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For release: 08/08/24 Donald: Do the debate By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There is no downside for Donald Trump debating Vice President Kamala Harris next month on ABC News. Trump made the right decision to show  up at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago last week (Harris didn’t appear, due to…

For release: 08/06/24 The Secret Service makes me nervous By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In 1962, composer Irving Berlin debuted his final musical, “Mr. President.”  The show has a silly little song that contains the lyric “the Secret Service makes me nervous.” I thought of that song after the real Secret Service failed to…

For release: 08/01/24 Kamala Harris and the ‘flashy thing’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the film “Men in Black,” a pen-like device causes people to forget everything they have seen and heard. Actor Will Smith calls it a “flashy thing.” It appears the media and Democrats are metaphorically using a similar device, hoping…

For release: 07/30/24 Telling the truth about Gaza and Israel By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Last week one of the world’s great orators came to Washington and delivered an address to Congress that was so powerful and so true that a number of Democrat progressives boycotted his remarks, apparently because they can’t handle the…

For release: 07/25/24 The CrowdStrike warning By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “A defective update to an obscure piece of security software knocked out security systems around the globe Friday, causing widespread disruptions to travel, medical care and businesses of all stripes while revealing in stunning fashion the fragility of a world economy on shared…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/23/24 Biden’s withdrawal doesn’t mean Harris automatically succeeds him By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency What is amusing and simultaneously contributes to the cynicism some feel about politics is how many Democrats claimed until recently that President Biden was a different man in private than the mumbling, stumbling man everyone could…

For release: 07/18/24 What Trump should say Thursday night By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday night and accepts for the third time the Republican Party’s nomination for president, he faces an opportunity and a temptation. The temptation is to launch a full-bore attack on Democrats, President Biden, the…

For release: 07/16/24 Tone down the rhetoric By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/11/24 Project 2025 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One way to measure the power of conservative policy proposals is to monitor the reaction of the left. The Heritage Foundation’s ideas for the next conservative president to implement must be good because liberals are hysterical in their opposition. And that’s because…

For release: 07/11/24 Project 2025 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One way to measure the power of conservative policy proposals is to monitor the reaction of the left. The Heritage Foundation’s ideas for the next conservative president to implement must be good because liberals are hysterical in their opposition. And that’s because they directly…