Columns

For release: 04/30/24 Lessons from other campus protests By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency         The year was 1966 and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” and other college campuses throughout the state that were experiencing protests and strikes over…

For release: 04/25/24 Adding to the Title IX law By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency                     What the Biden administration is doing to the Title IX civil rights law, the purpose of which is, among other things, to ensure equality between men’s and women’s sports, reminds me of a childhood game. We kids would sit…

A taxing time For Release April 16, 2024 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me.…

For release: 04/11/24 Trump’s abortion statement By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency         Donald Trump issued a lengthy statement on abortion this past Monday. It is the latest of several positions he has taken on an issue that continues to be hotly debated. Each statement is supposedly a matter of Trump’s “conviction,” though some have been…

For release: 04/09/24 Repeat, repeat, repeat By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency         Repetition while teaching children is a necessary tool that allows them to absorb information and to build on it for future understanding. It is why my teachers required repeating times tables and words in language class. When it comes to the Middle East,…

For release: 04/04/24 When will it end? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency  Another day, another dead New York City police officer, another grieving widow. The familiarity of these incidents should breed more than contempt. Instead, we get meaningless condemnations from politicians who are responsible for putting district attorneys in office that do not protect…

For release: 04/02/24 One more try at reducing the debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”  – Polonius to his son Laertes in “Hamlet” It may be too late given the number of Americans who have willingly allowed themselves to become dependent on government more than themselves, but…

For release: 03/28/24 Checking the Black Box By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Two men with decidedly different political outlooks have been my go-to sources on race in America. They are Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., professor and director of the Hutchins Center for…

CAL THOMAS For release: 03/26/24 Moscow massacre: Could it happen here? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency A mass shooting at a concert hall in Moscow killed more than 130 people. With many others seriously or gravely wounded the number of dead is likely to rise. The Islamic state released a statement claiming “credit” for…

For release: 03/19/24 The smell of mendacity By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.”…