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A Historian’s Historian

By Cal Thomas / August 9, 2022 /

McCullough’s history never boring By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I hated college history. The textbooks were mostly about dead white men, Abigail Adams excepted. The lectures were boring. I didn’t see how any of it related to my young life and future plans. Historian David McCullough, who died this week at age 89, helped…

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School Daze

By Cal Thomas / August 8, 2022 / Comments Off on School Daze

Back to school 2022 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency As parents prepare to send their children back to school, many will have made decisions about their child’s education that will not only put them on a different trajectory, but also impact the public education system, which is being used in too many districts to…

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SOROS AND HIS WOKE PROSECTORS

By Cal Thomas / August 2, 2022 / Comments Off on SOROS AND HIS WOKE PROSECTORS

George Soros and his woke prosecutors By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and bete noir of conservatives, has written a column for The Wall Street Journal, defending his donations to liberal prosecutors who are releasing criminals on low or no bail, resulting in their frequent commission of new crimes. Soros…

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Wonderland

By Cal Thomas / August 1, 2022 / Comments Off on Wonderland

Humpty Dumpty and the recession By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In Washington things are rarely what they seem. It’s why Congress labels bills with names they think will be more palatable to the public rather than a name that would accurately reflect the content of the legislation. Notice how many times over the years…

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ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants

By Cal Thomas / July 26, 2022 / Comments Off on ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants

To ID, or not to ID? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency During recent election seasons there has been a debate over whether a voter must present an identification card to cast a ballot and if so, what type? Congressional Democrats are considering legislation that would provide secure identification cards, not to U.S. citizens for…

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Slick Joey

By Cal Thomas / July 25, 2022 / Comments Off on Slick Joey

Joe’s dubious oil slick By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “Don’t they know it’s the end of the world…” (Skeeter Davis, 1962) President Biden has repeated a story he has told before, but repetition does not necessarily make it true. Speaking last week in Somerset, Massachusetts, where a coal-fired power plant once stood, Biden again…

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EXIT JOE

By Cal Thomas / July 20, 2022 / Comments Off on EXIT JOE

Jill to Joe: It’s over By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When your wife suggests you have failed at your job, it’s probably time to retire, or see if there is an opening as a Wal-Mart greeter. That appears to be what first lady Jill Biden suggested during a speech to a Democratic fundraiser in…

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By Cal Thomas / July 18, 2022 / Comments Off on

Extreme cases and bad law By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, pro-choice activists and their media allies have been on a campaign to influence public opinion that the decision was a mistake. They apparently believed they had discovered an ideal case when the Indianapolis…

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Bad Timing

By Cal Thomas / July 12, 2022 / Comments Off on Bad Timing

Biden’s poorly timed visit to the Middle East By Cal Thomas In 1988, five years after calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” President Ronald Reagan visited Moscow where he addressed an audience of students from Moscow State University. At the heart of his speech, Reagan promoted the virtues and success of liberty and his…

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BORDER PATROL EXONERATED (SORT OF)

By Cal Thomas / July 11, 2022 / Comments Off on BORDER PATROL EXONERATED (SORT OF)

Biden whiplashes border patrol By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Only in America, it seems, can border patrol agents be cleared of breaking any laws but still be punished, while those entering the country illegally mostly escape punishment. President Biden, then-press secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, all rushed to judgment…

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