BECK: How big of a calamity is coming our way?

SOWELL: Gosh, I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.

The courts, my God, the whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy."

BECK: I tell you, this empathy thing, again, as I said at the beginning of the show, that's what is leading us to the...

BECK: How big of a calamity is coming our way?

SOWELL: Gosh, I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.

The courts, my God, the whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy."

BECK: I tell you, this empathy thing, again, as I said at the beginning of the show, that's what is leading us to these bailouts. Everybody says well I don't want people to lose their jobs, I don't want people to fail. Well, empathy is causing us to make very bad decisions right now.

SOWELL: Yes.

BECK: You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy, and I can't believe that this is where the United States government is taking our court system now, to empathy.

SOWELL: One of my favorite statements by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was in a letter he said, "I loathe most of the people that I decided in favor of." So he was the opposite pole from the empathy thing.