President Obama rarely misses an opportunity to insert himself into an issue. Last Friday, he appeared in the White House pressroom to comment on the George Zimmerman verdict. The president said he could have been Trayvon Martin. Not likely, given his private schooling and the way he was fast-tracked to success. The president said the […]
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L. Danforth: Political views obscured facts
I am writing in reference to Cal Thomas’ July 17 column, “Nation’s double standard revealed,” where he writes that a CNN reporter “ludicrously called George Zimmerman a ‘white Hispanic’.” In fact, that is a perfectly appropriate way to describe Zimmerman. It is also exactly the way the United States Census would classify him. Since 2000, […]
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Cal Thomas: Young Pakistani girl has brave heart
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — While American cable TV news engaged in saturation coverage of the closing arguments and verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial, the BBC and Sky News carried an inspiring speech by Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head last October by the Taliban for advocating the education of […]
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Cal Thomas: Nation’s double standard evident in reaction to Zimmerman acquittal
We are so programmed by our history with race in America that reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman on charges of murdering Trayvon Martin depends largely upon one’s individual, even group experience. If you are African-American, you might react like former Washington, D.C., homicide detective Rod Wheeler. Appearing on Fox News, Wheeler said many […]
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Cal Thomas: UK serves up warning about Obamacare
FT. WILLIAM, Scotland — The power of television to shrink the world has always amazed me. Eating lunch on the road to Ft. William, a man at the next table recognizes me and introduces himself. Keith Farrington says he spent 15 years working as an assistant director of finance for the South East Thames Regional […]
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Cal Thomas: Islamists not supportive of democracy
The military coup that ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi marks another failure in U.S. foreign policy over several administrations, which have erroneously promoted the notion that American-style democracy in Islamic lands will produce a nation more like ours. The Founders wrote a Constitution. When properly read and obeyed, it guards against pure democracy and makes […]
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Cal Thomas: Remember the meaning of freedom
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams Freedom is not the default position of humankind; otherwise more would be free. In much of the world, dictatorship, religious persecution and the suppression of women […]
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Cal Thomas: Boundaries serve a purpose in life
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” — Genesis 2:24, NIV The problem for people who believe in an authority higher even than the Constitution is that in our increasingly secular and indifferent society it has become more […]