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CAL THOMAS For release: 06/10/25 Escape and return By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency CAM RANH, Vietnam – The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha – known to…

For release: 06/12/25 What did losing the war mean? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left –…

For release: 06/17/25 Hit ’em hard and again By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ‘em hard…

For release: 06/19/25 Handicapping the LA protests By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It would be amusing if it weren’t so serious. Last weekend’s expressions of supposed free speech were almost universally called demonstrations by the media and “mostly peaceful” by some. In contrast, the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol was labeled…

For release: 06/03/25 The one, big, ugly bill By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency After many years living in and covering Washington, there is one overriding principle I have learned: If you don’t trust politicians you will never be disappointed. President Trump and the House Republican leadership promised that what Trump called “the one, big,…

For release: 05/29/25 Watch your language By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The beginning of summer offers a columnist the opportunity to address subjects he might avoid the rest of the year because of his focus on domestic and foreign issues. Inattention to proper English seems to be a subject that few are bothering to…

For release: 05/27/25 You’ve got to be taught to hate By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency While contemplating the horror of two young and soon to be engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last…

CAL THOMAS For release: 05/20/25 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, tcacustomerservice@tribpub.com.) The Wilson-Biden cover-ups By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The massive cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline, which is only now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds…

For release: 05/13/25 Bad political theater in Newark By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in “Coriolanus” and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was “Fiorello!”, a 1959 musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.  What happened in Newark last week was…

For release: 05/15/25 The high price of drugs By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Is there anyone who thinks prescription drug prices in America are about right? President Trump has elevated an issue Democrats have been jawboning about for years. On Monday the president issued an Executive Order (EO) he says will decrease the cost…