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CAL THOMAS For release: 12/10/24 Pardoning the unpardonable By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Media reports say President Biden is about to issue a slew of blanket pre-emptive pardons for people associated with his administration to thwart any “revenge” the incoming Trump administration might take against them. While the Founders intended presidential power to be…

Institutions vs. we the people  Government programs should not have eternal life By Cal Thomas New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is about as close to a conservative as that liberal newspaper publishes, wrote something last week that gets to the heart of why Democrats especially, but also some Republicans, fear a second Trump…

For release: 12/05/24 The Hunter Biden pardon By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question from David Muir of ABC News about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter. “I am not going to do anything, I will abide by the jury’s decision,”…

For release: 12/03/24 Institutions vs. We the people By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is about as close to a conservative as that liberal newspaper publishes, wrote something last week that gets to the heart of why Democrats, especially, but also some Republicans, fear a second Trump administration. After extolling…

For release: 11/28/24 The evolution of Thanksgiving By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The annual American holiday called Thanksgiving formally began with a 1863 proclamation from Abraham Lincoln declaring the last Thursday in November a day of “thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens,” as well as “humble penitence for…

For release: 11/26/24 Fluoride: Good or bad? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in opposition to fluoride in the water supply. Dr. Ladapo cites controversial studies that claim the additive poses a risk to developing brains. I shall resist the temptation to draw…

For release: 11/21/24 To vet or not to vet By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There is a reason the Founders wrote Article 2, section 2 and clause 2 into the U.S. Constitution. They gave power to the president to nominate people to high office, but that power was not absolute. It limited a president’s…

For release: 11/05/24 Is it too early to talk 2028? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency What can a columnist do when his deadline is Election Day and he doesn’t know who has won the presidency and other offices (and we likely might not know for days, or more, if the polls are right about…

For release: 11/06/24 Democracy lives in brightness By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the end, Kamala Harris was the wrong candidate with the wrong message at the wrong time. President-elect Donald Trump won the greatest comeback in American political history – bigger than Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory – by surviving two assassination attempts, a…

For release: 11/19/24\ Trimming obese government By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Fifty years ago when Ron Paul (father of Sen. Rand Paul) was running for Congress from Texas, a billboard featured an obese Uncle Sam with the caption “let’s put big government on a diet.” Since then, the federal government has grown even more…