Cal Thomas

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Senior NHS doctors and managers say up to 20 hospitals across the country may close to avoid financial ruin. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Britain’s National Health Service kills thousands of patients through neglect, mismanagement

Cal Thomas · July 11, 2013 4:00 am

Opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi shout slogans and wave national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, July 2. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Islamists are not ready for democracy, may never be

Cal Thomas · July 9, 2013 4:00 am

Military cemeteries across the world where Americans are laid to rest are a testament to the price of freedom. (AP File)

Independence Day plus 237

Cal Thomas · July 4, 2013 4:00 am

John Lewis, left, and Stuart Gaffney embrace outside San Francisco's City Hall shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California on Wednesday. (AP/Noah Berger)

An Authority higher than the courts

Cal Thomas · June 28, 2013 4:00 am

The Supreme Court's narrow 5-4 decision to strike down a central component of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is a welcome recognition that times have changed and that especially Southern states must not forever bear a "mark of Cain" for past discrimination against racial minorities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Voting Rights Act not only decision in need of updating

Cal Thomas · June 27, 2013 4:00 am

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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington on June 14.

Breakout from politics of the past

Cal Thomas · June 24, 2013 4:00 am

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Afghans stand at the site of a blast on February 27, 2011 in Arghandab district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Eight Afghan civilians were killed when two blasts targeted a dog fighting competetion, a practice that was previously banned under Taliban rule.

Talking to the Taliban

Cal Thomas · June 19, 2013 4:00 am

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Supporting one side over another in the Syrian conflict won't advance humanitarian concerns in the long term.

Then what in Syria, Mr. President?

Cal Thomas · June 17, 2013 4:00 am

Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, was one of the winners of the annual Bradley Prize. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Memo to network news execs: Ailes is what’s good for you

Cal Thomas · June 13, 2013 4:00 am

Seven Army soldiers and two Marines received administrative punishments, but are not facing criminal charges, for their part in the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia in 2012. (AP Photo/Pedro Mendoza, File)

Cal Thomas: Americans’ foreign affairs strike home

Cal Thomas · June 12, 2013 4:00 am

A copy of former President George Washington's personal copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is displayed at Christie's auction house on June 15, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty images)

Cal Thomas: Trust the Constitution, not the government

Cal Thomas · June 10, 2013 4:00 am

The failures of UK's National Health Service serves as a warning for what the Affordable Care Act will do to health care in the U.S. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Cal Thomas: The coming Obamacare disaster

Cal Thomas · June 5, 2013 4:00 am