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Thomas: When the mob rules

by Cal Thomas ·June 25, 2020

What did we think would happen once boundaries were destroyed?

Photo by Jacquelyn Martin of The Associated Press / A National Park Service worker cleans a statue of President Andrew Jackson using fire on June 11, 2020, near the White House in Washington, after protests over the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers last month.

Cal Thomas: Toxic in Tulsa

by Cal Thomas ·June 23, 2020

President Donald Trump's speech Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a toxic stream of consciousness that ignored a great opportunity to speak words of healing and unity to a divided nation.

Photo by Sue Ogrocki of The Associated Press / President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Thomas: An opportunity for Trump in Tulsa

by Cal Thomas ·June 19, 2020

President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a plan to make reforms in police departments and acknowledged for the first time the existence of "systemic racism."

Mike Pellerin joins other Trump supporters on 4th Street and Cheyenne Ave. in downtown Tulsa, Okla., ahead of President Donald Trump's Saturday's campaign rally Friday, June 19, 2020. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)

Thomas: The shame is ours

by Cal Thomas ·June 16, 2020

It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us.

Associated Press File Photo / Will purists who desire to remove shrines to those who opposed civil rights insist on tearing down the Russell Senate Office Building, from where this view of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., is visible, which was named for a Democrat segregationist Georgia senator.

Thomas: Limbaugh and The Breakfast Club

by Cal Thomas ·June 3, 2020

Which of the following would you consider the most unusual and least likely to occur?

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Thomas: Name-calling

by Cal Thomas ·May 26, 2020

Writing and making public one's opinions guarantees people will respond.

Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta of The Assocaited Press / House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Washington.

Thomas: ‘Snake oil’ cures

by Cal Thomas ·May 21, 2020

On Monday, in an off-the-cuff comment following a White House meeting with restaurant industry leaders, President Donald Trump revealed that he has been taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for "about a week and a half now" to protect himself from COVID-19.

Photo by Evan Vucci of The Associated Press / President Donald Trump talks to reporters before departing the White House for a trip to Michigan on Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Washington.

Thomas: Stealth legislation

by Cal Thomas ·May 18, 2020

In the pantheon of great lines suitable for induction into "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 2010 comment about Obamacare: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

Photo by Andrew Harnik of The Associated Press / House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Washington.

Thomas: Barack Obama (finally) endorses Joe Biden

by Cal Thomas ·April 15, 2020

It isn't like Joe Biden was former President Barack Obama's first choice for president.

Photo from Biden for President via The New York Times / Former President Barack Obama appears in a video endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden released on Tuesday, April 14, 2020.

Thomas: The dark hole of debt

by Cal Thomas ·March 30, 2020

It is not cognitive dissonance - the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously - to favor the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump while at the same time worrying about what the increasing national debt (nearing $24 trillion and counting) will do to the country.