The Black Republican

I love Thomas Sowell's writing. Not just the substance of what he writes, but the style. Observe how, in an article entitled Above criticism? he skillfully eviscerates Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's complaints regarding the criticisms directed toward proponents of Judicial activism:

We are already well down the slippery slope toward judicial rule, and Justice O'Connor is one of those who has repeatedly greased that slope in decisions full of sociological pieties, fashionable rhetoric, and lofty attitudes, but lacking in legal principles from the Constitution of the United States.

With a skilled wordsmith like Sowell, words and phrases are like a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon. And, as I think Justice O'Connor can attest, the truth cuts deepest of all.