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• Cal Thomas: Obama’s jobs boast falls flat

  December 15, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 In 1952, Shepherd Mead wrote a little book called “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” In 1961, it became an award-winning Broadway musical. It’s an instruction book about … 4

• Mockery is the last refuge

  December 8, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 “A mocker resents correction; he will not consult the wise.” (Proverbs 15:12) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has taken the route of many who would rather call names than have …

• Cal Thomas: Health care ‘reform’ alarming

  December 1, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Assuming a rock-solid 40 Republicans stand against the health care reform bill now being debated in the Senate, it will take just one Democrat or independent to derail this monstrosity, … 3

• Cal Thomas: Radical change starts small

  November 24, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late that their freedoms … 3

• Cal Thomas: Trial will convey weakness

  November 17, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom … 1

• Cal Thomas: U.S. is blinded by tolerance

  November 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 By now, the script should be disturbingly familiar. Whether in the Middle East, or increasingly in America, a fanatical Muslim blows up or goes on a shooting spree, killing many. … 1

• Cal Thomas: Reclaim education first

  October 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got 4

• Cal Thomas: ‘Less is more’ needs revival

  October 20, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 “That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change …” (Bruce Hornsby song lyric) The Washington Post headline sounds as if a comedy writer, or someone fluent in …

• Cal Thomas: TV helps to sap morality

  October 6, 2009 in Opinion on Page A19 In olden days when “a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking” there was a morals clause written into an actor’s film contract. The purpose was to restrain …

• Cal Thomas: Facebook belies imam’s talk

  September 29, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 If you were an enemy of America seeking her destruction, you would add to your pursuit of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons the undermining of this nation from within. You … 1

• Cal Thomas: U.S. submitting to bullies

  September 22, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 When I was a kid, there was a bully in our neighborhood. He never picked on kids his own size and certainly not on anyone larger. Rather, he punched, pushed … 1

• Cal Thomas: Clouds on liberals’ horizon

  September 8, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 Despite their control of all three branches of government, this has not been a good summer for liberal Democrats. Their health care “reform” bill, which has yet to be fully … 4

• Cal Thomas: Reform would usurp God

  August 11, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The debate – OK, the shouting match – we are having over “health care reform” is about many things, including cost, who gets help and who does not and who, … 3

• Cal Thomas: ‘Right to die’ packs a punch

  August 4, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 BELFAST, Northern Ireland – While America debates whether the federal government should dictate which insurance policies and medical treatments it will allow us to have, here in the United Kingdom, …

• Cal Thomas: New programs spell disaster

  July 21, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 “How high’s the water, Mama? “Two feet high and risin’ …”

• Cal Thomas: Obama’s timidity showing

  July 14, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 ROME – What did President Barack Obama achieve for himself and for America during last week’s G-8 summit? Not much. Despite what presumably was his best effort at using the … 3

• Palin should hit the books

  July 7, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The soon to be former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is like one of those souffles my mother sometimes made. The recipe warned against premature removal from the oven because … 1

• Cal Thomas: Fight the voice of temptation

  June 30, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The first thing that should be acknowledged about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission to an extramarital affair is that it could happen to any of us. That is not …

• Cal Thomas: Schools fail despite funding

  June 23, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Some people have certain presumptions – for example, that government is better suited to handling problems than individuals or private entities. And then there are the accompanying assumptions that government, … 2

• Cal Thomas: Learning from cities’ decline

  June 16, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 There are perhaps dozens of small towns and failing neighborhoods beginning to resemble ghost towns. We’ve all seen them if we get off the Interstate and drive down state or … 2

• Cal Thomas: Government stunts progress

  June 9, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 A statue of Ronald Reagan was unveiled last week in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda at a time when many Republicans, and even some conservatives, think Reagan’s ideas are passé. Before … 4

• Cal Thomas: Cairo speech could backfire

  June 2, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 President Barack Obama faces numerous challenges as he heads to Cairo this week for a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world. At best there are mixed feelings in the region. …

• Cal Thomas: Obama irrationally fearless

  May 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 Wouldn’t it be nice if things were simple instead of complicated; if hailing our Founding Fathers and the documents they wrote were sufficient to persuade people who do not share …

• Cal Thomas: Entitled beyond their means

  May 19, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 There are titled people in Britain and then there are people who consider themselves entitled. The current scandal here is that the entitled are not the growing number receiving benefits …

• Cal Thomas: Safeguard wartime secrets

  April 28, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Writes Michael S. Sweeney in his history of the Office of Censorship, “Secrets of Victory”: “On Aug. 17, 1942, a nationally syndicated columnist wrote that she had received ‘a very …

• Cal Thomas: GOP must stick to its tenets

  April 24, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Sen. John McCain’s daughter and his presidential campaign manager think they’ve figured out why McCain lost the 2008 election and what Republicans must do to win in the future. They …

• Cal Thomas: Boyle offers lesson on truth, beauty

  April 21, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 For two days I contemplated the phenomenon that is Susan Boyle. As nearly everyone must know by now, Boyle is the Scottish singer who blew away the judges, the audience …

• Cal Thomas: Taxpayers, keep a tight fist

  April 14, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 April 15 might become the biggest tax-and-spend protest since the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Politicians fear spontaneous citizen outrage. That’s because when the public realizes they have been scammed, …

• Cal Thomas: Iowa’s real trouble ignored

  April 7, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 When Meredith Willson wrote the wildly popular musical “The Music Man” half a century ago, Harold Hill proclaimed trouble had come to River City, Iowa, in the form of a …

• Cal Thomas: War effort merits support

  March 31, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 One frequently reads and hears that Afghanistan has become “Obama’s war.” The implication by many who use that phrase is that if things go badly in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama …

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