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For release: 08/20/24 San Francisco plus 40 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The first Democratic National Convention I attended was in San Francisco in 1984. UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick indelibly labeled attendees “San Francisco Democrats,” because of their left-leaning policies. Forty years later it appears little has changed. Then, Vice President Walter Mondale, who…

For release: 08/15/24 Back to (chaotic) schools By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In normal years, which were not that long ago, students would look forward to returning to or entering college as freshmen. After violent anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstrations on some college campuses, many fear this semester might see a repeat of the prior…

For release: 08/13/24 Informing low-information voters By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Bring back Jay Leno! The former host of the “Tonight Show” had a segment called “Jaywalking” during which he would ask people on the street easy questions they often couldn’t answer. Leno : “If someone says they are going to Great Britain what…

For release: 08/08/24 Donald: Do the debate By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There is no downside for Donald Trump debating Vice President Kamala Harris next month on ABC News. Trump made the right decision to show  up at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago last week (Harris didn’t appear, due to…

For release: 08/08/24 Donald: Do the debate By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There is no downside for Donald Trump debating Vice President Kamala Harris next month on ABC News. Trump made the right decision to show  up at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago last week (Harris didn’t appear, due to…

For release: 08/06/24 The Secret Service makes me nervous By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In 1962, composer Irving Berlin debuted his final musical, “Mr. President.”  The show has a silly little song that contains the lyric “the Secret Service makes me nervous.” I thought of that song after the real Secret Service failed to…

For release: 08/01/24 Kamala Harris and the ‘flashy thing’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the film “Men in Black,” a pen-like device causes people to forget everything they have seen and heard. Actor Will Smith calls it a “flashy thing.” It appears the media and Democrats are metaphorically using a similar device, hoping…

For release: 07/30/24 Telling the truth about Gaza and Israel By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Last week one of the world’s great orators came to Washington and delivered an address to Congress that was so powerful and so true that a number of Democrat progressives boycotted his remarks, apparently because they can’t handle the…

For release: 07/25/24 The CrowdStrike warning By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “A defective update to an obscure piece of security software knocked out security systems around the globe Friday, causing widespread disruptions to travel, medical care and businesses of all stripes while revealing in stunning fashion the fragility of a world economy on shared…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/23/24 Biden’s withdrawal doesn’t mean Harris automatically succeeds him By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency What is amusing and simultaneously contributes to the cynicism some feel about politics is how many Democrats claimed until recently that President Biden was a different man in private than the mumbling, stumbling man everyone could…