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Remember Christmas? Political focus puts faith in wrong place

Familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt. Not if it’s a familiarity with Christmas. While America and much of the world are focusing attention on the coming ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, December 22, 2016 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: We were a better nation in 1941

Only five of the 335 men who survived the unprovoked attack that sunk the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941 remain alive. Donald Stratton, 94, ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:39 am

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Cal Thomas: For secretary of state …

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering seriously at least two men for the critical position of secretary of state. One, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, December 4, 2016 4:19 pm

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Cal Thomas: We won, you lost — get over it

Three years ago when Republicans were battling President Obama over the debt ceiling and a government shutdown, the president said, “You don’t like a particular ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:11 pm

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Cal Thomas: Trump’s chance to change the narrative

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s impressive victory in Tuesday’s election offers him a rare opportunity to change the narrative. Secular progressive policies at home and ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 9, 2016 6:49 pm

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Cal Thomas: The Sanders effect

Beware of the envy-greed-entitlement mindset Many millennials are OK with socialism, even communism, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by The Victims of Communism Memorial ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:36 pm

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Cal Thomas: Bickersons again?

Not since George and Martha in the play “Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” or for older readers Don Ameche and Frances Langford in the radio ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, October 13, 2016 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Here’s how Trump can do better in next debate

Donald Trump scored a gentleman’s “C” in his first debate with Hillary Clinton. She was programmed, like one of those androids from the film “Westworld,” ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:00 pm

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Cal Thomas: Two takes on terrorism

The terrorist bombings in New York and New Jersey, which injured 29, and the terrorist stabbings in Minnesota, which injured nine, were nowhere near as ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, September 21, 2016 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Try these questions during debate

Next week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could determine the outcome of the election. As polls show Trump leading in some swing ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, September 19, 2016 10:40 pm

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Cal Thomas: The deplorables

Every now and again secular progressives rip off their mask and tell conservatives what they really think of them. At an LGBT fundraiser last Friday ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 10:36 pm

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Cal Thomas: Clinton works from Nixon playbook

One wouldn’t think Hillary Clinton and former President Richard Nixon would have a lot in common, but in responding to FBI investigators that she “could ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, September 10, 2016 1:09 pm

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Cal Thomas: What the past teaches us

While we shouldn’t live in the past, we can certainly learn from it. We are not the first humans to walk the Earth and yet ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, August 16, 2016 6:05 pm

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Cal Thomas: Hillary’s recycled speech

Environmentalists should be pleased with Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, because it was largely recycled talking points we have ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, July 30, 2016 3:16 pm

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Cal Thomas: The race narrative

Last week, two African-American men were shot and killed by non-African-American police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana and five non-African-American police officers were shot and ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, July 11, 2016 7:03 pm

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Cal Thomas: A free pass for Hillary

FBI Director James Comey has given Hillary Clinton something better than a get out of jail free card. He’s protected her from indictment by recommending ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, July 6, 2016 7:33 pm

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Cal Thomas: Declaration of war is needed

Credit President Obama for finally using the words he has desperately tried to avoid during his presidency. He correctly called the mass shooting in an ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Snoop Dogg is right

My musical tastes do not include rap and hip-hop, but when Snoop Dogg comments on the “Roots” remake, saying he is tired of movies about ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, June 1, 2016 5:21 pm

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Cal Thomas: Trump’s Supreme Court

In releasing his list of potential Supreme Court nominees, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has begun to solidify his support among conservatives as ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, May 24, 2016 6:55 pm

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Cal Thomas: McCrory unafraid to fight for HB2

Standing on principle, not to mention common sense, is so rare these days that when someone does it they make headlines. That’s because you can ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:17 pm

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Cal Thomas: Trump needs shadow cabinet

A British shadow cabinet is made up of a group of senior people from the opposition party who create an alternative cabinet to that of ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, May 7, 2016 11:10 pm

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Cal Thomas: The felon vote

Thanks to Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-Va.) 200,000 convicted felons in the state of Virginia may now register to vote. Writes The Washington Post, “The change ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 4:47 pm

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Cal Thomas: Congress still wasting taxpayers’ money

As the tax deadline approaches it’s once again time to consider how the federal government wastes our money. Remember the spending caps that were supposed ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, April 17, 2016 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Can’t we do better?

Occasionally I am asked if I ever considered running for political office. My response: “I did once, but I took two aspirin, lay down for ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, April 5, 2016 9:31 pm

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Cal Thomas: Sanders wrong about poverty

In his continuing effort to pit races and classes against each other, Democratic presidential candidate and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has said that if ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, March 12, 2016 6:16 pm

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Cal Thomas: Politics devolves to sewer level

I was going to write about how the Republican presidential campaign has become gutter politics, but given Donald Trump’s horrid statements, the gutter would be ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:52 pm

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Cal Thomas: ‘Itching ears’ for Trump

Since religious language has again infected this unpredictable and turbulent political season, here is a verse that could describe the followers of Donald Trump. It ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:47 pm

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Cal Thomas: Put Scalia replacement on hold

Few people in modern history have fulfilled their oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” more than the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia was ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 16, 2016 6:59 pm

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