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CAL THOMAS COMMENTART APRIL 24, 2020 THIS WILL NOT COME AS BREAKING NEWS TO ANYONE, BUT IT SHOULD FORCE US TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. RESULTS FROM THE 2018 NATIONWIDE SURVERY OF WHAT AND HOW AMERICAN HISTORY AND CIVICS ARE BEING TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE IN. THE FIGURES ARE DEPRESSING, AS THEY HAVE BEEN…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY FOR APRIL 23, 2020             HARVARD COLLEGE IS AMERICA’S OLDEST SCHOOL OF HIGHER LEARNING. IT’S MOTTO IS “VERITAS,” OR TRUTH. BUT IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER HARVARD WAS TELLING THE TRUTH WHEN IT CLAIMED TO NEED STIMULUS MONEY, MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO SMALL BUSINESSES. THE SCHOOL RECEIVED $8.6 MILLION. PRESIDENT…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 22,2020          PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING ALL IMMIGRATION TO THE U.S.. HE SAID IT’S BECAUSE OF THE VIRUS AND TO PROTECT AMERICAN JOBS, WHICH DON’T REALLY EXIST AT THE MOMENT DUE TO SO MANY HAVING BEEN FURLOUGHED OR ARE NOW UNEMPLOYED. THIRTEEN AND ONE-HALF PERCENT OF THE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 21, 2020             CHERYL CHUMLEY IS THE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES, ONE OF THE NEWSPAPERS THAT CARRIES MY COLUMN. SHE WRITES: “Communist-minded community organizer Saul Alinsky, in his prologue to “Rules for Radicals,” explained that the most effective activists were those who worked within the established “system,” not against it,…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 20, 2020          WHEN IT COMES TO RE-OPENING THE ECONOMY AND THE COUNTRY AFTER THE UNPRECEDENTED SHUTDOWN, ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RIGHTLY LEAVING IT UP TO INDIVIDUAL GOVERNORS TO MAKE THE DECISIONS FOR THEIR STATES AND LOCALITIES.          DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS, LEAD BY SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI,…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 17, 2020          PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THREATENED TO ADJOURN CONGRESS BECAUSE OF ITS FAILURE TO CONFIRM ABOUT 100 OF HIS NOMINEES TO HIGH POSITIONS. AT WEDNESDAY’S WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING, THE PRESIDENT SAID HE HAS BEEN HAMSTRUNG BY THE LACK OF PERSONNEL BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE HELD UP HIS NOMINEES. WHILE REPUBLICANS ARE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 16, 2020          TO OPEN OR NOT TO OPEN, THAT IS THE QUESTION, WITH A NOD TO SHAKESPEARE.          THIS IS THE ULTIMATE QUESTION NOW BEING PONDERED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE NATIONS’ GOVERNORS. OPEN TOO SOON AND THE VIRUS COULD COME ROARING BACK, EVEN THOUGH NEW CASES ARE IN DECLINE.…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 15, 2020          THE COUNTRY IS GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO RE-OPENING, BUT WHAT WILL THAT LOOK LIKE? ON MONDAY, THE GOVERNORS OF NEW ENGLAND STATES – ALL DEMOCRATS – ANNOUNCED THEY WILL BE WORKING TOGETHER TO STRATEGIZE RE-OPENING THEIR STATES FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE.          PRESIDENT TRUMP COUNTERED THAT HE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 14, 2020          THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT IS SOMETHING OUR FOUNDERS WANTED RESTRAINED. CONSIDER THAT POWER NOW DISPLAYED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.          THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIALIZED MONDAY: “AMERICANS BY AND LARGE HAVE WILLINGLY OBEYED THE GOVERNMENT’S SHELTER-IN-PLACE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING ORDERS, BUT THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ENOUGH…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 13, 2020          A PASTOR FRIEND TELLS ME DONATIONS TO HIS LARGE CHURCH ARE DOWN 40 PERCENT BECAUSE OF THE CORONOVIRUS AND THE NECESSITY OF WORSHIPPING VIA VIDEO, INSTEAD OF COMING TO THE BUILDING.          I CAN IDENTIFY. DONATIONS TO VALUES THROUGH MEDIA, WHICH SUPPORT THESE COMMENTARIES AND OTHER OUTREACH EFFORTS,…