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Cal Thomas: Baltimore’s ills are not rooted in race

Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced a Justice Department investigation to determine whether the Baltimore Police Department’s practices are unconstitutional and violate civil rights; in ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Were Ramadi deaths in vain?

“…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…” — Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address While the U.S. military in ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, April 26, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Flunking civics should not be an option

“Don’t know much about history.” — Sam Cooke It’s an old joke, but one that is a commentary on our times. A pollster asks: “What ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: The ‘new’ Hillary Clinton

In the video announcing her presidential candidacy, Hillary Clinton says the economic deck “is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” She should ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: How do you solve a problem like the Clintons?

NEW YORK — This being the 50th anniversary of the film “The Sound of Music,” please permit me a poor adaption of a few of ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: GOP needs better agenda for 2016

“In your heart you know he’s right,” was Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign slogan in 1964. The critics of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who announced Monday ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, March 26, 2015 6:20 pm

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Cal Thomas: Disastrous deal with Iran

In 1982, during one of many visits to Israel, I had the opportunity to speak with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who told me, “Israel needs ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, March 23, 2015 9:25 pm

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Cal Thomas: This is teaching moment for SAE frat members

Turn on the news and you expect to see people of different races and politics denouncing each other. That’s why what happened last week on ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 6:59 am

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Cal Thomas: Bibi at the barricade

The White House opposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Congress, but not because the speech has political implications, coming as it does just ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Giuliani talks of love instead of policy

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, is taking some heat — and winning praise in some quarters — for remarks he made ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:05 am

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Cal Thomas: President Obama, America’s Nero

President Theodore Roosevelt said, “Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” More than a century later, President Barack Obama speaks loudly (and incessantly) and carries ... Read more

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

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Cal Thomas: Bobby Jindal for president?

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s name is not first on most people’s list of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, but maybe we should at ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:25 pm

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Cal Thomas: Prayer Breakfast theme has become ‘let us prey’

There was a time when the 63-year-old National Prayer Breakfast was a rather mundane affair. It rarely made news. Speakers — evangelist Billy Graham spoke ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:59 pm

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Cal Thomas: GOP’s abortion bill — right end, wrong means

As thousands descended on Washington last week for the annual “March for Life,” the Republican House of Representatives was busy watering down an antiabortion bill ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Monday, January 26, 2015 6:21 pm

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Cal Thomas: Churchill was a man for all times

    LONDON — It is an old debating point: Do the times make the man, or does the man make the times? In the ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Why all the love for George Clooney?

Social media is agog over George Clooney’s tribute to his wife, Amal, at last weekend’s Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood. Women, especially, are swooning in ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, January 18, 2015 12:10 am

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Cal Thomas: Is Paris burning?

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, Paul Conrad, frequently used religious symbols to illustrate his point of view. Conrad drew ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: America interrupted

In the film, “Girl Interrupted,” Winona Ryder plays an 18-year-old who enters a mental institution for what is diagnosed as borderline personality disorder. The year ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:34 pm

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Cal Thomas: What if story is true?

Suppose what some call the “Christmas story” is true — all of it, from the angels, to the shepherds, to the virgin birth, to God ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Thursday, December 25, 2014 12:06 am

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Cuba libré!

Is it possible to hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts about the president’s decision to partially end the half-century embargo against Cuba? Can one agree with ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 12:10 am

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Cal Thomas: Rules of war need updating

The attack on a cafe in Sydney, Australia, by a self-described Islamic cleric with a long police record, left two hostages dead, along with the ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, December 21, 2014 12:00 am

Opinion

Cal Thomas: U.K.’s Cameron gets it on immigration

There is nothing like a little heat from a third political party to get the attention of career politicians who wish to stay in office. ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:29 pm

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Cal Thomas: Who are you calling stupid?

“Stupid is as stupid does” — Forrest Gump Unless you regularly follow conservative media, you may not have heard what one of the architects of ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:00 am

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Cal Thomas: Coolidge in 2016

NEW YORK — At a dinner sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation last Thursday (I am an unpaid national advisory board member), there was ... Read more

by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:00 am

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