Cal Thomas's blog

A very civil forum

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:55:42 -0400

The “civil forum” featuring presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain may not have been as exciting as Michael Phelps winning his eighth Olympic gold medal, but it was civil and it was a forum from which emerged useful information.

Rainy nights in Georgia

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:54:54 -0400

Russia’s invasion of Georgia on the pretext of “protecting” Russian peacekeepers stationed in the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and ending the “ethnic cleansing” of native Russians living there, is a sobering reminder that the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 was not a sign that old-line communists were ready to walk the sawdust trail of repentance and convert to capitalism, democracy, human rights and religious freedom. Quite the contrary.

Politics as usual

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:34:49 -0400

At the beginning of this long political season — if there ever was a beginning, since campaigns are now nonstop with only the players changing — it appeared this one might, just might, be different.

Great expectations

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:08:51 -0400

There is a reason the psalmist warned, “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” (Psalm 146:3)

School for scoundrels

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:13 -0400

Despite a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., has continued to use textbooks that teach hatred of everyone not of their specific brand of faith, the U.S. State Department has yet to act to close down the school.

(Un)conventional wisdom

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:52:53 -0400

It is understandable that those who think President Bush has done a poor job want to replace him with a Democrat they think might do a better one. What is not understandable is why voters, who think Congress has performed poorly, would vote to keep the Democratic majority in place and, according to many polls, expand it.

Progress? So what

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:12:38 -0400

There is a reason progress in Iraq is not receiving more attention. It isn’t that Americans are “bored” or “tired” or have “moved on” or “don’t care” or “have already made up their minds that the war was a colossal mistake.” All of these are variations on themes articulated by certain liberals, Bush-haters, Barack Obama supporters (but I repeat myself) inside and outside the big media.

Can’t do spirit

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:11:37 -0400

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.” — Auntie Mame

In today’s political climate, a liberal Auntie Mame might say that life is a banquet, which the government must pay for, and that those who can’t afford a place at the table should behave like it was an all-you-can eat buffet.

Obama is no Joshua

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:17:30 -0400

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign plans to strike at the heart of the Republican base by attempting to woo Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics to his side.

Lessons from the poor

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:52:22 -0400

Listening to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton repeat stories they claim to have been told by the poor and the unemployed, who are unable to pay for food and medicine and feel miserable about it, is enough to make one think we are living in a Third World dictatorship and not the United States of America. But victimhood and a “can’t do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

PFLEGER, POLITICS AND PIZZA

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:30:08 -0400

A self-identified African-American caller to a Washington, D.C., radio station characterized the recent anti-Hillary Clinton outburst by the white liberal Chicago priest, Michael Pfleger, as a “minstrel show.”

God bless Ted Kennedy

Thu, 22 May 2008 15:27:30 -0400

These days, people on “one side” of the political spectrum are not supposed to cooperate, much less have a personal relationship, with anyone on the “other side.” Siding with “the enemy” can get you branded a compromiser, a sellout, or fool.

In Defense of ‘Big Oil’

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:28:44 -0400

With gas prices topping $4 a gallon in some regions of the country, now may not be the best time to say something positive about “big oil,” but here goes anyway.

Obama, the inexperienced

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:28:04 -0400

While the Rev. Jeremiah Wright continues to play out in sound bites on cable TV and talk radio, it isn’t Wright who might be president. It is Barack Obama who wants that job.

Jimmy Carter just doesn’t get it

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:03:57 -0400

[Editor’s note: For a different perspective on former President Carter’s trip to the Middle East, read the online comments by his son, Jeff Carter, a Peachtree City resident and participant in his father’s negotiations. The Web address is thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/27663#comment-72184]