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  • Cal Thomas: Tyranny is no longer just 'lurking'

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" warning "that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." It's no longer...

  • Cal Thomas: Kermit Gosnell's 'clinic of horrors'

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Karnamaya Mongar, who overdosed on Demerol...

  • Cal Thomas: Nixonian response to Benghazi, IRS scandals

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    In his defense of President Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved his previous statements untrue....

  • Cal Thomas: Taxing Internet sales is anything but fair

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    In 1998, when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially for startups and small businesses. Congress...

  • Cal Thomas: For Tribune papers, would things go better with Koch?

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

    "Mainstream media" are alarmed by reports that billionaires Charles and David Koch are considering the purchase of Tribune Company's eight daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. When Warren Buffett spent $344 million to purchase 28 newspapers, there were mostly sighs of relief from...

  • Cal Thomas: Immigration reform being deformed

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    There's the story of a woman with five kids who was asked if she had to do it all over again would she have five children? "Yes," she said, "just not these five." That's the way I feel about the immigration "reform" bill introduced by the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight. I'm all for an...

  • Cal Thomas: Back to the '50s

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

    Addressing a meeting of Planned Parenthood on Friday, President Obama accused pro-lifers of wanting to "turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century." Like any decade, the '50s had its problems -- racism, discrimination, sexism -- but I'll defend the '50s on...

  • Cal Thomas: No boundaries, big problem

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    One of the consequences of abandoning a standard by which right and wrong can be judged is our increasing inability to mete out punishment that fits the crime. In fact, too often we weigh extenuating circumstances rather than guilty actions. In the case of the Boston bombers, observers search...

  • Cal Thomas: What next after Boston?

    Cal Thomas

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    Last time there was a terrorist attack on America, we got the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. Each entity has spent billions to keep us safe, but neither could stop two brothers, Tamerlan, a permanent resident, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a newly...