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OPINION: Lessons of their elders lost on OWS protesters

For more than half my life I was a 99-percenter. I kept my first pay stubs in the news business to remind me where I came from and what was necessary in order to get where I am today.

• Cal Thomas

OPINION: Democrats play black people as suckers to party

At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. Barack Obama said, “...There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there is the United States of America.”

• Cal Thomas

OPINION: Texas isn’t easy to explain, and brief visit isn’t enough to learn

The cultural and media snobs are trying to explain Texas to those who don’t know the difference between a steer and a bull. If you fall into this category, a steer has been castrated — a bull has not. I’ll leave any analogy to East and West Coast elites for you to sort out.

• Cal Thomas

OPINION: Obama like lost man who won’t seek directions

Nearly every time President Obama delivers a speech about the economy or jobs, something bad happens. His speech to Congress last Thursday night is the latest example. The next day, the Dow Jones Industrial Averages plunged 303 points, a decline replicated in other indexes in the U.S. and overseas.

• Cal Thomas

OPINION: McGovern and not-perfect Mark Hatfield were right about Vietnam

The McGovern-Hatfield amendment, had it passed, would have set a deadline for the end of U.S. military operations in South Vietnam. McGovern-Hatfield became “the most outstanding defiance of executive power regarding the war prior to 1971,” writes Wikipedia. That defiance is repeated today in debates over wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and the use of U.S. military might around the world.

OPINION: Fox News will be fine, prosper

PORTSTEWART, Northern Ireland — “Glee” is not just an American TV show, it is also the emotion many people feel and express toward the trouble Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is having, since they consider Murdoch’s properties a blight on their formerly pristine media landscape.

OPINION: Something’s wrong with president’s war on successful

If new millionaires or billionaires were created every time President Obama and his fellow liberals disparage “millionaires and billionaires,” there would be far more of them than there are today. And that would be a good thing because it would mean more people are succeeding.

OPINION: Big media struggling to maintain, and for good reason

Is there a profit-making business — other than TV networks and The New York Times — that so disrespects its audience it works overtime to offend them?

OPINION: It’s a time for sadness for disgraced congressman

“A member ... officer or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.” — Code of Official Conduct, Rule XXIII, Clause 1

OPINION: Are Palin’s e-mails really this important to the world?

If the big media in 2008 had dedicated the resources they are now squandering on Sarah Palin’s e-mails from when she was governor of Alaska and probed Barack Obama’s background and associations, she might now be vice president of the United States and Obama might still be a junior Illinois senator.

Columns

THOMAS: Britain's hateful politics

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain's far left that takes bad taste to new extremes.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Little hope in 'Arab Spring'

The New York Times headlined a recent story: "Muslim Brotherhood's Statement on Women Stirs Liberals' Fears." What took them so long? It isn't like the fundamentalist Muslim position on women is new.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Big government 2.0

Bill Clinton isn’t often wrong when it comes to politics, but his assertion in his 1996 State of the Union Address that “the era of big government is over” was a bit premature.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Taxpayers, revolt!

Congress returned to “work” this week (now there’s a laugh) to complete its lame-duck session before taking another holiday. Spending other people’s money is a taxing experience.

• Cal Thomas

Sex and the city (of Washington)

Bill Clinton didn’t have to resign after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

• WTOP's list of notorious Washington sex scandals
• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: America is changing

A look at the electoral map indicates the Republican Party won in square miles. Unfortunately for them, electoral votes, not landmass, won President Obama a second term.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: McGovern was patriot, friend

Former South Dakota Democratic Sen. George McGovern, who died Sunday, had all manner of evil said about him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: ‘Total reprobate’

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is on a media tour promoting his book, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.” It certainly is.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Romney’s taxes: Who really cares?

Did anyone think the release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns would satisfy Democrats and make them focus on the real issues in this campaign, including President Obama’s failed domestic and foreign policy record and approaching massive tax increases?

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: War through weakness

“How could this happen?” asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.

• Cal Thomas