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CAL THOMAS For release: 04/25/23 This should not be surprising By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron is behaving like many other politicians. Following massive demonstrations against his enactment of a law raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, Macron seems to be taking a page from…

CAL THOMAS For release: 04/27/23 Israel at 75 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency JERUSALEM – Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures. (Psalm 90:10) The modern state of Israel has reached the average length of days prescribed by the Psalmist for humans and yet the nation endures in…

CAL THOMAS For release: 05/02/23 The debt limit: Same old song By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency    The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 27, 2023     MARK THIESEN IS A FORMER SPEECH WRITER FOR GEORGE W. BUSH. HE APPEARS REGULARLY ON FOX NEWS AND WRITES A COLUMN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST.     IN HIS LATEST COLUMN, THIESEN DIGS INTO THAT NBC NEWS POLL WHICH FOUND 60 PERCENT OF VOTERS DON’T WANT TRUMP AS PRESIDENT…

For release: 04/27/23 Israel at 75 By Cal Thomas JERUSALEM – Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures. (Psalm 90:10) The modern state of Israel has reached the average length of days prescribed by the Psalmist for humans and yet the nation endures in years and with ever-increasing strength.…

For release: 04/25/23 This should not be surprising By Cal Thomas Macron and the Protesters PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron is behaving like many other politicians. Following massive demonstrations against his enactment of a law raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, Macron seems to be taking a page from America’s Democratic Party playbook…

For release: 04/20/23 Promoting lawlessness in Chicago By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!” – Mehmet Murat ildan (Turkish playwright) That didn’t take long. The Mayor-elect…

CAL THOMAS For release: 04/18/23 More or less By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Everywhere one looks these days it appears services and products cost more but deliver less than they once did. That seems especially true when it comes to the federal government. President Biden wants to raise taxes again. Unlikely, given the Republican…

For release: 04/13/23 Politics then and now By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency From the beginning politics has always been a contact sport with competing interests attempting to achieve power over each other. A friend recently said to me he has never seen it so bad as it is today. The friend appears to be…

CAL THOMAS For release: 04/06/23 Trump unites, then divides By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There are several ways of looking at the events that occurred this week inside a Manhattan courtroom and later at Donald Trump’s home in Florida. First, the indictment of the former president for illegally “conspiring” to win the White House…