... Is the media paying attention?" Syndicated columnist and "Fox News Watch" regular Cal Thomas said there was a distinction between this and the coverage of the 2004 accounts of torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Gharib in Iraq. The difference he said was the ruling party in Washington, D.C. "You know, it's an interesting contrast here with Abu Gharib," Thomas...
From Cal Thomas' November 24 column : We've only just begun with this. The new breast and cervical cancer screening guidelines may soon become mandatory as health care rationing kicks in. The unwanted, the inconvenient and the "burdensome" could soon be dispatched with a pill, or through neglect. Great horrors don't begin in gas chambers, killing fields or forced famines. They begin...
Cal Thomas welcomes us to the U.S.S.A., the United Socialist States of America, and warns of the consequences of government seizure of one-sixth of our economy and government's ability to decide how we run our lives ( and it won't stop with health care ): Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost i mperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and...
Just watch it and think about the similarities to today’s economy. Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest thinkers of our time. Big Government liberals try and swoop in during a recession and try and fix things with more big government spending, only to compound the problem ten fold. Granted, Hoover the Republican made the same mistake [...]
Search | NewsInside News SectionsEssentials Today's topics Online Chats Discussions between readers and Editorial Page contributors Regular features On ReligionA weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world. Common GroundIn Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better...
Search | NewsInside News SectionsEssentials Today's topics Online Chats Discussions between readers and Editorial Page contributors Regular features On ReligionA weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world. Common GroundIn Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better...
This is exactly what a certain obscure historian has been calling it for months on Middle East Radio Forum. Pass it on. -------------------- Nov. 24, 2009 U.S.S.A. By Cal Thomas 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 are gone. Such is
... horizons should be broadened. We've been doing that in recent weeks. Syndicated columnists such as Cal Thomas, Rich Lowry, Bob Herbert and Gail Collins have been appearing less frequently, or at all, on our Viewpoints pages. In their place, we've been running Charles Krauthammer and Michael Gerson, and more of David Brooks and Thomas Friedman. Starting today (on page E5), we are also...
Search | NewsInside News SectionsEssentials Today's topics Online Chats Discussions between readers and Editorial Page contributors Regular features On ReligionA weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world. Common GroundIn Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better...
Search | NewsInside News SectionsEssentials Today's topics Online Chats Discussions between readers and Editorial Page contributors Regular features On ReligionA weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world. Common GroundIn Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better...
Search | NewsInside News SectionsEssentials Today's topics Online Chats Discussions between readers and Editorial Page contributors Regular features On ReligionA weekly series explores the issues of faith that are shaping our world. Common GroundIn Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better...
Yes, Cal Thomas, Sarah Palin's "victim thing" is getting very, very old. "If she can sharpen her intellect"...he says, she'd be a force to be feared in a few years. Cal, I don't think that's going to happen. If it was going to happen, it would have had to happen now, as she "re-emerged." I've watched the sound and fury unfold over the past two weeks, however, as...
... years, and no terrorists duct-taped dignitaries to antique chairs in downtown Charleston.) But Cal Thomas, one of the country’s most widely read columnists, took the cake with this assessment: "The administration’s first mistake is to label these men ‘criminals,’ as if a terrorist attack and the announced objective of forcibly ‘Islamisizing’ America were the same as robbing a bank," he wrote....