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For release: 07/17/25 Bibi tells the truth By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             During his visit to Washington last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed for an hour by Fox News and radio host Mark Levin. The interview was a rebuke to the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slant so many in the media…

For release: 07/15/25 Veritas gets a reboot By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             It took threats to cut off its federal funding following anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations for Harvard University to consider again pursuing what used to be the foundation of its motto “Veritas,” or truth.             The Wall Street Journal reports that…

For release: 07/10/25 Politics in the pulpit By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship that was supposed to keep them from endorsing candidates for political office.             The root of the ban extends back to 1954. Then-Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) was…

For release: 07/08/25 Selling the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It’s one thing to pass a major piece of legislation and have it signed by the president; it’s quite another to get the public to swallow it as something that benefits most of the country. House and Senate Democrats, who stood…

For release: 07/03/25 Let the countdown begin By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency             Those annoying countdown clocks the cable TV networks use to let us know how much time remains before a presidential address or something else regarded as worthy of our attention might be useful as America begins the countdown to the 250th…

For release: 07/01/25 What happened to Ukraine coverage? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal did a rare story on the Ukraine war, though it was buried on page A 10, after a front-page teaser. That has been the pattern until Russia launched a massive drone attack against Ukraine on Sunday which attracted some…

CAL THOMAS For release: 06/26/25 Make America clean again By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency        SAN FRANCISCO, California — Following trips to different countries over many years I have longed to return home and hear these words from an immigration office: “Welcome back to the United States.”        Something felt different this time. After…

For release: 06/24/25 Trump did the right thing By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time. As usual, some in the major media got it wrong. The New York Times initially headlined:…

CAL THOMAS For release: 06/10/25 Escape and return By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency CAM RANH, Vietnam – The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha – known to…

For release: 06/12/25 What did losing the war mean? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left –…