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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…

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…