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NO CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It is even more amazing what has been accomplished with the…

Once a terrorist always a terrorist By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the release of self-admitted “American Taliban” member John Walker Lindh “unexplainable and unconscionable.” Lindh, who was paroledlast Thursday from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for illegally aiding Taliban forces.…

Among the many things that frustrate Americans about Washington, D.C., is the unwillingness — not inability, but unwillingness — to solve problems. One example is the U.S. national debt, now more than $22 trillion and counting. As Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James has written, “The federal budget is at the core of our political…

The pro-life movement’s moment By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Since 1973, when Roe vs. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect babies born aliveafter failed procedures — the pro-life movement has achieved few legislative victories. That may be about to change. While New…

My sentimental journey with Doris Day By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It was Oscar Levant who uttered the famous line: “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” In a way it was a backhanded compliment to a woman who represented in most of her film roles an image of chastity and virtue…

Back to the past with Joe Biden By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Joe Biden, the leading Democrat in the overcrowded presidential sweepstakes (there are more of them running than horses in the recent Kentucky Derby), appears to want to take America back to the days of the Obama administration, which he was a part…

A solution to college debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgivenessprogram in 2007 in an attempt to attract people into professions like teaching, nursing and public-interest law. College graduates would be forgiven their student loans if they pursued a career in such professions. The Wall Street Journalreports the program is…

Remembering the pioneers By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency In a country preoccupied with presidential candidates preaching extreme liberalism and even unabashed socialism comes America’s greatest living historian, David McCullough, with a new and needed book. It’s called “The Pioneers” and the subtitle is its theme: “The heroic story of the settlers who brought the…

Signs of the times By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It took a few days, but the New York Timesfinally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind President Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dog resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dog…

The Democrats’ economy problem By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency How long can Democrats continue to claim the roaring economy should be credited to the Obama administration? How many, except the self-deluded, actually believe this? The latest bad news for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates is the 3.2 percent GDP growth in the first quarter of this…