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For release: 10/22/23 Robbing the children’s future By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES – The second-largest school district in the country is suffering from academic afflictions of its own making. While test scores show a continuing decline at the high school level in math proficiency (21 percent) and reading (51 percent), is the…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/10/23 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, [email protected].) The Yom Kippur War – plus 50 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency On Sept. 22, 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. It did not take someone with the power of…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/05/23 Trump: Not a great man By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency                                 “It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man.” – Calvin Coolidge Donald Trump is not a great man. His…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/03/23 Honest talk on immigration By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The phrase “Climate change denier” has wormed its way into the modern lexicon to shame those who have a different view of the science supporting, or not, the idea that the world is in danger of burning up in weeks,…

Rupert Murdoch: Right from the start By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency LONDON – To read and watch the reaction of people who have hated Fox News from its creation, one might think it resembles dancing on someone’s grave, but at 92, Rupert Murdoch remains very much alive and his influence, not only on Fox,…

CAL THOMAS For release: 09/21/23 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, [email protected].) British to be forced to drive electric By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency LONDON – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after first announcing a mandate requiring all fossil fueled vehicles sold in the UK after…

The ‘hypocrisy’ label has lost its power By Cal Thomas There was a time in bygone America when calling someone a “hypocrite” or claiming they were guilty of hypocrisy was equivalent to branding them with a scarlet letter or the mark of Cain. Today, in an era of opinion polls, trendsetting, and ever-shifting political winds,…

For release: 09/12/23 What to do about the crime wave By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.” (XunZi – ancient Chinese philosopher) Walking along a street in Madrid in the 1970s after…

For release: 09/05/23 Getting the Saudi-Israel formula wrong By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency If one is mixing chemicals, getting the formula wrong can produce disastrous results. It is the same with international diplomacy. For decades the left was wrong about the Soviet Union and China, believing that what the U.S. did or did not…

For release: 2023-09-05 Tribune Content Agency Cal Thomas It’s been a good summer for climate activists who are pushing the false narrative of “climate change.” We had the Canadian wildfires with smoke drifting into other parts of North America. Then there were hotter than usual temperatures in many parts of the country (it’s summertime and…