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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
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Radio Personality
Washington
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John Calvin Thomas
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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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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
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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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If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
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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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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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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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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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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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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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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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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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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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In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.
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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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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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