Cal Thomas: Back to what type of school?

Columns & Analysis

Published
August 20, 2023

Cal Thomas: Back to what type of school?

As millions of children return to public school, it’s a good idea to again examine what they are being taught and what is being left out. It also offers an annual opportunity for parents to ask if their kids are being educated or indoctrinated.
Published
August 20, 2023

Austin Bay: The Biden administration’s Afghanistan bug-out continues to have disastrous consequences

Americans aren't dying from Afghan-exported terrorism — not yet.
Published
August 20, 2023

Froma Harrop: What’s happening to people?

America is the land of plenty, but to many, it's become a world of envy and anger. Nowadays, malcontents seem to feel more entitled to act out in anti-social ways.
Published
August 20, 2023

Clarence Page: Will the upending of the ‘Blind Side’ story help chill Hollywood’s ‘white savior’ complex?

Of course, I’m not opposed to white actors or characters. I’d just like to see the sort of diversity that roughly reflects our cultural diversity and fully developed characters who reflect what we humans increasingly can see is real life — here and around the globe.
Published
August 19, 2023

Clarence Page: Why #MontgomeryRiverfrontBrawl gained new meaning in Black conversations

The sight of Black people rushing to the defense of an endangered Black person and the police responding by properly subduing the suspects, especially in a city with all the historical baggage Montgomery carries with it from the civil rights era, you gain a new appreciation of how the system can work, when it’s supposed to. You can see it in the tweets.

Published
August 19, 2023

Rich Lowry: How Eric Adams has vindicated immigration restrictionism

In his desperate pleas for federal help to deal with about 100,000 migrants who have come to New York City since the spring of 2022, Mayor Eric Adams is vindicating the hawkish position on immigration with almost every utterance.
Published
August 19, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The most interesting state that isn’t named Maine

I narrowed to three a list of interesting states. Minnesota, North Carolina and Virginia. Minnesota for Scandinavian culture and terrific cities, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth. North Carolina for diverse culture, mountains and the Outer Banks. But I settled on Virginia.
Published
August 17, 2023

Froma Harrop: Trump’s nightmare: A prosecutor who can’t be baited

Special Counsel Jack Smith, now as in earlier prosecutions, has shown he knows narcissists' ways. And that is to ignore the baiting, even intimidation via calls to violence by pathetic thugs who might do what they think they're told.
Published
August 16, 2023

Cal Thomas: Arms or money for hostages: What’s the difference?

The Biden administration is transferring $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea to an account in Qatar, which Iran will be able to access, in what appears to be an attempt to get Iran to release five imprisoned Americans.
Published
August 14, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond picks up where it went wrong

Working in Overstock's favor is its strong balance sheet. The company has $343 million in net cash that could help what is likely to be a turbulent next chapter.