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Propaganda American style By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency As with many things, propaganda can be used for good or for ill, depending on who dispenses it. During World War II, American propaganda was considered a necessary tool in the pursuit of victory in a moral cause. Germany and Japan had their own propaganda machines…

Ignorance and apathy By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There’s an old joke about a fictitious poll taker who asked people what they thought about ignorance and apathy when it comes to politics and elections. One respondent said, “I don’t know, and I don’t care.” I thought of that joke after seeing a recent YouGov…

What would Walt think? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill passed by the Republican-majority legislature that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando. This was in response to the company’s current leadership and some of its employees who have protested…

Elon Musk and free speech By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Americans who subscribe to “traditional values” have had to put up with a lot from the left in the name of the First Amendment. From vulgarities on TV (self-described First Amendment defenders said things like, “If you don’t like, it change the channel”), to…

Parents rights: Round 2 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The battle over whether parents, or public schools and elites should decide what goes into the minds and souls of students has entered a second stage. The Washington Times reports LGBTQ activist groups are complaining about parents who object to children as young as five…

Condemn or redeem Will Smith? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Actor Denzel Washington has done something increasingly rare these days. Variety reports Bishop T.D. Jakes interviewed Washington about Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock during the recent Academy Awards ceremony. Washington said, “But for the grace of God go any of us. Who are…

By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency During the 1994 congressional campaign, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Dick Armey (R-TX) drew up what they called a Contract with America. It was printed on a card which was small enough to fit in a wallet or purse and it detailed what Republicans would do should voters give…

Walk forward better By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It’s an old Washington political trick. When you’re in trouble, change the subject. When President Biden’s poll numbers are low and falling, when the economy has produced the worst inflation in four decades and gas prices in some states have reached record highs, when he claims…

JFK, Reagan and Biden By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency President Biden’s speech from Warsaw Saturday night, reminded me of two previous presidents who delivered speeches confronting the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and is now Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, a man Biden has rightly called a war criminal. On June 26,…

Dealing with the Iranian devil By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When one sits down to make a deal with the devil, it is the devil who usually wins. That’s because he is “crafty,” as the book of Genesis describes him. The United States and Iran appear on the cusp of a deal that President…