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The 6/12/25 Cal Thomas column has been revised to correct the penultimate graf. Use updated version.
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Escape and Return
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

Three Little Words
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

Cal Thomas: The one, big, ugly bill
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.
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Watch Your Language!
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

You’ve Got to be Taught to Hate
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