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CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 29, 2020          EACH NIGHT BEFORE GOING TO BED I READ FROM THAT DAY’S CALENDAR PROVIDED BY THE BILLY GRAHAM ORGANIZATION. MONDAY’S WAS SO PROFOUND I WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH YOU:          “IN A SOCIETY OF UNREDEEMED PEOPLE, DEMOCRACY IS THE ONLY FAIR AND EQUITABLE SYSTEM. BUT NO DEMOCRACY CAN…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 28, 2020          WHOEVER DECIDED PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD NOT DOMINATE THOSE DAILY PRESS BRIEFINGS ON THE VIRUS MADE A WISE DECISION. THEY HAVE BECOME MORE ABOUT HIM THAN THE VIRUS AS HE ENGAGES IN COMBAT AND NAME CALLING WITH REPORTERS.          VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, WHO HEADS THE TASK FORCE, SHOULD…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 27, 2020          THE HEADLINE ON A COLUMN WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BY TIMOTHY EGAN SAYS: “HOW REPUBLICANS BECAME THE PARTY OF DEATH.”          THAT IS RICH IRONY CONSIDERING THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE BACKED ABORTION ON DEMAND SINCE 1973 AND MANY EVEN OPPOSED THE “BORN ALIVE ACT” THAT WOULD HAVE…

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.…