Gwinnett Daily Post - Cal Thomas

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Cal Thomas
THOMAS: Victimization won’t return GOP to power 0 Comments Last Updated: 4:59 PM 11/18/09 - I’m sure I would like Sarah Palin if I got the chance to meet her. We share many things in common. She is still married to her first spouse, as am I. She has a Down syndrome son. I have a brother with Down syndrome. We share the same faith and we both like the outdoors. She is conservative on economic and social issues, and so am I. (Full Story)
THOMAS: What do we have to gain from public terror trials? 0 Comments Last Updated: 5:19 PM 11/17/09 - The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen the Bronx Zoo, because a zoo is what will be created when this terrorist trial is held. (Full Story)
THOMAS: The double standard of diversity 0 Comments Last Updated: 3:48 PM 11/11/09 - Government and military officials have issued statements since last week’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that have nothing to do with the reality of what occurred, what is occurring and what our enemies would still like to have occur all over the United States. Listening to them leads to the conclusion that these people were handed talking points because they are all saying pretty much the same thing — that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions, stereotype or give in to paranoia. (Full Story)
THOMAS: Communism’s mistaken enablers and excusers 0 Comments Last Updated: 4:15 PM 11/04/09 - 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 communism guaranteed mutually shared poverty. (Full Story)
THOMAS: Can the 10th Amendment save America? 0 Comments Last Updated: 8:00 PM 11/03/09 - 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 juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution? (Full Story)
THOMAS: You can’t opt out of a bad monopoly Last Updated: 7:11 PM 10/28/09 - 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 class. Individuals won’t be able to avoid the consequences of national health care once the government puts the insurance companies out of business, because there will be no other choice than the government program. (Full Story)
THOMAS: Put America back in our public schools Last Updated: 7:42 PM 10/27/09 - Some conservatives are prematurely salivating over President Barack Obama’s declining poll numbers. According to a recent Gallup daily tracking poll, ‘‘the nine-point drop in the most recent quarter is the largest Gallup has ever measured for an elected president between the second and third quarters of his term, dating back to 1953.’’ That may comfort some Obama opponents, but three years is a long time until the next presidential election so conservatives and Republicans (not always the same) had better think of a long-range strategy if they want to save the country from the long-term consequences of what many call ‘‘socialism.’’ (Full Story)
THOMAS: Fox News is just reporting real stories Last Updated: 7:23 PM 10/21/09 - 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 dose of propaganda by their communist rulers. Those dictators did everything they could to ‘‘jam’’ the signals so that their people would only hear what their unelected overseers wanted them to hear. Contemporary versions of jamming and other forms of censorship occur today in Venezuela, Cuba and many other places where dictators believe public ignorance is essential to their unchallenged rule. (Full Story)
THOMAS: When does government stop spending? Last Updated: 7:38 PM 10/21/09 - The Washington Post headline sounds as if a comedy writer, or someone fluent in George Orwell’s “Newspeak” wrote it: “Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans,” it said. As if a contributing factor to the projected record-high deficit of $1.4 trillion has nothing to do with big spending by this and previous administrations. Is there no end? Will we ever reach a limit where government says “no more, we’ve done enough; you’re on your own now?” Apparently not. The people of “the greatest generation” mostly lived within their means. They knew what it meant to go without all but essentials. Today, we think the sky is the limit when it comes to spending and that if we can conceive it, then we are entitled to it. (Full Story)