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\u00a0 \u00a0 The economist Thomas Sowell, of Stanford\u2019s Hoover Institution, is one of the finest conservative thinkers in America, and I\u2019ve admired him for many years. \u00a0 Here\u2019s his take on The Donald: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.thefederalistpapers.org\/us\/dr-thomas-sowell-on-trump \u00a0 I wish voters were listening. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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