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Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in “Coriolanus” and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3705965">Read more

Back in the day of telephone books, the Washington, D.C., Yellow Pages contained more than a dozen pages of “associations,” a code word for lobbyists. They included associations for tort reform, one for buses and even an association for snack food.

I don’t recall an ...Read more

Last week, President Trump announced the establishment of a White House Faith Office. Its purpose, as described in a White House announcement, is to “…empower faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to better serve families and communities.” Don’t they already have access to a higher power?

There is no ...Read more

Last Sunday I was a panelist on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream. My friend and colleague Juan Williams brought up the continuing high price of eggs as part of his criticism of President Trump’s first 100 days in his second term. While wholesale egg prices are coming down, I said only half-jokingly “let people eat oatmeal.”

The ...Read more

“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth." (Genesis 1:28)

President Trump is going God one better. God told Adam and Eve to start having children. The president is considering adding an incentive – paying couples politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3689985">Read more

Before basketball’s 24-second rule, there was a tactic called freezing the ball. The team that was ahead would attempt to run out the clock by holding onto the ball as long as it could to deny the opposing team an opportunity to score.

That looks like what Iran is again doing – “freezing” negotiations while finishing the final stages of...Read more

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative.

Such has been the case of politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3680880">Read more

Better buy your “Forever” stamps now, because the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced another price increase. On July 13, the cost of a first- class stamp is scheduled to rise from 73 cents to politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3676771">Read more

America’s annual rituals and observances include days we usually celebrate together (July Fourth, Memorial Day, Veterans Day), or as members of special groups (Passover, Easter and Christmas).

The one annual ritual it can be safely said most Americans despise is April 15, when the politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3673917">Read more

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them … well, I have others.”– Groucho Marx

Guess who said this: “China takes total advantage of the United States. They steal our intellectual property using cyber theft. Not only do they steal our ...Read more

As a child I frequently visited relatives in southern Indiana. A great uncle tried to keep me from exploring his cellar (as they were called then) by telling me the boogeyman was down there and would “get you” if I descended the stairs. It worked.

Boogeymen are nothing new. They have existed in the form of politicians going back to...Read more

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There is a man who has spent nearly 30 years on death row in a Nashville prison for murders that substantial evidence shows he did not commit.

His name is Kevin Burns...Read more

For the Evangelical Christians who have given – and still give – overwhelming support to President Trump while refusing to criticize him for language and behavior they would presumably denounce in a fellow church member, here’s an easy one for you.

There’s a heretic inside the ...Read more

Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it ...Read more

How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was created by Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress?

Quite well, ...Read more

President Trump is using an 18th-century law – the Alien Enemies Act– to justify the deportation of hundreds of people he says are members of a vicious Venezuelan gang. That law was last used during World War II by the Roosevelt administration ...Read more

The cliché has been that the ball is now in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s court. Not any longer. Putin has responded to U.S. appeals for a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine with a strong backhand, rejecting a ceasefire in his unprovoked invasion. Now the ball is in President Trump’s court. What will he do?

On“ Face the Nation” ...Read more

When I began investing in balanced mutual funds in 1983, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 1,190. Last Monday, despite the drop of more than 1,000 points, the DJI closed at politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3633452">Read more

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people who can demonstrate how slavery and Jim Crow laws have negatively affected their lives. Talk about a high bar.

The 12-member ...Read more

It was a partisan speech. It was an optimistic speech. It was a speech that laid the blame for inflation and the massive number of migrants and illegal drugs that entered the country during the previous administration at the feet of Democrats. It was an uplifting speech about the future. It was a deliberately divisive speech when it came to ...Read more