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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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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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John Calvin Thomas
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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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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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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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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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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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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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