Cal Thomas: beautiful tribute to his brother on his "valuable life"

Cal Thomas writes a beautiful tribute to his brother Marshall who died January 5th at the age of 62. He was diagnosed with Down Syndrome shortly following his birth.

"In an age when we discard the inconvenient and unwanted in order to pursue pleasure and a life free of burdens, this may seem strange to some. I recall a line from the long-running Broadway musical, "The Fantasticks": "Deep in December, it's nice to remember, without a hurt the heart is hollow."

Marshall Thomas' "hurts" filled a number of hollow hearts.

At the end of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," George Bailey reads an inscription in a book given to him by Clarence, his guardian angel: "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."
No life is a failure when it causes so many to care for others. At that my brother succeeded magnificently."

Thomas: Ultrasounds and Airline safety

Cal Thomas wrote an excellent column about the judge in NC granting a preliminary injunction to the new provision in the law that would requires a woman seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound within four hours of the an abortion. Of course the abortion industry opposes this and says it requires women to become "virtual billboards" ??? Really! Is this imagine being broadcast outside of the patient room?
Cal points out how ridiculous this is. The judge says the first amendment of free speech includes when you choose not to speak.


Cal Thomas makes a great analogy to listening to the airplane safety instructions each and every time you fly even though those very same instructions are printed in a card in the back pocket of each seat. Listening to those instructions might upset you, especially the part about what to do in a crash landing. I also note that they talk about a potential crash landing over  water even when I am flying from Nashville to Green Bay and will not be over any water.

"A federal mandate requires agriculture employers to provide an oral warning to employees of certain pesticide applications in greenhouses, farms, nurseries and forests. Another requires a home health agency to orally disclose to a patient prior to giving them care the extent to which payment may be expected from the federal government and how much the individual must pay. The comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC require banks that sell insurance to orally disclose to the consumer that the insurance is not FDIC insured."

Thomas concludes and rightly so that this decision  is "unabashedly political. How can  speech containing factual information violate the First Amendment, which is all about protecting, not restricting, speech?"

We know that as high as 90% of the women who view an ultrasound and are given factual information about fetal development will not choose abortion. Viewing the ultrasound makes it harder for the abortion industry to  call the offspring just  a clump of cells.  This is their real objection. They say that the pro life people want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Well the abortion industry wants to keep women uninformed so  that their pregnancy can be $$wiped out again and again. Repeat customers  are the backbone of every business.  Remember that their core business is abortion....parenting or adoption does not ring the til.

Palin and death panels...First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

This is what came to mind when I read this column by Cal Thomas stating that Sarah Palin is owed an apology by the MSM who mocked her....and now are stating to break the news of the death panel that they laughed at.

Cal Thomas: Evolutionists are deaf to the uniqueness of human life

 Tennessean had a great column from Cal Thomas but relegated it to the online version only......figures... it does not fit in with their liberal group think.

In ret­ro­spect, great hor­rors are usu­ally seen as spring­ing up full-formed. Many peo­ple didn’t notice the small steps that led to the Nazi Holo­caust or to the sell­ing of African slaves in the pub­lic square. Senses must first be dulled; reli­gion triv­i­al­ized; and self enthroned before tol­er­ance for the hor­rific is accepted.

Amer­i­can nov­el­ist Walker Percy saw clearly where the tin­ker­ing with human life leads. In The Thanatos Syn­drome, Percy wrote, “You are a mem­ber of the first gen­er­a­tion of doc­tors in the his­tory of med­i­cine to turn their backs on the oath of Hip­pocrates and kill mil­lions of old, use­less peo­ple, unborn chil­dren, born mal­formed chil­dren, for the good of mankind — and to do so with­out a sin­gle mur­mur from one of you.