(ThyBlackMan.com) As a people, in particular a nation – we some dumb folk. I really wanted to use another word that conjoins a female parent with the act of copulation, but that is beside the point. I know I have been harping on the inadequacy of the general populous in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Milton Friedman, as one of the pre-eminent fiscal conservatives of the 20th century, was perhaps also one of the most eloquent voices in support of libertarian values as moral values. Alongside Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Thomas Sowell, and others, Friedman opposed programs like affirmative action, minimum wage laws, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” If eight years have passed and you are looking at the same skyline and infrastructure, surely it’s time you looked at the people you have as mayor, member of Congress and city and or ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Happiness is the only thing we pursue for its own sake. Everything else, we pursue because we think it will make us happier. Or at the very least, less sad. But research shows that we are actually poor predictors of what will make us happy. In fact, you might ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I remember being in 11th grade and seeing two young girls get into a fight with one another.  This was no ordinary fight, since the two girls had once been inseparable.  When you saw one, you saw the other.  Then, for whatever reason, a boy came between the two ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As a teen in the 1960s, I idolized Jim, my slightly older street smart cousin who lived in a tough area of Baltimore. Murders were common at the bar on the corner from his home. I was Jim’s nerdy naïve preacher’s kid cousin who visited from suburbia. Sleepovers at ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think of Mali, or any part of West Africa, I often say to myself, I had a ball when I was there in 1992 and 1993. At the time I was living in Owerri, in Southeastern Nigeria. And if you have ever seen the Sahel, what sticks ...