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Deeper and deeper in debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There are many addictions besides drugs, sex and power. There is also our increasing addiction to debt. According to Money Magazine, reporting on figures from the New York Fed, “Americans’ debt hit a new high of $13 trillion last year, surpassing the previous record set…

Praying (or not) for the president By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Only the most partisan person would begrudge prayers for the president of the United States, but a recent visitby President Trump to the mega McLean Bible Church in Virginia has rubbed some congregants the wrong way. The White House informed the church with only…

Robert Mueller’s upside-down justice By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It’s a familiar quotefrom Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist,” but with special contemporary relevance in light of a statement last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: “‘If the law supposes that,’ said Mr. Bumble… ‘the law is a ass — a idiot.’” But it isn’t so…

NO CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It is even more amazing what has been accomplished with the…

Once a terrorist always a terrorist By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the release of self-admitted “American Taliban” member John Walker Lindh “unexplainable and unconscionable.” Lindh, who was paroledlast Thursday from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for illegally aiding Taliban forces.…

Among the many things that frustrate Americans about Washington, D.C., is the unwillingness — not inability, but unwillingness — to solve problems. One example is the U.S. national debt, now more than $22 trillion and counting. As Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James has written, “The federal budget is at the core of our political…

The pro-life movement’s moment By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Since 1973, when Roe vs. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect babies born aliveafter failed procedures — the pro-life movement has achieved few legislative victories. That may be about to change. While New…

My sentimental journey with Doris Day By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It was Oscar Levant who uttered the famous line: “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” In a way it was a backhanded compliment to a woman who represented in most of her film roles an image of chastity and virtue…

Back to the past with Joe Biden By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Joe Biden, the leading Democrat in the overcrowded presidential sweepstakes (there are more of them running than horses in the recent Kentucky Derby), appears to want to take America back to the days of the Obama administration, which he was a part…

A solution to college debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgivenessprogram in 2007 in an attempt to attract people into professions like teaching, nursing and public-interest law. College graduates would be forgiven their student loans if they pursued a career in such professions. The Wall Street Journalreports the program is…