Predictable as the falling leaves, California’s Senator Barbara Boxer has been demagoguing the non-issue of oil profits. In this article Thomas Sowell demonstrates that she doesn’t have any idea what she’s talking about and her policy notions are simply idiotic.

I’d like to imagine that somehow Sowell’s column winds up where Boxer can’t ignore it. How’s this: Boxer is flying back to California when the captain comes on and says, “Now I would like to take a couple of minutes to read an edifying column by Thomas Sowell, which happens to mention one of our first-class passengers….”