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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...

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...

Cal Thomas: Media project political biases onto Boston bombings

Cal Thomas

Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

President Obama rightly asked us not to "jump to conclusions" about motives or responsibility for the two bombs that exploded Monday at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 170. That request was pre-emptively ignored. Some couldn't wait to project their biases and...

Cal Thomas: Too much hate in British politics

Cal Thomas

Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain's far left that takes bad taste to new extremes. During its Top 40 music countdown Sunday night, BBC Radio 1 was "forced" to play a seven-second clip of "Ding Dong the...