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CAL THOMAS For release: 11/03/22 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, [email protected].) What the election in Brazil can teach America By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Brazil held a presidential election last Sunday. Here’s how The Wall Street Journal reported the result: “Brazilians elected Luiz ‘Lula’ da…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS For release: 11/01/22 Last man no longer standing By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency He called himself “the last man standing,” a reference to the rock ‘n’ roll icons of which he was among the most notable. Jerry Lee Lewis died last week at age 87. He was the last in a line…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS For release: 10/27/22 Cheating the children By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency While President Biden is trying to win a court victory for his student debt forgiveness proposal, he should be focusing instead on the latest dreadful report by the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). In what is called the nation’s report…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS For release: 10/25/22 Trump: You’re not a dictator By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Former President Donald Trump says any member of his administration who runs for president against him – should he decide to run again in 2024 – would be engaging in an act of disloyalty. Appearing on Fox Radio’s Brian…
Read MoreBiden’s cynical new border policy By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency San Antonio, Texas – After refusing to do anything substantive about stopping the flood of migrants entering the country illegally, President Biden has acted, sort of. Only a cynic would say his order to deport certain Venezuelans, but not migrants from 40 other nations,…
Read MoreFor release: 10/18/22 Justice denied in Parkland killings By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency If anyone ever was a better candidate for the death penalty it is Nikolas Cruz. Four years ago the then-20-year-old shot and killed 17 people, most of them students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Cruz pleaded guilty…
Read MoreChristian nationalism By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The subject of “Christian nationalism” has again appeared in our political life, establishing residence in the Republican Party. It is nothing new, though, having taken many forms in the past, including Moral Rearmament, Prohibition, Christian Reconstructionism, Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition. In each incarnation, people have…
Read MoreA prophecy come true By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In 2015, when a Supreme Court majority ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that “state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United…
Read MoreHurricane Kamala By Cal Thomas The next time a hurricane develops it should be named Kamala, in honor of our vice president. Why Kamala, you ask? Because, like a hurricane, Kamala Harris is sometimes difficult to track, her direction is often unpredictable and the damage she causes can be substantial. Fresh off her remark (hailing)…
Read MoreFree speech vs. banning Jews By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The University of California, Berkeley is known for many things, some good and some very bad, even outrageous. In 1964, a ban on campus political and religious activities launched what was called the free speech and academic freedom movement that quickly spread to other…
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