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August 25, 2022 Revisiting the flat tax By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The next time Republicans control all three branches of government they may wish to visit an old idea – the flat tax. When magazine publisher and Republican Steve Forbes ran for president in 1996, the flat tax was at the heart of…

Guns of Washington By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison Conspiracy theories sometimes have at least a thread of truth in them, which is what makes them valid to some on the far right. One of those theories is…

Inflation reduction act won’t By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In January 1925, President Calvin Coolidge, addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. In his remarks, Coolidge said, “the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world.” On Tuesday,…

Is Merrick Garland serious? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Commenting about the FBI executing a search warrant on former president Donald Trump’s Florida home, which he approved, Attorney General Merrick Garland said: “Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. … All Americans…

McCullough’s history never boring By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I hated college history. The textbooks were mostly about dead white men, Abigail Adams excepted. The lectures were boring. I didn’t see how any of it related to my young life and future plans. Historian David McCullough, who died this week at age 89, helped…

Back to school 2022 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency As parents prepare to send their children back to school, many will have made decisions about their child’s education that will not only put them on a different trajectory, but also impact the public education system, which is being used in too many districts to…

George Soros and his woke prosecutors By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and bete noir of conservatives, has written a column for The Wall Street Journal, defending his donations to liberal prosecutors who are releasing criminals on low or no bail, resulting in their frequent commission of new crimes. Soros…

Humpty Dumpty and the recession By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In Washington things are rarely what they seem. It’s why Congress labels bills with names they think will be more palatable to the public rather than a name that would accurately reflect the content of the legislation. Notice how many times over the years…

To ID, or not to ID? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency During recent election seasons there has been a debate over whether a voter must present an identification card to cast a ballot and if so, what type? Congressional Democrats are considering legislation that would provide secure identification cards, not to U.S. citizens for…

Joe’s dubious oil slick By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “Don’t they know it’s the end of the world…” (Skeeter Davis, 1962) President Biden has repeated a story he has told before, but repetition does not necessarily make it true. Speaking last week in Somerset, Massachusetts, where a coal-fired power plant once stood, Biden again…