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For release: 11/27/25 Thankful to whom and for what? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Among my growing list of improper uses of the English language is the response I get when telling a restaurant server or anyone else “thank you.” The usual response has been for as long as I remember, “you’re welcome.” For…

For release: 11/25/25 We lose, they win By Cal Thomas   In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan was asked by a reporter during the summit in Moscow what his goal was in the Cold War, he said: “we win, they lose.” When it comes to today’s Russia and its unprovoked war with Ukraine, President Trump’s…

For release: 11/18/25   Republicans are failing to communicate By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the 1967 film “Cool Hand Luke,” the “Captain” says to Luke (Paul Newman) “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The same could be said of the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress. While they have much…

For release: 11/13/25 The biased broadcasting corporation By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Two friends email from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The resignations followed exposure of the splicing together of two parts of a speech by President Donald Trump on…

  For release: 11/11/25 Time for a second American Revolution By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Had enough of the consequences reverberating from the record government “shutdown”? Ready to do something about it? This is an ideal time to recall a slogan from the ’60s: “Power to the people.” We need a second American revolution,…

For release: 11/11/25   Time for a second American Revolution By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Had enough of the consequences reverberating from the record government “shutdown”? Ready to do something about it? This is an ideal time to recall a slogan from the ’60s: “Power to the people.” We need a second American revolution,…

For release: 11/06/25 The hunger games By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There are an estimated 42 million people receiving food aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. The figure represents 12.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the USDA. In the richest nation on Earth that is…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/04/25 Time for the Right to clean house By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Conservatives – true conservatives, as in the Ronald Reagan brand – have a problem. The movement has been invaded by the “alt-right” (or alternative right), a brand that is not conservative, but rather slogs through the mud…

For release: 10/30/25   Please, turn off the lights By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The phrase about turning off the lights when one leaves someplace appears to have originated with two real estate agents in Seattle. It was 1971 and Boeing was laying off employees during an economic downturn. It was meant to be…

For release: 10/28/25 A bad bet By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn’t take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can…