Cal Thomas has always been an exceptional writer and a principled, engaging, and consistently Christian man. But this book (it’s not the only one I’ve read of his) is remarkably wise and helpful to those who desire to efficiently engage the culture for good…while yet embracing the limitations of politics or any other merely human effort.
Let me give you just 4 examples from my reading so far. And, rest assured, if you could look at the many starred and underlined pages in my copy, you’d know I could give you a lot more.
From his review of the year 1987: “I interviewed Secretary of Education William Bennett who told me he believed it would take another ten years to undo the damage caused to public school students because of political meddling and social experimentation that resulted in declining test scores and underqualified teachers. Unfortunately, things have only gotten worse with even more social experimentation (now known as critical race theory and wokeness). I will repeat myself: we should stop giving them the ‘raw material’ to create new generations of secular progressives and start sending them to private schools (I favor vouchers which are now allowed in several states) and to universities that do not undermine our history, traditions, values, and faith.” (Page 29)
From his review of the year 1992: “Lyndon Johnson used to say his grandfather died at the Alamo. He later told author Doris Kearns Goodwin that his grandfather really died at the battle of San Jacinto during the fight for Texas independence from Mexico, but he called it the Alamo because more people had heard of it. The truth was that Johnson’s grandfather died in neither battle. He died in bed. Shades to come with a similar habit of lies told by Joe Biden.” (Page 70)
From his review of the year 2002: “General Electric released a TV ad touting its new 4D Ultrasound machine that showed a baby developing inside its mother. Over the song ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,’ an announcer said, ‘When you see your baby for the first time on the new GE 4D Ultrasound, it really is a miracle.’ GE may not have intended its new device to act as a powerful pro-life statement, but that’s what it became. Surveys showed that when abortion-minded women see an image of their child, they mostly choose to give birth. It is why the pro-death cult wants to exterminate them before they start looking ‘human.’” (Page 152)
From his review of the year 2003: “To Democrats, government is the only entity that can make your life better. The successful must be punished, because if initiative, hard work, and taking care of yourself catch on, people might wake up to the lies they’ve been told by the Democrat party and start taking care of themselves.” (Page 156)
