Cal was straight to the point in his analysis of our current social climate but was hilarious in his way of making a case for DCS. . . . his comedic delivery opened the door to everyone's heart to receive the challenge he made to support DCS.
For 19 years Thomas appeared on Fox News as part of the "Fox News Watch" panel and for two of those years, he hosted his own show "After Hours" on Saturday night. For ten years he co-authored the Common Ground column for USA Today with his friend Bob Beckel.
Thomas is one of the most widely syndicated columnists in the country. He is newly married to"CJ" and after many years in the Washington, DC area, now lives in Key Largo, Florida where his wife owns the highly popular restaurant, The Fish House.
Over a half-century journalistic career, Thomas has met every president since John Kennedy and has interviewed several of them. He is a popular speaker on the lecture. circuit and raises sometimes record amounts of money for nonprofit groups.
In the past 40 years we have tried everything as a people in a sincere effort to solve some major problems. These have included bigger government and the higher taxes and increased spending that support it, to more recent proposals for smaller government, lower taxes and less spending. We have tried "alternative lifestyles" and different living arrangements, two income families in order to keep up with what culture dictates are our needs, while often ignoring what we and our increasingly neglected children really need. Now, our children are exacting revenge. At the extreme they are shooting other children in school. According to Time magazine, elementary school children are now engaging in sex with no remorse and no sense that what they are doing is wrong or even bad for them. What happened to self-evident truth to which our founders appealed? What profit is it, as an ancient text inquires, if we gain great material wealth and corporate success, but lose our souls? Is it too late to recover a moral sense, or does the new century and second millennium offer a unique opportunity to begin again?
The 60's were more than rock and roll, campus sit-ins and assassinations. The children of that generation dropped a nuclear bomb on our culture, the fallout from which continues to infect our national psyche and our personal lives. From big government, to education, to the media the 60's continue to be re-played to a new generation by the generation that tried to "seize the time" while seeing real life slip through their fingers. The most self-indulgent generation in history grew up, but it never matured.