How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on TV shows adults acting like children?
* Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of President Obama’s claims about “creating jobs” with one plain and inescapable fact — “there hasn’t been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office.” However many jobs were created in this administration, more have been lost.
* One of the most foolish, and most dangerous, things one can do is to take love for granted, instead of nurturing it and safeguarding it as the prize jewel of one’s life.
* If you believe Obama and others who oppose what they call “tax cuts for the rich,” you might want to consider what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” For some documented facts about tax rates and tax revenues, there is a box titled “Tax Cuts” on my web site (tsowell.com). Click on it.
* In baseball, switch hitters are said to have an advantage. But the highest lifetime batting average by a switch hitter (.319 by Frankie Frisch) is more than 30 points lower than the highest batting average for either left-handed hitters or right-handed hitters. Single season? The highest batting average by a switch hitter (.365 by Mickey Mantle) is more than 50 points lower.