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Racism, rioting and redemption By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It was a night I shall never forget.  The date was April 4, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis and I was flying home to Washington, D.C., from Atlanta. As the plane descended over National Airport, I could see flames.…

Biden’s disturbing pattern  By Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency For Release 05/27/2020 Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told an African American talk show host last week: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” It was not a one-off remark. After strong condemnation, including from…

Stealth legislation By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In the pantheon of great lines suitable for induction into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2010 comment about Obamacare: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” While that seemed outrageous and even comical to many at…

Opening up America By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The choice before us seems to be no choice at all: stay inside and have no human contact with another soul, keep businesses closed, denying a livelihood to millions, or step outside and risk death. Though I believe the risk is small when comparing the number…

Opening up America By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The choice before us seems to be no choice at all: stay inside and have no human contact with another soul, keep businesses closed, denying a livelihood to millions, or step outside and risk death. Though I believe the risk is small when comparing the number…

Michael Flynn’s exoneration By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency For three years former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was put through a legal and financial wringer by top officials within the FBI, including its then-director James Comey. The FBI investigation threatened to destroy Flynn’s career, finances and life, as, according to the New York Post,…

COVID-19 not the only threat from China By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent demise of the Soviet Union two years later lulled the West into a false sense of security. Many appeared to believe that an age of unending peace and prosperity had been…

The two faces of Joe Biden By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Even if the sexual assault allegations by former Joe Biden staff member Tara Reade turn out to be false there are still problems the former vice president faces. The first and most important of these is whether he can win his party’s nomination.…

Once upon a time in another America By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The Wall Street Journal, which is generally considered conservative when it comes to economic issues, published a front-page story last Monday with this headline: “Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is Back.” Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff for President Obama…

Then and now By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Getting my parents and grandparents to talk about their experiences during the Great Depression and World War II was always difficult. They lived in the pre-Dr. Phil generation before people went public with their deepest thoughts. I have been thinking how they might have responded to…