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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: PBS show is modern version of ‘This is Your Life’

“Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is another of the Harvard professor’s wonderful television series for PBS. This is “must-see TV” and a more than worthy sequel to three previous projects Gates has hosted about how some of us came to be what and who we are.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Transformation was authentic for Charles Colson

Chuck Colson was an ex-Marine and Nixon’s “hatchet man” who enjoyed going to any lengths to ensure his boss got his way, including re-election in 1972, as the Watergate scandal was just breaking.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Santorum had a dream, albeit a truly impossible one

Rick Santorum’s greatest contribution to the Republican campaign may have been to force the now presumed nominee, Mitt Romney, to the right.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: GOP has opportunity to seize on Horatio Alger's legacy

The Republican Party is missing a great opportunity to resurrect Horatio Alger and return him to the center of American society.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: What now for Republicans?

Rick Santorum deserves credit for his impressive primary victories in Mississippi and Alabama. Newt Gingrich led us to believe he would win both states. He didn’t.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Limbaugh offers a sincere apology

The first apology by Rush Limbaugh, posted on his website over a weekend, sounded forced, qualified, almost defensive. The second, broadcast live on his March 5 show, sounded sincere and heartfelt.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: US troops must leave Afghanistan immediately

Are we to stay only until after the election so President Obama won’t be asked, “Who lost Afghanistan?” If our troops are coming out anyway and if the administration can’t define victory, or commit the resources necessary to achieve it, waiting longer only ensures more casualties.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Is censorship the new pluralism?

Pat Buchanan might have seen the end of the line coming at MSNBC when last month network president Phil Griffin commented on his latest book, “Suicide of a Superpower,” by saying, “I don’t think the ideas that (Buchanan) put forth are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC.”

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Tackling rising unemployment a positive move for candidates

The Obama administration is touting the latest unemployment numbers released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor as proof its policies are working. But a closer look at the actual number of able-bodied people who are willing to work, but are not, reveals a different picture.

• Cal Thomas

THOMAS: Obama's Bible quote sounds like Karl Marx

For 60 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a Higher Authority. Last Thursday, President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement of Jesus for raising taxes.

• Cal Thomas