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CAL THOMAS For release: 12/21/23 Merry Tifton By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             Some years ago, D. James Kennedy preached a Christmas sermon at his Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, that became his most requested message.             It was titled “Merry Tifton” and it was a metaphor based on a popular…

For release: 12/14/23 Root causes of lower learning By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency       We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the “root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets.       Often, this call to examine…

Norman Lear and Me                                                           by Cal Thomas       Television producer Norman Lear, who died last week at age 101, probably could not get away today with what he put on the small screen in the 1970s, including “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons.” As Mel Brooks did in “The Producers,” Lear…

For release: 12/07/23 Let them eat chicken By Cal Thomas             The worthies attending the United Nations COP28 climate summit in Dubai are mostly not eating meat. That’s because they believe and have been told that meat leads to flatulence and flatulence leads to “global warming.” Instead, they’re getting mostly plant-based food. In another fitting…

CAL THOMAS For release: 12/05/23 A disappointing non-debate By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency If you watched the so-called “debate” between Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis and California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom (a presidential candidate in waiting), hoping to witness something that elevated the political rhetoric from the corrosive to the tolerable,…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/30/23 We’ve seen this ‘film’ before By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Some movies are worth watching more than once. The one now playing in the Middle East isn’t one of them. How many times must we see this plot repeated and not recognize it for what it is: terrorists kill…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/28/23 Evangelicals conforming to the world By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency More than 150 Iowa “faith leaders” have announced they are supporting Donald Trump in the state’s forthcoming caucuses. At the same time, Bob Vander Plaats, an influential Iowa evangelical leader, is supporting Ron DeSantis. Predictably, Donald Trump slammed Vander…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/21/23 Solution to debt: Cut spending By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Congress just passed – and PresidentBiden just signed – the latest short-term government funding bill to keep the government running. The bill, which essentially kicks the can down the road, ensures that taxpayers will continue to pay for a…

CAL THOMAS For release: 11/23/23 Have an attitude of gratitude this Thanksgiving By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Thanksgiving in 1863, it probably seemed to many an odd time to be thankful. The nation was torn apart by the Civil War. Still, Lincoln found much for which to…

For release: 11/16/23 No fooling the voters By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Few politicians say things that immortalize their words. Abraham Lincoln was a notable exception. The 16th president’s comment about fooling voters resonates today: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the…