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Cal Thomas: Evil co-exists with the good
Responding to the recent Las Vegas concert shooting that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds more, President Trump described the act as one ...
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Cal Thomas: Unnecessary roughness from NFL?
If you like professional sports, a major reason — perhaps the reason — you attend games, or watch them on TV, is that it helps ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:02 pm
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Cal Thomas: Trump runs an option play
What just happened? President Trump cut a deal with Democrats to pay for hurricane damage relief and raise the debt ceiling without getting anything in ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:18 pm
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Cal Thomas: Tragedy in Charlottesville and the stain of slavery
In the South during the Jim Crow era, the “one-drop rule,” codified into law, asserted that if a person had just one drop of African-American ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:06 pm
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Cal Thomas: Problems Reagan fought are still around
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”(French proverb) While scanning YouTube, I came across an appearance by Ronald Reagan on “The Tonight ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:47 pm
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Cal Thomas: Trump as insulter-in-chief
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” — Proverbs 15:1 President Trump once referred to the health care bill ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 5:12 pm
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Cal Thomas: Unhealthy acts go beyond Obamacare
Is there anyone who can point to the “Affordable Care Act” (aka Obamacare) and credibly claim it is accomplishing the goals set for it seven ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, June 27, 2017 6:48 pm
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Cal Thomas: Why is there so much rage in politics?
“Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?” — Psalm 2:1 KJV That didn’t take long. Less than 48 hours after ...
by Cal Thomas, Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:13 pm
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Cal Thomas: Lying liars and putting policy first
“I’ll never lie to you.” — Jimmy Carter, 1976 presidential campaign All politicians lie, because they are human and all humans lie. The question before ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, June 14, 2017 9:31 pm
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Cal Thomas: The genius of Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes was no genius, not in the league of Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. The founding chairman of Fox News Channel, who died last ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 9:21 pm
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Cal Thomas: Please stop the insults, Mr. President
During an interview last June in his New York office, I asked Donald Trump about his use of language that many considered insulting and divisive. ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:49 pm
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Cal Thomas: Obama cashes in, just as those before him did
The headline in the March 5, 1929 edition of the Chicago Tribune read, “Plain Citizen Coolidge Shuts Desk and Quietly Goes Home.” Calvin Coolidge would ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 8:05 pm
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Cal Thomas: What next for N. Korea?
There was a moment at Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s White House briefing Monday that was significant. Asked by a reporter about North Korea’s missile launch ...
by Cal Thomas, Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: Executing the guilty and the innocent in Arkansas
Nearly three dozen men sit on death row in Arkansas, where capital punishment has been suspended since 2005. Unless clemency is granted, seven of them, ...
by Cal Thomas, Monday, April 17, 2017 12:07 am
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Cal Thomas: The siren call of the Middle East for politicians
In Greek mythology, sirens were beautiful creatures that lured sailors to their doom with their hypnotic voices. In Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey,” ships came to ...
by Cal Thomas, Thursday, April 13, 2017 12:20 am
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Cal Thomas: Mr. President, personality is not policy
In the aftermath of the debacle over the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Trump can learn a valuable lesson that will serve ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:26 pm
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Cal Thomas: Lax laws led to brutal rape of teen
A rough translation of Maryland’s state motto is “Strong Deeds, Gentle Words.” In the case of a 14-year-old girl who was recently raped in a restroom ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:26 pm
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Cal Thomas: America’s longest war
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to spend $1.4 billion of New York’s resources to solve the persistent problem of poverty in central Brooklyn. If he wins ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:21 am
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Cal Thomas: The Trump effect on economy is more important than Russian rumors
Here are two scenarios. One: you are a retiree who in recent years has been concerned about the value of your stock portfolio. Suddenly, the ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 10:42 pm
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Cal Thomas: President reinvents himself
For Republicans who have been concerned that President Trump has not been specific about his policies and about where he wants to take the country, ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:52 pm
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Cal Thomas: DeVos ‘will not be deterred’ in changing education
American public school students fall well behind students around the world in math and science proficiency. This is not debatable. According to the Trends in ...
by Cal Thomas, Sunday, February 19, 2017 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: Sometimes walls work
While the debate continues about when, how quickly and who will pay for a “wall” across America’s Southern border, at least one country known for ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 4:10 pm
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Cal Thomas: Careful what you wish for, churches
At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, President Trump promised to “totally destroy” the so-called “Johnson Amendment,” a law that prohibits churches from endorsing or ...
by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:51 pm
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Cal Thomas: The left’s narrative
Just days into the Trump administration, the left’s narrative is clear. First, it was that Trump is an “illegitimate” president because he didn’t win the ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 11:00 pm
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Cal Thomas: Feeling good (so far)
“It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life For me And I’m feeling good.” — “Feeling Good” President Trump’s critics are ...
by Cal Thomas, Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:27 am
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Not so Golden Globes
Meryl Streep has played many roles in her long career and holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor. Among her ...
by Cal Thomas, Thursday, January 12, 2017 12:00 am
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Cal Thomas: Chicago and lives that matter
Chicago has come a long way from the idealized lyric “my kind of town, Chicago is,” which Frank Sinatra made famous. True, Chicago has a ...
by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 10:07 pm
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Cal Thomas: Obama to Israel, ‘Drop dead’
A headline that would become famous appeared in the New York Daily News in October 1975 after then-President Gerald Ford denied federal assistance to spare ...