Cal Thomas: School daze

Columns & Analysis

Published
January 12, 2022

Cal Thomas: School daze

For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the Omicron variant as their excuse.
Published
January 10, 2022

If Jan. 6 had been a movie, the cops would’ve been the heroes

Capitol Police Officer Marcus Moore "is haunted by the memory of being attacked, and of the sensory impacts — most particularly the explosions of flashbangs and other devices, as well as the sights, sounds, smells, and even tastes of the attack remain close to the surface." Most of the officers who survived had to suit up and head right back out for work the next day. And again. And again.
Published
January 10, 2022

Is a patient hospitalized ‘with’ COVID or ‘for’ COVID? It can be hard to tell.

Overestimates of the incidental COVID rate will make the current wave seem milder than it really is. At the same time, undercounting incidental cases will lead to overstatements of COVID's current severity. Both kinds of errors will cloud our vision at a time when we need a clear-eyed view of the pandemic.
Published
January 10, 2022

‘Lying flat’ without health insurance is very uncomfortable

The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms the less romantic reality that my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Justin Fox and others have identified — the record percentage of Americans quitting their jobs is being driven by turnover among low-income workers in certain industries, not by burned out white-collar workers.
Published
January 9, 2022

Cal Thomas: Chuck Schumer’s hypocrisy

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ... has set the middle of the month as his target for changing the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation. That Schumer has opposed what he now proposes is well-documented for anyone taking the time to do even minimal research, which most of the major media appears unwilling to do.

Published
January 9, 2022

Froma Harrop: The MeToo defense was beneath her dignity

Elizabeth Holmes was just found guilty on four counts of fraud for lying to investors in her quest to raise money for her company, Theranos. It turned out that her blood-testing technology never worked.
Published
January 9, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘What kind of nation are we going to be?’

For generations, the answer was a given. We were a nation of laws. A nation of democratic principles. A nation that knew its greatness sprang from its goodness. And most of all, a nation that aspired. Meaning that, even when — as frequently happened — America failed its lofty ideals, it at least had ideals to fail.
Published
January 9, 2022

Rich Lowry: The left supports the constitution — except when it doesn’t

Democrats are entertaining ideas — whether blowing up the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, adding new states for partisan advantage — that violate the kind of norms they always cited in opposing Trump.
Published
January 8, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Can meat prices be lowered?

President Joe Biden, trying to take the edge off our inflationary spiral, has gone after the meat and poultry industries. His target is worthy, but his tools and his aim are lousy.
Published
January 7, 2022

Austin Bay: This year’s 4 strategic challenges

As 2022 begins, four strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order generate the psychological ambiguity — meaning plain old human fear — that fosters ethnic and sectarian slaughter and seeds the kind of bloody "proxy" wars that escalate into major regional wars.

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