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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
Streets
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Anguished
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Homes
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Souls
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Soul
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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
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People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?
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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
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I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.
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Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.
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To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.
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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
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