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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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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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Washington
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John Calvin Thomas
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Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.
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No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.
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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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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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The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
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The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
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Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
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If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.
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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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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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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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The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.
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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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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.
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So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
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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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No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.
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