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Walter E. Williams
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Massachusetts politics
Stories published
16
Based in
Boston, MA
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Recent Stories

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Majority rule equals tyranny

It is alleged that Hillary Clinton won a popular vote majority. Therefore, if the nation were not burdened with the antiquated Electoral…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Freedom to work

If a person wants to go into business as a taxicab owner, what requirements should be imposed to protect the public? The…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Is free trade causing job loss?

International trade figures heavily in the presidential race. Presidential candidate Donald Trump said, "Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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The decline of civility

One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I'd…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Scalia School of Law

George Mason University School of Law has just been renamed the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Fiddling away black futures

Most black politicians, ministers, civil rights advocates and professionals support Hillary Clinton's quest for the presidency. Whoever becomes the next…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Campus lunacy, part II

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article titled…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Campus lunacy

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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What’s a ‘fair share’?

Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as the rich, to pay their fair share of income taxes.

· · Updated a month ago · 3 min read
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Trade deficit angst

Let's look at the political angst over trade deficits.  There cannot be a trade deficit in a true economic sense.…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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On March 16, honor Madison

George Washington, our first president, is probably our greatest and most decent statesman. We celebrate Washington's Birthday each February. But…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Sloppy language and thinking

George Orwell said, "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." Gore Vidal elaborated on that insight, saying,…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Minimum wage dishonesty

Michael Hiltzik, a columnist and Los Angeles Times reporter, wrote an article titled "Does a minimum wage raise hurt workers? Economists say:

· · Updated a month ago · 3 min read
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Attacking our founders

Many of my columns speak highly of the wisdom of our nation's founders. Every once in a while, I receive…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read
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Academic fascism

George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to…

· · Updated a year ago · 3 min read