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For release: 09/09/25 The autopen controversy By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The autopen has been around in one form or another since Thomas Jefferson was president. According to shapell.org, “In 2005, George W. Bush was the first president to enquire with the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the president to sign…

For release: 08/28/25 Flagging flag burners (again) By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             President Trump wants to penalize anyone who burns the American flag. After initially announcing his intent – apparently before being told the Supreme Court has already said burning the flag is protected under the free expression clause of the First Amendment…

For release: 08/26/25 Trump on crime By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             Democrats have lost another issue. They had hoped to tie President Trump to “ungentlemanly behavior” at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s “Love Island,” but no less a character witness than Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer of underage girls and young women, has told Justice…

For release: 08/21/25 Migrating from blue to red states By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency During the high inflation days of the Biden administration, many of the less than well-off were forced to cut back on their spending, whether it was food, gasoline or in some cases medication. Some migrated from blue states to red…

For release: 08/19/25 Did Trump get rolled in Alaska? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             Promising severe consequences if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine and then apparently reversing himself is what sends a signal of weakness, not only to Putin, but to the world.             On Saturday, Trump…

For release: 08/14/2 Washington, D.C.: Then and now By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             I was born in Washington, D.C., at the end of 1942. Growing up in the suburbs there was so little crime it made the front page in the city’s three newspapers. Today, unless someone who works on Capitol Hill is…

For release: 08/12/25 Back to safer schools? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency        As President Trump prepares to head to Alaska to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop the killing” in Russia and Ukraine, what is being done to stop school shootings in America as millions of children begin returning to their…

For release: 08/07/25 Sydney Sweeney joins the woke brokers By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             Some fads end slowly, taking up to a generation to disappear. Others are like lightning, bursting on the scene unexpectedly, destroying all in its path.             This is what has happened in the Sydney Sweeney storm.  An ad for…

For release: 08/05/25 Why fixate on 2028? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency August is usually downtime in Washington. Congress is in recess, the heat and humidity contribute to the desire to escape town for cooler weather, the president is normally somewhere else and cable news is focused on shark attacks. Not this August. Cable news, especially,…

by Cal Thomas for release July 31, 2025 In the Middle East, war is conducted not only with bullets and missiles, but also with pictures. The latest are pictures of allegedly starving children in Gaza distributed by Hamas and its enablers with the intention of blaming Israel for delaying, even denying entry of food trucks…