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For release: 04/21/26 As goes Virginia By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency ARLINGTON, Virginia – On Tuesday, Virginia voters who bother to vote will take gerrymandering to a new and dangerous level. Governor Abigail Spanberger, a liberal wolf in moderate clothing, has led a campaign to redraw the state’s congressional districts so that all but…
For release: 04/16/2 The pope, three cardinals and the Iran war By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “War is Hell,” said Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1879. Pope Leo and three cardinals of the Catholic Church who appeared last Sunday on “60 Minutes,” agree. The problem for these theologians is that for them…
For release: 04/14/26 Democrats again attack religion By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Democrats are again trying to pry some of the religious vote from Republicans, but their actions expose the insincerity of their approach. The latest example involves an order of Catholic nuns in Hawthorne, New York, who care for the terminally ill. The…
For release: 04/07/26 Pope Leo’s flawed war doctrine By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Pope Leo XIV used part of his Palm Sunday message to castigate the United States for attempting to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and threatening the world with mass destruction. In doing so, the “American Pope” confused the…
For release: 04/02/26 Debunking the lone wolf ‘myth’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, government officials have said their greatest fear is self-radicalized individuals they call “lone wolves.” The March 12 terrorist attack on Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, prompted a Department of Justice news conference…
For release: 03/31/26 Lessons from the Vietnam War for Iran By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those wars we had…
For release: 03/26/26 The political instant replay By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In sports, the instant replay was invented and first used by a man named Tony Verna on the Dec. 7, 1963 broadcast of the Army-Navy football game on CBS. The political “instant replay” has no single author or starting date, but its…
For release: 03/24/26 Sending in the clowns By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Even someone with a rudimentary understanding of economics should know that if you tax a business or individual beyond their level of tolerance they will pack up and leave the state for one with lower or no state income tax. Unfortunately, one…
For release: 03/19/26 The Second Coming of DOGE By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency President Trump has signed an executive order creating a task force to crackdown on fraud in government programs. It will be headed by Vice president JD Vance. This is the administration’s second effort to reduce government misspending and overspending following Elon…
For release: 03/17/26 Should America have a red line? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency President Trump has acted as no other president has by unleashing a war on Iran whose objective is not only preventing the ayatollahs from ever building a nuclear weapon but ideally (though unmentioned) replacing the fanatics with leaders more friendly…