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Cal Thomas: Not the America I knew

Envy is defined by Dictionary.com as “a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another’s advantages, success, possessions, etc.” That perfectly characterizes the entire ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, February 13, 2016 6:39 pm

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Cal Thomas: Bernie & Hillary’s America

Watching last Thursday’s debate between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders one might have thought a Republican had been in the White ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, February 8, 2016 9:21 pm

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Cal Thomas: No Trump!

When the publisher of National Review Magazine, Jack Fowler, called and asked me to write 300 words on why I oppose Donald Trump for president ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, January 27, 2016 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Too big to fail, the sequel?

Movie sequels are rarely as good as the original films on which they’re based. The same dictum, it appears, holds for finance. The 2008 housing ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:07 am

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Cal Thomas: Hot air in Paris

If representatives of the nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris for the UN Conference on Climate Change had instead formed a coalition to fight a ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:12 pm

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Cal Thomas: Massacre in Paris

Just hours before the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, for which ISIS has claimed responsibility, “Good Morning America” broadcast an interview with President Obama. ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Bob Beckel should be dead

Liberal pundit has survived to tell an instructive tale In Washington, most stories that make the newspapers and evening newscasts are about scandals and political ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:42 pm

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Cal Thomas: A state of death

Shortly after signing a bill allowing assisted suicide in California, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed another measure that forces pregnancy crisis centers to “offer information ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, October 29, 2015 12:32 am

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Cal Thomas: Banana Republicans?

When Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walked into a Capitol Hill conference room to meet with his Republican colleagues last Thursday, he seemed a certain bet ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, October 14, 2015 8:52 pm

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Cal Thomas: Words are meaningless

Hurricane Joaquin dumped large amounts of rain on the East Coast, but another “force of nature” flooded the country with so much rhetoric it was ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 7:29 pm

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Cal Thomas: Boehner then and now

The announcement by House Speaker John Boehner that he is retiring at the end of October stunned Washington where life is all about grabbing power ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, September 29, 2015 7:39 pm

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Cal Thomas: Carly Fiorina, major leaguer

To invoke a baseball metaphor, Carly Fiorina has been called up from the minors to the major leagues. After her widely praised debate performance last ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 8:24 pm

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Cal Thomas: Trump is ‘Lonesome Rhodes’ redux

Rarely and perhaps not in modern times has a presidential campaign more resembled the classic 1957 film, “A Face in the Crowd.” Written by Budd ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, September 14, 2015 8:25 pm

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Cal Thomas: Tragedy in Roanoke

The horrible murder of two local journalists in Roanoke, Virginia, has affected me more than I thought it would. Journalists are taught early on to ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Jimmy Carter’s peace

When Ronald Reagan announced in November 1994 he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, even some of his most ardent political opponents paused to wish ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, August 24, 2015 7:26 pm

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Cal Thomas: The summer of our discontent

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders represent two sides of the same coin. Both men have tapped into a deep anger — a discontent — in ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:22 pm

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Cal Thomas: Fox debate unfair? I don’t think so

Twenty-four million people tuned in to watch the first primetime debate among 10 Republican presidential candidates. What were they expecting, a love-in? Some conservative critics ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:00 am

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Here’s a promise Obama kept — but not as intended

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama said: “…if somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can. It’s just that it will ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, August 8, 2015 12:00 am

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Debating the debates

Fine tune the process for presidential hopefuls WARWICK, England — When it comes to debates, the Oxford Union, which bills itself as the “world’s most ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:03 am

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Latest abortion horror should shock no one

..if we come to see ourselves as meat, then meat we shall become.” — Leon Kass, M.D., “Toward a More Natural Science” What is most ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:03 am

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Cal Thomas: Defining — yawn! — Hillary

When I listen to Hillary Clinton speak, as she did Monday at The New School in New York, outlining her “economic policy” should she become ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, July 19, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: No sanctuary from the law

According to the Wall Street Journal, the last serious attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws appears to have been made in 1982 ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 8:25 pm

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Marriage is only the beginning

Gay activists want enforced orthodoxy “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:02 am

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Cal Thomas: Truly amazing grace in Charleston

Unity in Charleston a good example for all “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:15 am

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Cal Thomas: China’s big hack attack

Upon hearing of the massive data breach of employee information from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — allegedly by hackers working for the Chinese ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, June 15, 2015 6:14 pm

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Cal Thomas: No more green & white; telling boys from girls gets complicated

My high school colors were green and white. At graduation the boys wore green robes and the girls wore white. No one considered the girls ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, June 11, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Wright stuff, indeed

I was not surprised to see historian David McCullough’s latest book rocket to the top position on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Not only ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 11:48 pm

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Cal Thomas: Obama’s hot air commencement talk

I didn’t attend my commencement ceremony at American University in Washington, D.C. I chose instead to receive my degree in the mail. I didn’t want ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:00 am

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