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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: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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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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We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
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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 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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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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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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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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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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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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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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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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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
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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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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
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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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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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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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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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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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