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The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship that was supposed to keep them from endorsing candidates for political office.

The root of the ban extends back to 1954....Read more

It’s one thing to pass a major piece of legislation and have it signed by the president; it’s quite another to get the public to swallow it as something that benefits most of the country.

House and Senate Democrats, who stood in unison against President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” – even trying to change the name of it to spite ...Read more

Those annoying countdown clocks the cable TV networks use to let us know how much time remains before a presidential address or something else regarded as worthy of our attention might be useful as America begins the countdown to the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Declaration of Independence.

A question that would be helpful for ...Read more

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal did ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Following trips to different countries over many years I have longed to return home and hear these words from an immigration officer: “Welcome back to the United States.”

Something felt different this time. After three weeks away – two days in Doha and the rest in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Beijing, while I was ...Read more

In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time.

As usual, some in the major media got it wrong. The New York Times initially headlined: “U.S. Enters ...Read more

It would be amusing if it weren’t so serious. Last weekend’s expressions of supposed free speech were almost universally called demonstrations by the media and “mostly peaceful” by some. In contrast, the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol was labeled an “politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3747697">Read more

After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ‘em hard and hit ‘em again. Show ‘em now that we’re gonna win…”

That is precisely what Israel has done in ...Read more

NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse i n the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left – May 28, 1970. He served at the hospital for two years where he treated wounded American soldiers and saw many die. He says while he was initially...Read more

CAM RANH, Vietnam – The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script.

Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha – known to ...Read more

Six months after their disastrous performance in last November’s election, The New York Times reports the Democratic Party is “still searching for the path forward.”

Democrats have hired consultants, one of whom asked voters what animal would they ...Read more

After many years living in and covering Washington, there is one overriding principle I have learned: If you don’t trust politicians you will never be disappointed.

President Trump and the House Republican leadership promised that what Trump called “politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3729538">Read more

The beginning of summer offers a columnist the opportunity to address subjects he might avoid the rest of the year because of his focus on domestic and foreign issues.

Inattention to proper English seems to be a subject that few are bothering to address. I have been making a list of misused words that in the past might have labeled a person ...Read more

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon to be engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week, I recalled the opening line to a song from the old off-Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” – “You ...Read more

Those who lived through the Watergate scandal in the’70s with its associated names and labels, including President Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the plumbers, non-denial denials, press secretary Ron Ziegler, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the tapes, Judge John Sirica, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, John Dean and the cover-up, ...Read more

The massive cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline, which is only now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds me of a similar event more than a century ago.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, ...Read more

Is there anyone who thinks prescription drug prices in America are about right?

President Trump has elevated an issue Democrats have been jawboning about for years. On Monday the president issued an Executive Order (EO) he says will decrease the cost of drugs in America and lead to increased transparency about how pharmaceutical companies set ...Read more

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