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The Sumerians had no knowledge of such things as Concertina wire or the now ubiquitous Soviet-Bloc manufactured RPG-7 and AK-47. Building in their own style, they erected the first bureaucratic human civilization that documented everything on little clay tablets. These tablets were then lost to the sands and then subsequently unearthed and sent to British academia to have their mysteries teased out by men who would sit pecking away at machines to produce information about the information.
My father could, at one point, read Sumerian. He would tell my brother and I about lots of sheep sold, recipes for making skunky beer, and the petty whining of lower clerks miffed about the accounting practices of some crank in a burg a day’s ride west of Ur. Both of us enjoyed these glimpses into the workings of an empire many thousands of years dead.
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Legislators in both the N.C. House and Senate took a short break from pressing business today to mark the 91st birthday of Thomas Sowell. The Gastonia native has injected important economic concepts into high-profile national public policy debates for decades.
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke had urged state officials to honor Sowell during a recent edition of her “Right AOC on Point” video series.
Rep. John Torbett and Sen. Ted Alexander, both of whom represent Gaston County, submitted official statements honoring Sowell within their respective chambers. Both followed up the formal written statements with spoken comments on Sowell’s legacy. (Watch Torbett’s floor speech at this link.) (Hear Alexander’s floor speech at this link.) The written documents will be added to the official journals of House and Senate proceedings.