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For release: 04/13/23 Politics then and now By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency From the beginning politics has always been a contact sport with competing interests attempting to achieve power over each other. A friend recently said to me he has never seen it so bad as it is today. The friend appears to be…

CAL THOMAS For release: 04/06/23 Trump unites, then divides By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There are several ways of looking at the events that occurred this week inside a Manhattan courtroom and later at Donald Trump’s home in Florida. First, the indictment of the former president for illegally “conspiring” to win the White House…

CAL THOMAS For release: 04/04/23 For Trump: Character matters By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency ​Leaving aside all the sometimes legitimate and sometimes illegitimate responses from defenders of former President Donald Trump following his indictment by a New York grand jury, there is something that would have made all the difference for the 45th president had…

The ‘Outpouring’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Wilmore, KY – The secular and cynical find it difficult to believe not only that “God governs in the affairs of men,” as Benjamin Franklin said, but that He would visit a small town where there are few traffic lights and a decent restaurant is several miles…

California: A Failed State For release: 03/23/23 California demons By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The state of California, once a place where people moved to find beauty, prosperity, and great weather (earthquakes and fires aside), is rapidly becoming a failed state. People are leaving in droves. Between July 2021 and July 2022, California lost…

Trump should follow LBJ’s example By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency If, as seems likely, Donald Trump is indicted by a New York grand jury for reportedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and if, as also seems likely, Trump is also indicted by a Georgia grand jury for trying to force election…

     For Releaase March 15, 2023 SVB Not Anyone’s Fault?       by Cal Thomas       One of the benefits of being a Washington insider, from the President of the United States to the lowliest bureaucrat, is never having to admit your policies are wrong.       In the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – the nation’s tenth…

For release: 03/16/23 SVB not anyone’s fault? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One of the benefits of being a Washington insider, from the president of the United States to the lowliest bureaucrat, is never having to admit your policies are wrong. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – the nation’s 10th largest…

For release: 03/14/23 A hard pill to swallow By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced the state will not do business with the Walgreens store chain “or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk.” Notice the familiar buzzwords – extremists and putting women’s…

CAL THOMAS For release: 03/09/23 A different narrative on Jan. 6 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently aired on his show portions of the Jan. 6th video footage he received from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Carlson claims the previously unseen video shows a broader picture than the narrow one…