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A better 2021? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I don’t like making predictions for a new year because they are just guesses and like palm readers, fortune-tellers and “experts,” guesses are often wrong. The point was proved last year when I predicted Donald Trump’s re-election and could not foresee the COVID-19 virus, as few…

CAL THOMAS For release: 12/24/20 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, [email protected].) The power of Christmas By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Of all the great and small events of 1991, the death of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” co-host Harry Reasoner probably rates near the bottom in…

Gifts that keep on giving By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency A phrase one hears this time of year is about gifts that “keep on giving.” Most store-bought gifts are soon forgotten, but are there some gifts with timeless value? I suspect most people want their lives to matter, especially to others. Is that achieved…

After Trump, what (and who) for the GOP? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency At the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) delivered a speech following his defeat by Jimmy Carter for the presidential nomination. The speech was boilerplate liberalism. Kennedy criticized Republicans and Ronald Reagan for their ideas, which…

Hunting for Hunter Biden By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It isn’t that the alleged exploits, profits and questionable business deals involving Hunter Biden and his father, Joe Biden, were not known for most of this election year. Much of mainstream media either ignored it or put it down as right-wing extremism. Until now. We’ve…

Trump is still winning on the economy By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Some people can’t handle success. The latest jobs report shows that despite the pandemic President Trump’s policies of lower taxes and reducing regulations continue to work. Raising taxes and imposing regulations, as Joe Biden has pledged to do, has historically had the…

The dog, the fracture and the ‘palmists’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Whenever president-elect Joe Biden makes a rare public appearance and is out of the immediate control of his team it increases my suspicions that he is not physically, and above all mentally, up to the job he is about to take over.…

Worship the state, or else By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In totalitarian societies, governments suppress the church and religious worship. That’s because dictators believe citizens should worship them as the highest authority and not a Higher Authority, which they view as a threat to their power and position. In the United States, the threat…

 A most unusual Thanksgiving I have loved song lyrics since briefly flirting in my teens and early 20s with a career in musical comedy, settling instead for journalism after a sobering assessment of my talents. Lyricists, from Jerome Kern, to Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Frederick Loewe, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerry…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/26/20 (NOTICE: For retransmission or other content delivery inquiries, please contact TCA Customer Service, 1-800-346-8798, [email protected].) A most unusual Thanksgiving By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I have loved song lyrics since briefly flirting in my teens and early 20s with a career in musical comedy, settling instead for journalism after…