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Tyranny is no longer 'lurking'
Cal ThomasGiven 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...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Internal Revenue Service, Personal Income, Taxation, Authors
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Gosnell's 'clinic of horrors'
Cal ThomasIt 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...Tags: Mother's Day, Kermit Gosnell, The Huffington Post, Demerol (drug), ABC (tv network)
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Big government 2.0
Cal ThomasBill Clinton isn't often wrong when it comes to politics, but his assertion in his 1996 State of the Union Address that "the era of big government is over" was a bit premature. In light of President Obama's Second Inaugural Address, the era of big...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, American Idol (tv program), Bill Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?
Cal ThomasIn his defense of President Obama, 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...Tags: Charles W. Boustany, Jr., John Boehner, U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Taxing Internet sales
Cal ThomasIn 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...Tags: Local Government, Newspaper and Magazine, Calvin Coolidge, Sales, Harry Reid
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Would things go better with Koch?
Cal Thomas"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...Tags: Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, David Koch
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Roe v. Wade at 40
Cal ThomasAt last week's signing of "executive actions" designed to combat gun violence in America, President Obama, flanked by schoolchildren, said, "...when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now." There's no doubt that children,...Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Personal Weapon Control
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Immigration deformed
Cal ThomasThere'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...Tags: Interior Policy, Eric Holder, Jeff Sessions, Marco Rubio, Laws
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Back to the '50s
Cal ThomasAddressing a meeting of Planned Parenthood last 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,...Tags: Abigail Johnson, Kermit Gosnell, Family Planning, Barack Obama, Elections
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No boundaries, big problem
Cal ThomasOne 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...Tags: Islam, Israel, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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What next after Boston?
Cal ThomasThe 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...Tags: Islam, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Religious Conflicts, Google Inc., U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Bombed in Boston
Cal ThomasPresident 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...Tags: CNN (tv network), Roger F. Wicker, Barack Obama, Anthrax, Weather Underground
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