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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,…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 10, 2020          TODAY IS GOOD FRIDAY, THE DAY CHRISTIANS REMEMBER THE TERRIBLE PRICE JESUS OF NAZARETH PAID FOR OUR SINS ON THE CROSS. BLEEDING AND DYING HE REMOVED THE STAIN FROM US.          THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT DISTRACT US FROM THAT MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENT IN HISTORY, FOLLOWED SUNDAY BY…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 9, 2020          THE LEFT IS IN AN UPROAR BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS FIRED ONE OF MANY INSPECTORS GENERAL WHO WAS GOING TO OVERSEE THE SPENDING OF THE TWO TRILLION AID PACKAGE PASSED BY CONGRESS.          DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH OVERSIGHT THERE ALREADY IS? HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY SAYS…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 8, 2020 WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAT YOU DID NOT, OR COULD NOT, DO BEFORE THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK? WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER UNIMPORTANT NOW THAT YOU CONSIDERED IMPORTANT BEFORE? THESE ARE QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING BEFORE A RETURN TO NORMALCY, WHATEVER NORMALCY WILL LOOK LIKE. I SUSPECT IT WILL NOT LOOK LIKE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 7, 2020          HE’S CALLED “THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER” IN A WASHINGTON POST OPINION PIECE BY ANTI-TRUMP COLUMNIST MAX BOOT WHO PICKS THE CORONAVIRUS AS THE MAIN REASON FOR HIS JUDGMENT.    BOOT NEVER CREDITED TRUMP DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION WHEN THINGS WERE GOING WELL, THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 6, 2020          THIS WEEK IS REFERRED TO BY SOME AS HOLY WEEK, THE DAYS BETWEEN PALM SUNDAY, GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER MORNING. NONE OF US WILL BE OBSERVING AND CELEBRATING, ESPECIALLY EASTER, IN OUR CHURCHES BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS. IT’S THE FIRST TIME THAT HAS HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY’S HISTORY.         …