Common Sense Becoming Scarcer Than Gold

That's why I mean no disrespect - quite the opposite - to Thomas Sowell when I say he has a firm grasp on the obvious. In times like these, when the intelligentsia fully lives up to Malcolm Muggeridge's definition as a class of people whose goal is to destroy intelligence, Sowell's clear thinking is like a blast of fresh air. Mark Landsbaum of the OC Register summarizes some of Sowell's key insights about "intellectuals" (H/T: Real Clear Politics).