Month: December 2018
CAL THOMAS For release: 01/01/19 Resolved: To speak English By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?” asked Professor Henry Higgins in the musical “My Fair Lady.” It’s a good question for Americans, especially millennials. On a recent flight two young women sat behind me, chattering away…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 1, 2019 HERE ARE SOME RESOLUTIONS I WISH COULD BE FULFILLED IN 2019. CONGRESS WOULD GET ALONG, PUTTING THE COUNTTRY AHEAD OF PARTISANSHIP AND SELF-INTEREST. PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO CRITICIZE SO MANY PEOPLE AND START LISTENING TO THOSE WHO PUT THE COUNTRY’S INTEREST FIRST. …
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 28, 2018 THE NEW CONGRESS WILL BE SEATED NEXT WEEK. DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL THE HOUSE AND YOU CAN COUNT ON INVESTIGATION AFTER INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP, HIS FAMILY AND HIS BUSINESSES. YOU CAN ALSO COUNT ON SPECIAL COUNSUL ROBERT MUELLER’S REPORT, WHICH AT A MINIMUM IS LIKELY TO BE HIGHLY CRITICAL…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 31, 2018 WHAT WILL 2019 BRING? ONLY GOD KNOWS. I DOUBT MANY PEOPLE COULD HAVE PREDICTED ALL OF THE EVENTS OF 2018 ONE YEAR AGO. PROBABLY NO ONE COULD. ARE YOU LOOKING TO GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE OR THE LIVES OF OTHERS? HERE’S SOME SOLID ADVIDE FROM AN ANCIENT LEADER.…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 28, 2018 I THINK I READ SOMEWHERE THERE ARE 95 OF THEM – NEWLY ELECTED HOUSE MEMBERS WHO ARE CALLED “PROGRESSIVES.” THEY USED TO BE LIBERALS BUT WHEN THAT WORD BECAME A NEGATIVE IN SOME CIRCLES, THEY CHANGED IT TO PROGRESSIVE. SAME POLICIES – HIGHER TAXES, MORE SPENDING, BIGGER GOVERNMENT, MORE…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 27, 2018 THE NEW CONGRESS WILL BE SEATED NEXT WEEK. DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL THE HOUSE AND YOU CAN COUNT ON INVESTIGATION AFTER INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP, HIS FAMILY AND HIS BUSINESSES. YOU CAN ALSO COUNT ON SPECIAL COUNSUL ROBERT MUELLER’S REPORT, WHICH AT A MINIMUM IS LIKELY TO BE HIGHLY CRITICAL…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARYT DECEMBER 26, 2018 THE STOCK MARKET HAS FALLEN MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND POINTS SINCE IT’S HIGH OF JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO. PRESIDENT TRUMP BLAMES IT ON THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND THE DECISION BY ITS CHAIRMAN TO RAISE INTEREST RATES. THE PRESIDENT IS UNILATERALLY WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM SYRIA AND AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT CONSULTING…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 25, 2018 IT’S THE SAME EVERY YEAR. THE SECULAR PROGRESSIVES TROT OUT SO-CALLED LEARNED PROFESSORS WHO QUESTION WHETHER JESUS WAS REALLY BORN OF A VIRGIN. OTHERS QUESTION WHETHER HE EXISTED AT ALL. EASTER BRINGS OUT THE SAME SKEPTICS AND THEIR DOUBTS ARE REPORTED AS IF THEY HAVE CREDIBILITY. THE NATURAL MAN…
Read MoreThe erosion of what many Americans once believed were the foundations of our country continues apace. They include, but are not limited to, overspending and debt (personal and national), never-ending wars, uncontrolled borders leading to massive immigration with no time for or expectation of assimilation and political divisions that grow wider by the day. It’s…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 24, 2018 THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS IS A TIME WHEN MOST PEOPLE TURN AWAY FROM POLITICS AND FOCUS ON LAST MINUTE SHOPPING, PARTIES, CHURCH SERVICES AND CAROLING. THAT WAS NOT LAST WEEK. DEFENSE SECRETARY JAMES MATTIS ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION BECAUSE OF DISPUTES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER TROOP PULLOUTS FROM SYRIA AND…
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