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CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 26, 2024      THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN POLITICS. TAKE THE PARIS OLYMPICS. I WANT TO RECALL ANOTHER PARIS OLYMPICS, THE ONE IN 1924 MADE FAMOUS BY THE FILM, “CHARIOTS OF FIRE.” SCOTTISH RUNNER ERIC LIDDELL REFUSED TO RUN ON SUNDAY TO KEEP THE SABBATH. INSTEAD OF THE 100 METRE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 25, 2024      BEFORE WE GET DEEPER INTO THIS UNIQUE POLITICAL SEASON, IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO CONSIDER WHAT C.S. LEWIS WROTE ABOUT POLITICS IN “THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS.” YOU’LL RECALL THESE WERE FICTIONALIZED LETTERS BETWEEN A DEVIL AND HIS TRAINEE.      “MY DEAR WORMWOOD: BE SURE THE PATIENT REMAINS COMPLETELY FIXED…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 24, 2024     IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OFTEN IN WASHINGTON – SOMEONE TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR A FAILURE AND THEN RESIGNING FROM THEIR JOB. BUT THAT RARE OCCURANCE HAPPENED YESTERDAY WHEN KIMBERLEY CHEATLE RESIGNED AS DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE, ONE DAY AFTER DISASTROUS TESTIMONY BEFORE A HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WHICH SAW BOTH…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 23, 2024 DID PRESIDENT BIDEN VOLUNTARILY WITHDRAW FROM HIS PURSUIT OF A SECOND TERM, OR WAS HE PUSHED BY BARACK OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, CHUCK SCHUMER AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES? I’M GOING WITH THE SECOND SCENARIO: HE WAS PUSHED. RIGHT UP TO THE MOMENT OF HIS TYPED AND SIGNED ANNOUNCEMENT, BIDEN AND HIS…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 22, 2024      IN ACCEPTING HIS PARTY’S NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT LAST THURSDAY NIGHT, DONALD TRUMP MIGHT HAVE BENEFITTED FROM SHAKESPEARE’S LINE IN HAMLET: “BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT.”      THE FIRST 30 MINUTES OF HIS TOO-LONG 93 MINUTE ADDRESS WERE RIVITING. HE DESCRIBED WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE SHOT…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 19, 2024     IT APPEARS OVER FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. HE ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY HE HAS COVID AND LOOKS AND WALKS WORSE THAN EVER.     ON WEDNESDAY, CNN REPORTED THAT FORMER SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI TOLD BIDEN HE CANNOT DEFEAT DONALD TRUMP IN THE FALL ELECTION AND COULD SINK THE DEMOCRATS’ CHANCES OF GETTING…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 18, 2024     THE FOUNDERS UNDERSTOOD THE NECESSITY OF SEPARATION OF POWERS. PRESIDENT BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO CHANGE THE SUPREME COURT SO THEY CAN EVENTUALLY PACK IT WITH LIBERAL JUDGES AND RETURN TO THE DAYS WHEN JUDGES, NOT ELECTED LEGISLATORS, MADE LAW FROM THE BENCH.      THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 17, 2024      VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE J.D. VANCE HAS QUITE A BACKGROUND. ABANDONED BY HIS FATHER, AN ALCOHOLIC MOTHER WHO WAS BARELY ABLE TO FEED HIM. HE JOINED THE MARINES AND SERVED FOUR YEARS, INCLUDING IN IRAQ. HE  GRADUATED FROM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AND THEN YALE. HE STARTED A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 16, 2024      MY WIFE AND I SAW IT LIVE ON TV AND PERHAPS YOU DID, TOO. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF DONALD TRUMP. HAVING BEEN THROUGH MANY OF THESE — FROM JOHN KENNEDY, TO BOBBY KENNEDY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, GEORGE WALLACE, AND GERALD FORD, I IMMEDIATELTY RECOGNIZED WHAT HAPPENED.     …

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 15, 2024      YOU HEAR IT ALL THE TIME, FROM CERTAIN LIBERAL POLITICIANS AND THE MEDIA WHICH HAVE ADOPTED THE WORDS: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO HER OWN BODY; FREEDOM OF CHOICE (BUT NOT FOR SCHOOLS I WOULD ADD).      ONE POLITICIAN RECENTLY SAID THAT WHEN LIFE BEGINS IS A…