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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:00 am
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“…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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Sunday, April 26, 2015 12:00 am
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“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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12:00 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 12:00 am
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NEW YORK — This being the 50th anniversary of the film “The Sound of Music,” please permit me a poor adaption of a few of ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 12:00 am
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“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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Thursday, March 26, 2015 6:20 pm
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Monday, March 23, 2015 9:25 pm
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 6:59 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:00 am
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Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, is taking some heat — and winning praise in some quarters — for remarks he made ...
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by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:05 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:00 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:25 pm
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:59 pm
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Monday, January 26, 2015 6:21 pm
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LONDON — It is an old debating point: Do the times make the man, or does the man make the times? In the ...
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by Cal Thomas, Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:00 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Sunday, January 18, 2015 12:10 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:00 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:34 pm
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Suppose what some call the “Christmas story” is true — all of it, from the angels, to the shepherds, to the virgin birth, to God ...
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by Cal Thomas, Thursday, December 25, 2014 12:06 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 12:10 am
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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 ...
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by Cal Thomas, Sunday, December 21, 2014 12:00 am
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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. ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:29 pm
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“Stupid is as stupid does” — Forrest Gump Unless you regularly follow conservative media, you may not have heard what one of the architects of ...
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by Cal Thomas, Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:00 am
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NEW YORK — At a dinner sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation last Thursday (I am an unpaid national advisory board member), there was ...
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by Cal Thomas, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:00 am
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