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For release: 10/15/26 What happened to initiative? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Two years after voters tossed Democrats from power in Washington, polls show they are ready to switch sides again. Does it make sense to welcome back a party and its ideas that were so recently rejected? The reason so many voters are…
For release: 10/13/26 The Greece speech By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Back in my college days (American University, Washington, D.C.), required reading included the works of Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Long after graduation they remained on my bookshelf. It was believed for generations that these men, along with philosophers Plato, Cicero and…
For release: 10/08/26 Lessons from the death of Jim Bakker By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the 1980s the media gave them the name “televangelists.” These were men (and a few women) who preached a “prosperity gospel,” which claimed that God would reward donors who gave money to their “ministries.” Jim Bakker, who died…
For release: 10/06/26 The tsunami of campaign ads By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency You can’t escape them unless you turn off the TV. One after another with barely enough time for commercials hawking adult diapers and a cure for toe fungus they come. They are repetitious and annoying. One candidate promises to lower gas…
For release: 10/01/26 Britain bails out possible terrorists By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency President Trump says he was “surprised” that Britain released five suspected terrorists on bail. The suspects were arrested after a farmer saw the masked men and several vans 100 yards from a British air base the U.S. has used to conduct…
For release: 09/29/26 The perfect metaphor By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” You can’t make people understand the truth if they choose…
For release: 09/22/26 AI: A substitute for real intelligence By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I have a theory about the artificial intelligence craze that is delighting some and scaring others. It is that we are losing natural intelligence and thus risk seduction by something that can do the thinking for us. Never mind acquiring…
Trump and the press boycott each other By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency We’re back in the children’s sandbox. President Trump has banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from covering him. The three have filed a First Amendment lawsuit. The president has retaliated with “Trump TV: The Essentials Station” on YouTube. American presidents have been…
Will AI cause Doomsday? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the satirical 1964 anti-war film “Dr. Strangelove,” fears of a “Doomsday machine,” an automated, unstoppable device programmed to trigger global nuclear annihilation if the Soviet Union is attacked, gripped U.S. leaders and the Soviet ambassador in the American “war room.” Predictions of doomsdays by…
For release: 09/10/26 Once again it will be about turnout By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Republicans are holding a unique midterm combination rally, get-out-the-vote convention in Dallas this week. The GOP hopes to raise enthusiasm (and money) for Republican candidates in the November election. One indication they are in trouble are polls that show…