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Syndicated political columnist

Syndicated political columnist and “On Faith” panelist Cal Thomas has a twice-weekly column that appears in over 500 newspapers around the world. A graduate of American University, Thomas is a veteran of broadcast and print journalism. He has worked for NBC, CNBC, PBS television, and the Fox News Channel where he currently appears on the weekly media critique show, “Fox News Watch.” Thomas has authored ten books, including Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America?, A Freedom Dream, Public Persons and Private Lives, Book Burning, Liberals for Lunch, Occupied Territory, The Death of Ethics in America, Uncommon Sense and Things That Matter Most. His latest was The Wit and Wisdom of Cal Thomas. In 1995, Thomas was honored with a Cable Ace Award nomination for Best Interview Program. Other awards include a George Foster Peabody team reporting award, and awards from both the Associated Press and United Press International. Common Ground, which Thomas writes for USA Today, offers insightful discussion of contentious social issues with his friend and political counterpart, Bob Beckel. The two are working together on a book to be published in 2007. Close.

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Syndicated political columnist

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Asked and Answered by Email

Anything that saves time and postage, which is going up again, is a blessing. The curse, of course, is that you are never out of touch.

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garyd:

The problem isn't e-mail. It is people. The same goes for the blessing.

March 13, 2008 1:27 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on March 13, 2008 13:27

Godfree Mann:

How nice,

no Jacob Josevz anymore.

March 12, 2008 11:01 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on March 12, 2008 23:01

BGone:

Cal, you bring to mind that rally bad movie where the computer took over the dooms day train or something like that. When the general said, "unplug the #%$#@$# thing" he was told it couldn't be unplugged.

Now that's what we need to worry about. Of course, eventually computers will learn to reproduce themselves, as if things weren't bad enough as is.

Here's a line fer ya, "Sorry, my computer has a bad virus and I can't read or answer my mail until it gets over it." That way "selected" people won't know you're ignoring them even though you're not.

March 12, 2008 2:06 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on March 12, 2008 14:06

Andrea:

But, Cal...

One of the reasons for the postage hike is increasing reliance on email.

This is timely - the mail carrier just dropped of my incoming mail. He asked if I had anything to go out, and after I replied "No," he said "Shame on you."

March 12, 2008 10:57 AM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on March 12, 2008 10:57

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