Articles filed under Thomas, Cal

• All can agree on the value of cures Apr 4, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: Suppose the conversation on health care switched from a system devoted primarily to caring for the sick to one that gives top priority to finding cures for disease?
  

   

• What America will look like if Obama’s re-elected Mar 29, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: In the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America. Given a second term and especially with a Democratic Congress, he will.
  

   

• For government: No limits Mar 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  Under this rule, if a homeless man wants salt on his food, will a New York City official wrestle the shaker from his hands?
  

   

• What now for Republicans? Mar 19, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: If Romney is having such a difficult time beating Rick Santorum and to a lesser extent Newt Gingrich how will he marshal the forces necessary to beat President Obama in the fall?
  

   

• A sincere apology Mar 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: The first apology by Rush Limbaugh, posted on his website over the weekend, sounded forced, qualified, almost defensive. The second, broadcast live on his Monday show, sounded sincere and heartfelt.
  

   

• The God gap is growing wider Mar 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas: The God gap is growing wider in Ameirca
  

   

• Is censorship the new pluralism? Feb 27, 2012 12:00 AM
  Cal Thomas: Is free speech being threatened by censorship in the name of pluralism, and conformity in the name of diiversity?
  

   

• Rachel Maddow and my lesson in civility Feb 20, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: It didn’t matter that far worse things have been said in print and on TV about me. I am not supposed to behave like that.
  

   

• Losing liberty Feb 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: The Obama administration’s ham-fisted attempt to require that contraceptives and abortifacients be offered to employees of Catholic and other religious institutions is a serious threat to our civil liberties.
  

   

• GOP must fight the fudge with real numbers Feb 9, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: The Obama administration is touting the latest unemployment numbers released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor as proof its policies are working. But a closer look at the actual number of able-bodied people who are willing to work, but are not, reveals a different picture.
  

   

• Weakness is an invitation to war Feb 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Call Thomas: President Ronald Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the best hope of victory should America go to war. President Obama is taking the opposite approach.
  

   

• Three conservative victories Jan 20, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: It will be interesting to see if the “ministerial exception” can be extended to the Obama health care law in the event it withstands constitutional challenge.
  

   

• My brother’s valuable, successful life Jan 10, 2012 12:00 AM
  Shortly after he was born in 1950, my brother Marshall was diagnosed with Down syndrome. If your standard for a successful life is how that life positively touched others, then my brother’s life was a resounding success.
  

   

• The Justice Department’s identity problem Jan 4, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• As this end nears, guard your checkbook Dec 28, 2011 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: While we wait to see if the Mayan apocalypse occurs, a more reliable prediction includes an end of a different sort. The economic stimulus pipeline from Washington to the states is about to run dry.
  

   

• Remember the grieving at Christmas Dec 25, 2011 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: Find someone who has lost a loved one to war and take them a present. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Tell them, “I wanted to bring you a gift in recognition of the gift your loved one gave our country.”
  

   

• Too many promises, too little done Dec 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: Democrats didn’t improve anything and nothing has been made better. According to President Obama’s own standard, and contrary to what he said on “60 Minutes,” he does not deserve a second term.
  

   

• Strategies for a front-runner Dec 14, 2011 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: I ask Romney to finish this sentence: “Conservatives will not be disappointed with me as president because ...” “Because I share your values,” he says, “because I am a leader who knows how to get things done.”
  

   

• What’s wrong about adultery Dec 9, 2011 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: Once, divorce was a political “kiss of death.” Now we are debating whether adultery should carry a similar penalty. One shudders to think what might be next.
  

   

• A December to remember Dec 2, 2011 12:00 AM
  Columnist Cal Thomas: Dec. 7, 1941 may be a day that “will live in infamy,” but that month, those years, that war revealed an American character still on display in our military today, though it’s somewhat lacking in our civilian population.