Cal Thomas’s column (Oct. 1) offered ideas for combating campus sexual assaults. Thomas says conversations about sexual behavior should start with both genders long before college. I agree. He then says that young women should be taught to respect themselves and “conduct themselves honorably,” and that young men should be taught to be gentlemen and […]
Cal Thomas
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: The Supreme Court’s nonruling on gay marriage
Three points need to be made about Monday’s decision by the Supreme Court not to decide whether the equal protection clause of the Constitution grants people of the same sex the right to marry. Point 1: While the court’s liberal wing probably wanted to accept cases banning same-sex marriage in five states that have been […]
advertisement
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: ISIS, Ebola — Americans can handle the truth
The Ebola virus is not a threat, but ISIS is. That’s what some of our leaders tell us. Should we believe them? Do they have a track record for truth-telling that would lend them credibility? ISIS hasn’t (yet) invaded America, but Ebola has. We are bombing ISIS in Syria, but treating Ebola here as an […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: Obama spreads the blame around for ISIS rise
“No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.” — Alexander Pope President Obama is known for wanting to “spread the wealth around,” but he has now gone a step further. He is spreading blame around for his […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: Combating campus sexual assaults
College freshmen are completing their first month on campus. According to the website The Other Freshman 15, “The first 15 weeks of college can be the riskiest for sexual assault. … One out of five students experience rape or sexual assault while they are in college, and in the great majority of cases (75-80 percent), […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: Mercenaries could be useful in fight against ISIS
On his Fox News show Monday night, Bill O’Reilly suggested using mercenaries to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) instead of U.S. ground forces, which President Obama has repeatedly vowed not to deploy. The use of mercenaries is as old as warfare itself. Alexander the Great used them. King George III hired German mercenaries to fight […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: What Jack Ma can re-teach America
In the fairy tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, is in the forest when he hears a group of robbers approaching on horseback. Afraid, he climbs a tree and hears one of the men say, “open sesame.” A door opens in a rock and the men go in, the […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: Why do Americans hate America?
After some hand-wringing over British citizens who have chosen to fight with ISIS, Prime Minister David Cameron said he thinks one reason for the defection is that too many of the defectors have forgotten what it means to be British. As a means of fighting the radicalization of young people, he wants all of Britain’s […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: More negatives than positives for Hillary
Prior to his annual steak fry, retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said this about Hillary Clinton to Dan Balz of The Washington Post: “… she is much more progressive in her thoughts and her inclination than most people may think.” Liberals have embraced the word “progressive” because it sounds more forward-looking than “liberal,” which has […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Cal Thomas: NFL should consider morals clauses in contracts
The “indefinite suspension” of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for knocking out his then-fiancee, now wife, in an elevator at an Atlantic City casino has again provoked debate about domestic violence and what the National Football League tolerates when it affects a star player. Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, who last spring testified to […]