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Human nature and government checks By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Books and articles — scientific as well as theological — have been written on human nature. Still, most people don’t understand it, or refuse to learn from it, or worse, play to its dark side. Some politicians play to the dark side of human…

Lying with a straight face By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency All politicians tell lies, but the Biden-Harris administration is taking lies to a new level. They now want us to disbelieve what we can see. To paraphrase a quote attributed to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, there are lies, damn lies ……

Biden’s dangerous game with Iran By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The Islamic Republic of Iran, as it calls itself, is not a republic, but it is Islamic. Here are two definitions to make the point before moving on to a larger point. A Republic is defined by dictionary.com as “a state in which the…

Democrats Need A Day of Atonement By Cal Thomas With the creation of June 19th (“Juneteenth”) as a federal holiday, Democrats have one more claim to be the party of civil rights and equal opportunity for African Americans, though most Republicans also voted for the holiday. That claim has been promoted for decades by a…

Why not call it Ferris Bueller’s day off? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency A New Jersey school district has voted to eliminate “the names of all religious and secular holidays from the school calendar … opting for the more generic description ‘Day Off.’” You can guess the reason. They used those increasingly popular words…

In pursuit of wisdom By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In an era of political correctness, virtue signaling and woke-ness, wisdom is in such short supply that when discovered it stands out like a beacon in a storm. Wisdom should not be equated with information, of which we have plenty, though information is less informative…

You believe Trump is right? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the 1964 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater had a slogan: “In your heart you know he’s right.” That was aimed at deflecting the stereotype about Goldwater and Republicans in general that they were an uncaring lot. It is a smear that still…

The ‘Can’t Do’ narrative continues By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency President Biden has pledged to “help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies.” He used the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre in Greenwood, a thriving African American community ravaged by a racist…

The commission we really need By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Senate Republicans refused to go along with the House and establish a commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which left five people dead, and more than 100 police officers injured. By a vote of 54 to 35, the bill to…

The commission we really need By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Senate Republicans refused to go along with the House and establish a commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which left five people dead, and more than 100 police officers injured. By a vote of 54 to 35, the bill…