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For release: 06/20/23 What’s inappropriate? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently used a word that seems to have disappeared from our anything goes culture. Asked to comment on transgender activist Rose Montoya, who posted on social media “a video of herself and two others going topless for a…

Chris Licht and the decline of journalism By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Before the recently fired CNN President Chris Licht fades into a Google search, it is important to reflect on what he tried to do and why it was equivalent to offering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse. In the lengthy Atlantic magazine interview…

CAL THOMAS For release: 06/13/23 The Trump indictment By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In reporting on news of a federal indictment of former president Donald Trump, the UK Daily Mail posted a video of Joe Biden backing his Corvette into the garage which contained boxes of classified documents. But the next day the same…

CAL THOMAS For release: 06/06/23 Trump never changes By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It wasn’t a difficult choice to watch the first of the NBA playoff games between Miami and Denver instead of Donald Trump’s appearance on “Hannity,” but when Denver built a 12-point lead, I switched channels to see if Trump might say…

The debt deal: Could it have been better? Cal ThomasTribune Content AgencyCal ThomasIt was either the best deal that could have been reached given the political makeup of the House, Senate and White House, or it was a bad deal that might have been much better had Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans held out…

CAL THOMAS For release: 05/30/23 No will, no way By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” is an old and familiar quotation, often attributed to Albert Einstein, who was on to something almost as significant as E=MC2. What if there is no will, is there still a way? It…

CAL THOMAS For release: 05/25/23 Tim Scott: The new Reagan By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It’s been a while since we’ve heard the kind of optimism contained in Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) announcement of a presidential run. Usually, it is gloom and doom, racism, white supremacy, claims that Republicans want to eliminate Social Security…

CAL THOMAS For release: 05/16/23 Trump and the old razzle dazzle By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” – George Carlin Former president Donald Trump’s appearance at a CNN Republican Town Hall in New Hampshire stretched the truth beyond any…

CAL THOMAS For release: 05/09/23 Crowning Trump king By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency    The crowning of Charles III as king of England and the shrinking realm of the United Kingdom was not the only coronation taking place in the world.    Increasingly, evangelical Christians in the U.S. are treating Donald Trump as their…

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…