Walter E. Williams https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:14:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Walter E. Williams https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Leftist Effort to Revise American History https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/08/leftist-effort-to-revise-american-history/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:00:44 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=14849 Written by Walter E. Williams

There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant’s first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from Soviet history by renaming cities — such as the Imperial capital of St. Petersburg to Petrograd and Leningrad and Stalingrad — and eradicating memories of czarist rule.… Continue Reading

]]> 14849 Why People Keep Falling for Socialism, Despite the Evidence https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/why-people-keep-falling-for-socialism-despite-the-evidence/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:04:32 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=9603 Written by Walter E. Williams

Poverty is no mystery, and it’s easily avoidable.

The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For a two-person household, it was $16,072, and for a four-person household, it was $24,755.

To beat those poverty thresholds is fairly simple. Here’s the road map: complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen.… Continue Reading

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