


As the hypnotic mantra of "change" is repeated endlessly, few people even raise the question of whether what few specifics we hear represent any real change, much less a change for the better.


Raising taxes, increasing government spending and demonizing business? That is straight out of the New Deal of the 1930s. (Read more)