http://www.deseretnews.com/home/ Walter E. Williams en-us Copyright 2013, Deseret News Publishing Company Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:01 MDT Sun, 26 May 2013 00:22:15 MDT Newspapers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765582736/Sorry-but-Social-Security-is-just-another-government-handout.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765582736/Sorry-but-Social-Security-is-just-another-government-handout.html Some readers protested my counting Social Security among government handout programs that can be described as Congress'... Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765580966/Immoral-beyond-redemption.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765580966/Immoral-beyond-redemption.html Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: "Only a virtuous people are capable of... Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765576281/Regardless-of-high-court-ruling-states-should-defy-Obamacare.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765576281/Regardless-of-high-court-ruling-states-should-defy-Obamacare.html Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Moral people can't rely solely on the... Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765571260/What-is-fair-about-47-percent-in-US-paying-no-federal-taxes.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765571260/What-is-fair-about-47-percent-in-US-paying-no-federal-taxes.html The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman's job of keeping track of how much we're paying in taxes and who's... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765569478/Good-economists-are-not-the-kind-of-folks-you-want-to-be-around.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765569478/Good-economists-are-not-the-kind-of-folks-you-want-to-be-around.html It's difficult to be a good economist and simultaneously be perceived as compassionate. To be a good economist, one has to... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765567620/Race-hustlers-stacking-kindling-waiting-for-blaze.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765567620/Race-hustlers-stacking-kindling-waiting-for-blaze.html One doesn't have to be a liberal, conservative, Democrat or Republican to see the danger posed by America's race hustlers,... Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765561570/Democratic-agenda-has-not-been-a-friend-to-black-Americans.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765561570/Democratic-agenda-has-not-been-a-friend-to-black-Americans.html It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black... Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765555134/Freedom-needs-to-come-before-equality-or-you-will-get-neither.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765555134/Freedom-needs-to-come-before-equality-or-you-will-get-neither.html Rick Santorum's speech at the Detroit Economic Club stirred a bit of controversy when he said: "I'm not about equality of... Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765552893/To-compete-globally-American-students-must-learn-to-do-math.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765552893/To-compete-globally-American-students-must-learn-to-do-math.html If one manages to graduate from high school without the rudiments of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, there are certain... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765550887/Why-are-inner-city-schools-more-violent-today-than-in-the-past.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765550887/Why-are-inner-city-schools-more-violent-today-than-in-the-past.html The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the... Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 MST