Month: April 2019
CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 1, 2019 ONE MIGHT THINK READING THE NEW YORK TIMES — AS I AM FORCED TO DO EACH DAY — THAT A CONTROVERSY OVER AN ANTI-SEMITIC CARTOON PUBLISHED IN THEIR INTERNATIONAL EDITION MIGHT BE CONSIDERED AN ABERRATION. IT ISN’T. THE TIMES HAS A HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM DATING AT BACK AT LEAST…
Read MoreSigns of the times By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It took a few days, but the New York Timesfinally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind President Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dog resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dog…
Read MoreApril 23, 2019 They’ve only just begun By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Objectivity, like Elvis, long ago left the building in Washington and so the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is being read and interpreted through mostly biased eyes. Democrats, who had counted on Mueller to prove that the Trump campaign colluded with…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 29, 2019 NEW YORK CITY, ALONG WITH CALIFORNIA, MAY DEFINE NICE PLACES TO VISIT, BUT YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO LIVE THERE. NEW YORK CITY’S UBER LIBERAL MAYOR BILL DIBLASIO IS PROPOSING A $92.5 BILLION BUDGET, $300 MILLION MORE THAN HIS PRELIMINARY BUDGET AND THAT AFTER HE ORDERED MANDATORY SPENDING CUTS. THE…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 30, 2019 DAVID FRENCH IS A WRITER FOR NATIONAL REVIEW. RECENTLY HE WROTE A COMMENTARY CRITICIZING FRANKLIN GRAHAM FOR HIS UNQUALIFIED SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP. FRENCH NOTED THAT GRAHAM WAS SEVERLY CRITICAL OF BILL CLINTON’S ADULTERIES, BUT NOW SAYS IT’S TRUMP’S POLICIES, NOT HIS CHARACTER THAT MATTER. FRENCH BELIEVES SUCH UNCRITICAL…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 26, 2019 NOW THERE ARE 20. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCED BY VIDEO YESTERDAY HE IS AGAIN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. TWICE BEFORE HE RAN AND HE NEVER MADE IT THROUGH THE EARLY PRIMARIES. HE WILL HAVE AN EVEN TOUGHER TIME NOW, THOUGH THE MEDIA WILL HELP. EVEN BARACK OBAMA WON’T…
Read MoreIn defense of Kate Smith By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The long arm of the PC police has reached back to the ’30s and arrested, prosecuted and sentenced the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who popularized Irving Berlin’s song “God Bless America” and was a female pioneer in early television, recorded songs that today…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 25, 2019 CAN THIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, WHICH HAS 18 MONTHS TO GO, GET ANY STRANGER? PROBABLY. THE 20THDEMOCRAT TO ENTER THE RACE IS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. WHAT HE WILL BRING THAT THE OTHER 19 DON’T BRING REMAINS TO BE SEEN. THE OTHERS ARE IN A BIDDING WAR TO OUT-PROMISE…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 24, 2019 A FRIEND OF MINE, HARRY COVERT, HAS WRITTEN ABOUT HIS FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH THE LATE SINGER KATE SMITH. HE RECALLS WATCHING HER ON HIS BLACK AND WHITE TV AND LATER HEARING HER SING “GOD BLESS AMERICA.” THE SHOW WAS INTERRUPTED BY A NEWS BULLETIN. A GROUP OF PUERTO RICANS…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 23, 2019 THE ATTACK ON EASTER SUNDAY IN SRI LANKA AGAINST CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND 5-STAR HOTELS KILLED MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AND INJURED HUNDREDS MORE. IT WAS COORDINATED AND NEWS REPORTS SAY OFFICIALS WERE WARNED IT WAS COMING TEN DAYS IN ADVANCE. SO WHY WAS NO PREVENTIVE ACTION TAKEN? INCREASINGLY, CHRISTIANS…
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