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Cal Thomas: Is Europe awakening to the threat?
Much of Europe was asleep, or in denial, when the Nazis took power and began rebuilding their military in violation of the Versailles Treaty that ...
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Cal Thomas: Calling Trumpers ‘cult-like’ doesn’t give them cr
Bob Corker, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, recently compared supporters of President Trump to members of a cult. The Washington Post quoted Corker as ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, July 7, 2018 3:31 pm
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Cal Thomas: Back to the Constitution
The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court is about to bring a 60-year battle to a head. For decades the country ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, June 30, 2018 8:03 pm
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Cal Thomas: Ireland’s voters make historic decision on abortion
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, June 2, 2018 3:45 pm
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Cal Thomas: NFL isn’t through cleaning up its house
It took two years, boycotts by fans, declining TV ratings, growing alarm among advertisers, a drop in the sale of gear and especially a public ...
by Cal Thomas, Sunday, May 27, 2018 12:00 am
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When did US debt stop mattering?
From a Tribune Media column by Cal Thomas: If the only motivation for Republicans is the next election, and the one after that, ad infinitum, ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:13 pm
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Cal Thomas: The bitterness tour never ends
MELBOURNE, Australia — When you hear “world tour” you usually think of superstars performing concerts in various cities for adoring fans. Not so with the ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, May 16, 2018 10:39 am
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Cal Thomas: ‘Crazy Bernie’ is at it again
There he goes again. Despite the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years, including declining rates for minorities, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), affectionately called “crazy Bernie” ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, April 28, 2018 12:24 pm
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Cal Thomas: Following Jesus or Trump?
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: Is ‘old fashioned’ returning?
It’s a modern changing world Everything is moving fast. But when it comes to love I like What they did in the past. — The ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:27 pm
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Cal Thomas: Critics not dealing well with Trump’s success
President Trump’s critics, who include many establishment Republicans, are finding themselves left with few issues given the president’s recent string of successes. How difficult it ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 9:46 pm
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Cal Thomas: Only a fool would believe North Korea
To what shall North Korea’s latest pronouncement to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for certain “security” guarantees be compared? Choose from one of ...
by Cal Thomas, Monday, March 12, 2018 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: Deterrence can work
MIAMI — The list of failures in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are becoming legion. If ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 27, 2018 4:17 pm
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Cal Thomas: The Billy Graham I knew, and the grace of humility
In my long career in journalism, I have met many famous people, but none of them impressed me as much as William Franklin “Billy” Graham. ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, February 24, 2018 12:23 pm
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Drowning in debt: Republican deficits no better than Democrats’
In “Hamlet,” Shakespeare pens one of the most familiar lines — and best advice — ever written. Before Laertes leaves for Paris, his father, Polonius, ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, February 14, 2018 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: Prison reform — the time is now
It didn’t seem to fit in President Trump’s State of the Union address, perhaps something tossed in at the last minute, like a garnish. But ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, February 10, 2018 9:58 pm
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Cal Thomas: Oprah, the latest messiah?
The ancient Greeks referred to the dramatic moment in some of their plays as “deus ex machina,” the god from the machine. The term, introduced ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:18 pm
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Cal Thomas: Character counts, but voters want results more
I do not make it a practice to comment on the work of fellow columnists. An exception will be made here because of New York Times ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 11:17 pm
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A government ‘refund’
So, a Republican majority Congress has “reformed” the tax code for the first time in 31 years, allowing us to keep a little more of ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, December 20, 2017 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: No king but Caesar
In September 1862, a group of Chicago ministers sent a “memorial” (or long letter) to President Abraham Lincoln in which they made a theological argument ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:08 am
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Cal Thomas: Memo to Jared Kushner
President Trump’s son-in-law and designated Middle East peace envoy, Jared Kushner, told the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum last weekend that a peace agreement between Israel ...
by Cal Thomas, Friday, December 8, 2017 7:42 pm
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Cal Thomas: Starving the beast
One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the Senate, if it clears a conference with ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 10:28 pm
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Cal Thomas: The return of virtue
Rarely has the idiom “virtue is its own reward” looked better than it does in light of the sex scandals sweeping the nation. The so-called ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, December 2, 2017 6:56 pm
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Cal Thomas: Better late than never on Bill Clinton?
The English poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer, is generally credited with coining the phrase that has been updated in modern English to read, ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:16 pm
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Cal Thomas: The corruption of faith
When Jim Zeigler, the state auditor of Alabama, invoked the Bible to defend Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore against allegations that he had inappropriate contact ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, November 14, 2017 8:28 pm
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Cal Thomas: Meet the Houdinis
How do they do it? I am not the first to compare the Clintons to Harry Houdini, the great magician and escape artist, but Bill ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:34 pm
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Cal Thomas: #MeToo: My daughter and granddaughter too
While trying not to indulge in schadenfreude over those hypocritical Hollywood elites who’ve claimed to stand for “women’s rights,” only to be accused of sexually ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 9:12 pm
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Cal Thomas: Trump heads, Pence tails
If a metaphor could be used for this White House, it might be a two-sided coin with President Trump the head and Vice President Mike ...