Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist. 540 newspapers in the United States and abroad carry the column, now syndicated by Tribune Media Services in Chicago. For sixteen years Cal Thomas's column was distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Cal Thomas began his nearly 40-year journalism career as a copyboy for NBC News in his native Washington, D.C. Cal Thomas also has worked as a general assignment reporter and anchor for KPRC-TV in Houston and for NBC News in Washington. For two years Cal Thomas hosted his own show on CNBC. It was nominated for a Cable Ace award as the best interview program on cable. Cal Thomas is a commentator/analyst for the Fox News Channel and appears weekly as a panelist on "Fox News Watch." Cal Thomas is an author of ten books, including Blinded by Might: Why the Religious Right Can't Save America (HarperCollins/Zondervan). His latest is, The Wit and Wisdom of Cal Thomas. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ LYNCHBURG, Va. -- It wasn't exactly the belly of the beast Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited recently on a picture-perfect commencement day at "the world's largest Christian University," but his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/05/15/romneys_stellar_performance fa8ef32c-49c0-418f-bfd3-a0f5cef9d6f8 Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Former NPR and current Fox News political analyst Juan Williams made an excellent point Monday night on "The O'Reilly Factor." Williams said the major reason President Obama had not endorsed same-sex marriage is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/05/10/marriage_and_political_experience f02a7e73-5841-41d5-8332-54101e3d72c5 Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr." is another of the Harvard professor's wonderful television series for PBS. This is "must-see TV" and a more than worthy sequel to three previous projects Gates has hosted... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/05/08/finding_your_roots 860d44d8-5c91-4e05-ad4e-7f9e37c64f55 Tue, 08 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT It is something of a truism that whenever the federal government steps in, costs usually rise and efficiency declines. That is especially true when it comes to a college education, which President Obama promised... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/05/03/college_loans_and_the_road_to_success b9689962-b7b9-4ea6-8692-1cc304d13b98 Thu, 03 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT In the 1993 movie "Dave" the faux president (played by Kevin Kline) calls in his best friend (played by Charles Grodin) and they stay up all night balancing the federal budget, not by raising taxes, but by cutting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/05/01/give_em_l_mitt 034e94dc-d690-458e-b6cb-0b66faa035ad Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT "The war on terror is over," or so claims an unnamed senior State Department official, as reported by National Journal's Michael Hirsh in his recent article "The Post al-Qaida Era." Really? Well, if the war is over,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/26/the_war_is_over 81b2ffd8-4626-415d-864b-49ce01613fa3 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT After Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy and the California governor's race two years later (when he uttered the immortal line to the media, "You don't have Nixon to kick around... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/24/the_new_charles_colson 5e7ab6d7-3e23-4ce6-9819-d6aaafd9f84c Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:39:00 GMT Dick Clark, who died Wednesday at 82, was called "America's oldest teenager." That's not only because he looked so good late into life, but also because he carried with him the teen memories of those of us who grew up... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/20/dick_clark_remembered f8885416-db98-4ef9-8075-a2089e925da6 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT In the 1962 Howard Lindsay-Russel Crouse-Irving Berlin Broadway musical, "Mr. President," one of the songs in the production is titled "The Secret Service," which begins, "the Secret Service makes me... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/19/not_so_secret_service ec7a0806-bf35-424f-ba52-6ca48866a39d Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Virtually everything said and done in a presidential election year distorts the truth, much like concave and convex mirrors in a carnival attraction alter one's true reflection. That kind of distortion occurred in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/17/latest_salvo_fired_in_mommy_wars 04ed7cc0-c2e9-412b-9083-3ff11d39d221 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Most campaigns have a musical theme. Rick Santorum, who "suspended" his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, might have selected the song "The Impossible Dream." Santorum's dream seemed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/12/rick_santorums_impossible_dream 6aa8d8cb-a641-4b55-bd57-9a49378a868a Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Here, where Titanic, the massive White Star Line luxury liner, was built -- the joke for years has been, "It was fine when it left here." This year marks the 100th anniversary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/10/titanic_the_reality 191151fe-c7ff-4665-af15-07d652498019 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:10:00 GMT Next week the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans will celebrate its 65th anniversary. I confess I did not know of its existence until I read their ad in an airline magazine. I am familiar with Horatio... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/05/inspiration_plus_perspiration_equals_success 44b59429-bac6-4c0e-8b43-cd9ddfed880c Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The debate isn't new, but as the country awaits the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, suppose the conversation switched... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2012/04/03/care_or_cure 91476931-0dc3-47dd-8d7b-88cda52f82b4 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT