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CAL THOMAS For release: 07/18/23 The Secret Service makes me nervous By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Irving Berlin’s last musical was a largely forgotten show called “Mr. President” (1962). One of the silly songs below his usual high standards included the lyric “The Secret Service makes me nervous.” That’s how I felt after the…

For release: 07/25/23 Tony Bennett: More than a ‘crooner’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It was in the early ’60s. I was a copyboy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/20/23 The French disconnection By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Imagine the U.S. canceling the Fourth of July holiday due to high crime in our cities and you get a sense of what has occurred in France. Cities across France canceled Bastille Day observances July 14 because of rioting that ignited…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/18/23 The Secret Service makes me nervous By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Irving Berlin’s last musical was a largely forgotten show called “Mr. President” (1962). One of the silly songs below his usual high standards included the lyric “The Secret Service makes me nervous.” That’s how I felt after the…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/13/23 Get tested, Joe By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It began shortly after President Biden’s inauguration. First, there were whispers and what seemed like slander on far-right websites and social media that the president was suffering from cognitive decline. His subsequent slurred speech, his trips and falls, and his confusion…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/11/23 Vice President Harris’ unknown language By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency If President Biden is serious about seeking a second term, he must fix the problem of his vice president, Kamala Harris. Though Biden’s poll numbers are currently not much better than Harris’, latest polling by the Los Angeles Times…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/06/23 The catastrophe du jour By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency King Charles III has launched a catastrophe countdown clock. It will tick until 2030, a year in which he predicts “serious consequences” if the world doesn’t effectively address “climate change.” Honestly, if you can’t trust the king, whom can you…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/04/23 A step toward true equality By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection…

Pride vs. shame By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency DUBROVNIK, Croatia – Twenty-one episodes of the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones” were filmed in this city of 16th-century high walls and complicated history. One of them was shot along a section of St. Dominic Street, known as the walk of shame. The very concept…

Whom to believe? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It is an unfortunate truism of politics that partisans tend to believe the worst about members of the opposite party and no amount of facts — if, indeed, facts can be agreed upon — move people from their entrenched positions. Largely, I think, it’s all about…