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What the Election in Brazil Can Teach America                                        by Cal Thomas       Brazil held a presidential election last Sunday. Here’s how The Wall Street Journal reported the result: “Brazilians elected Luiz ‘Lula’ da Silva to the presidency again on Sunday, ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by less than two percent of the vote. Latin…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/08/22 What if/then what for GOP? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Assuming the polls are right – and history has shown that is sometimes a risky assumption – Republicans will take over the House of Representatives by a large margin following Tuesday‘s election and possibly even the Senate by enough seats…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/03/22 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, [email protected].) What the election in Brazil can teach America By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Brazil held a presidential election last Sunday. Here’s how The Wall Street Journal reported the result: “Brazilians elected Luiz ‘Lula’ da…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/01/22 Last man no longer standing By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency He called himself “the last man standing,” a reference to the rock ‘n’ roll icons of which he was among the most notable. Jerry Lee Lewis died last week at age 87. He was the last in a line…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/27/22 Cheating the children By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency While President Biden is trying to win a court victory for his student debt forgiveness proposal, he should be focusing instead on the latest dreadful report by the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). In what is called the nation’s report…

CAL THOMAS For release: 10/25/22 Trump: You’re not a dictator By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Former President Donald Trump says any member of his administration who runs for president against him – should he decide to run again in 2024 – would be engaging in an act of disloyalty. Appearing on Fox Radio’s Brian…

Biden’s cynical new border policy By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency San Antonio, Texas – After refusing to do anything substantive about stopping the flood of migrants entering the country illegally, President Biden has acted, sort of. Only a cynic would say his order to deport certain Venezuelans, but not migrants from 40 other nations,…

For release: 10/18/22 Justice denied in Parkland killings By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency If anyone ever was a better candidate for the death penalty it is Nikolas Cruz. Four years ago the then-20-year-old shot and killed 17 people, most of them students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Cruz pleaded guilty…

Christian nationalism By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The subject of “Christian nationalism” has again appeared in our political life, establishing residence in the Republican Party. It is nothing new, though, having taken many forms in the past, including Moral Rearmament, Prohibition, Christian Reconstructionism, Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition. In each incarnation, people have…

A prophecy come true By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In 2015, when a Supreme Court majority ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that “state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United…