Moe at Occam’s Toothbruth forwarded me these Random Thoughts from Thomas Sowell. Any article that mentions the seminal “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer starts out with two thumbs up. I liked this one:

There are basically only two ways of reducing a deficit -- cut spending or collect more taxes. When you see liberals in politics and in the media going ballistic about the deficit, you know that they are not thinking about cutting spending.

Do they ever?