SOWELL: Stop Insulting Our Intelligence!

Thomas Sowell is not impressed with the current immigration bill or the arguments used to support it. He writes:

The immigration bill before Congress has some of the most serious consequences for the future of this country. Yet it is not being discussed seriously by most politicians or most of the media. Instead, it is being discussed in a series of glib talking points that insult our intelligence.

He should know, because he’s got a lot of intelligence to insult. For the rest of us mortals, though, it can be handy to have a scorecard listing the ways our intelligence is being insulted, and Sowell provides a particularly good one.

HOW IS YOUR INTELLIGENCE BEING INSULTED IN THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE?

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

4 thoughts on “SOWELL: Stop Insulting Our Intelligence!”

  1. You actually got the name wrong. The article is by Victor Davis Hanson, not Thomas Sowell.

  2. Yeah, that’s one of the dangers of tabbed browsing. Sometimes I grab the wrong tab when I’m pasting in a link. I have’t even read the Hanson article yet.
    Thanks for the catch. Link fixed!

  3. It’s not insulting to disagree about the practical application of complex immigration reform.

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