Columns

Matthew Perry and the cult of celebrity By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I never saw an episode of “Friends,” but that is probably because I am from the television era that began with black- and-white pictures and television screens so small you had to draw a chair up to the box to see a…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/31/23 Dracula and spending cuts By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Among the top priorities for newly selected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was his announced intention to form a bipartisan panel to cut massive spending that has led to an unsustainable $33 trillion national debt. The pragmatist in me cheers,…

For release: 10/26/23 Israel’s difficult choices By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was struggling over when to order the D-Day invasion of Europe in 1944, he wrestled with uncooperative weather, but also worried that any more delays beyond the one-day delay he had already ordered could possibly lower morale and…

For release: 10/24/23  What’s needed is renovation By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Some popular shows on PBS and cable TV are about renovating old houses – taking dilapidated, out-of-fashion and dreary houses and turning them into modern, functioning, and attractive places in which to live. Renovation is precisely what is needed in our country…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/19/23 What a Palestinian state would look like By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency       On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, President Biden said he thinks it would be a “mistake … for Israel to occupy … Gaza again.” He also conceded that eliminating Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon “is a necessary…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/17/23 Raw antisemitism exposed By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.” (Psalm 83:4) The murderous attack on Israel has ripped away what remained of a thin veneer that has covered up growing antisemitism in America and…

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,…