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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…

The many forms of censorship By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There has been much in the news lately about censorship. The major media have been reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to keep the Russian people from hearing the truth about his war against Ukraine and what President Biden has called war crimes. Dictionary.com offers…

The woman and the post office By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The line at the post office was long, so the woman in front of me decided to turn around and start a conversation. She was concerned about the current generation of young people and whether they would have enough inner strength to stand…

Deeper and deeper in debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In his State of the Union address, President Biden claimed he would, be “the only president to ever cut the deficit by more than $1 trillion in a single year.” While this is technically true, he ignores the fact that the reduction in the…

The cost of the Russian war keeps rising By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. stock market, which has been “stumbling since the beginning of the year,” writes the New York Times, is down “10.3 percent from its most recent peak on Jan. 3,” and the…

What is America’s foreign policy? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union. America’s foreign policy and goals were clear then: containment and opposition to communist expansion. Nuclear weapons were a deterrent, but neither side believed the other would use them. Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed…

By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When a president’s poll numbers are tanking, as the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows they are for President Biden — 37 percent approval — he needed to do something spectacular, even radical, to keep him from sinking further. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, he did nothing…

CAL THOMAS For release: 03/01/22 Beckel and me: An odd couple By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency As often happens among the political class in Washington, we met on television debating each other. I liked him immediately, despite our political and even religious differences. Bob Beckel and I became friends and eventually more than friends.…