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Walter E. Williams is a columnist for The Washington Examiner. His column is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

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  • Organ transplant policy needs rethinking

    By Walter Williams | 06/11/13 06:00 PM

    Last week a federal judge ordered Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, to be moved to the adult lung transplant list. That gives her a better chance of receiving a potentially lifesaving transplant....

  • Walter Williams: Lawmakers rely on people with bad ideas

    By Walter Williams | 06/04/13 09:15 PM

    In order to understand the liberal and progressive agenda, one must know something about their world vision and values. Let's examine some of the evidence. Why the 1970s struggle to ban DDT? Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, wrote in a 1990 biographical essay: "My own...

  • Walter Williams: Americans deserve the IRS

    By Walter Williams | 05/28/13 07:20 PM

    Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it. Since the 1791 ratification of our Constitution, until well into the 1920s, federal spending as a...

  • Walter Williams: We are the idiots for listening to eco-alarmism

    By Walter Williams | 05/21/13 08:25 PM

    Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (9/5/2012), wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use. The DDT ban was...

  • Walter Williams: College professors can teach you to hate America

    By Walter Williams | 05/14/13 05:25 PM

    Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let's...

  • Walter Williams: Liberal leaders have not offered an honest examination of race

    By Walter Williams | 05/07/13 05:25 PM

    One definition given for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; it might also be a definition of stupidity. Let's look at some cities where large percentages of black Americans live under poor conditions. Experiencing a violent crime rate of 2,137...



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