Cal Thomas: A deal with the devil

Columns & Analysis

Published
February 6, 2022

Cal Thomas: A deal with the devil

Is that not what especially evangelicals and others who highly regard personal integrity in our leaders have done with Donald Trump? Does the end justify meanness and lying? Can they ever credibly question the behavior and language of future presidents when they have sold their souls on this big question?
Published
February 6, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Let teachers teach!

How about we respect educators as the trained professionals they are? How about we trust their judgment? How about we stop requiring them to reach consensus with those who have not the first clue? If a parent feels their child can’t handle some challenging material, fine: empower that parent to opt the child out of the lesson — not to deny the lesson to everyone else.
Published
February 5, 2022

Froma Harrop: Death of a beauty queen

Why did Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA with law degree, an MBA and an on-camera gig on "Extra," a celebrity TV show, leap to her death from a posh Manhattan apartment? As the cliche goes, she had everything to live for.
Published
February 5, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The nastiness oozes northward

While we in Maine hunkered down last Saturday waiting out the heaviest snowfall of the winter (until then), our neighbors in Canada were coping with what seemed almost deja vu all over again. A protest rally gone sour.
Published
February 5, 2022

Rich Lowry: Putin, not NATO, is to blame

The North Atlantic Trade Organization is a defensive alliance. No one sincerely believes, not even the Kremlin, that it is going to wage a war of aggression against Russia. Think about it. Since when does Russia have more to fear from, say, Estonia or Poland — countries on the eastern flank of NATO — than they have to fear from Russia?

Published
February 4, 2022

Robert Casimiro: The real story of border enforcement

The Border Patrol’s role is to prevent illegal entry into the country, but this outcry of abuse is always one sided. There is another side, one of valuable, effective enforcement, and even timely, humanitarian actions by these underappreciated officials.
Published
February 3, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Achieving diversity requires intentionality

If you are counting on it to simply happen by dint of white males’ good intentions and pure hearts, you will be waiting a very long time.
Published
February 3, 2022

Rich Lowry: Why Biden can’t embrace COVID normality

By more fully embracing an approach geared to living with COVID and returning to normality, Biden could usefully play against type, align himself with shifting public opinion, and acknowledge the reality of the third year of the pandemic when vaccines and boosters are easily available to anyone who wants them.
Published
February 2, 2022

Froma Harrop: Identity politics on Supreme Court must be subtle

The problem is not nominating a Black woman to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. There are plenty of qualified legal scholars who are Black and female. The problem is making a big announcement that only Black women need apply.
Published
February 2, 2022

Cal Thomas: Crime and a widow’s eloquence

The tendency is to forget monstrous events as other stories take their place. Recent police killings in New York, Harris County, Texas, and elsewhere must not be forgotten, lest they become more common and public safety is further compromised. Ultimately, it is up to voters to put people in office who will do more than offer "thoughts and prayers."

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