Examiner Columnist
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Cal Thomas: President Obama struck right note in Morehouse commencement address
Cal Thomas
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
President Obama gave two commencement addresses in one to graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta last weekend. It would be easy for this conservative to critique the political and social elements of his speech. Instead, I choose to focus on the inspirational part.
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
