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) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was pulled down to the consternation of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that socialism and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/11/05/communisms_enablers_and_excusers f6bb5d92-dbba-4471-92d2-3cec4cc0f2c3 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/11/03/can_the_tenth_amendment_save_us d6232a9e-0b81-423a-8f3c-ee892a1a126a Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Does anyone in Washington tell the truth? Why should Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid be believed when he promises states can "opt-out" of a public option on health care? This isn't like opting-out of sex education... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/29/democrats_worth_hearing 95067e60-9844-4f60-9138-8e6fa1d40af4 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'Till it's gone" -- Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" Some conservatives are prematurely salivating over President Obama's declining poll... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/27/a_long-range_strategy 23fd9c72-28fd-4823-a5c1-f230dd9d319d Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT During the Cold War, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among the broadcast entities that effectively penetrated the Iron Curtain to deliver truth to the "captive nations" that were being fed a steady... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/22/radio_free_america f8c0050a-242f-4fe2-b663-3416c1799675 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "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 George Orwell's "Newspeak" wrote it:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/20/the_way_it_is 8d2eb357-bbe6-4839-b411-de6864ea5ee8 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT I am sympathetic to the story told by Joseph Rocha, who claims in a Washington Post opinion column that he was discharged from the Navy because he is gay, though he says he never told anyone. Rocha says his male... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/15/dont_ask,_tell_or_legitimize 5e76bb9f-c8c1-4a00-90eb-8827ccd8ee50 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "War will continue until the end..." (Daniel 9:26) Like the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, along with the Oscar and Emmy for film and television, the Nobel Peace Prize is an inside job in which liberal,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/13/no_peace,_no_prize 25e74938-712a-4415-9eaf-a59d4d2bc65f Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:18 GMT "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." -- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" Why won't we listen to what used to be called sage advice before the Internet made too many of us think we are re-inventing the world and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/08/where_have_you_gone_willie_shakespeare 958b322e-6c45-46c9-89b7-4425bec0d327 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT 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 an actor from engaging in public behavior that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/06/creepy_behavior 725e7683-d27d-4463-a1eb-d46f5e6630d6 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/01/the_story_behind_a_story 36755942-7084-4189-b85e-283247d94580 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If you are 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 would do this largely through deception,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/09/29/deception b805fec3-6488-42a8-9bc0-5834d0099da5 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT "They would not listen, they're not listening still, "Perhaps they never will." -- Don McLean, "Vincent" Radio and TV commentator Glenn Beck was mentioned three times in separate opinion columns on the same... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/09/24/glenn_beck_explained 48e5d615-d98c-46d0-a80c-c98ddf7e60ae Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT 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 and kicked kids smaller and weaker than himself, especially... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/09/22/war_through_weakness e5522597-8f3b-48f7-bd89-82d9bd0b38fe Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president because of our history of slavery and the denial of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/09/17/the_racism_card 26ec7447-e51a-4bdc-b88b-229cd5e928c7 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT