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Premises, premises By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Here is the problem for Trump critics. They began with the wrong premise. They believed that Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election. Then they deluded themselves by embracing the notion that Trump was illegitimate, unstable, stupid and an offense to everything they consider normal.…

How could they? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist church had sexually abused as many as 700 people in 400 churches, including victims as young as 3, was “how could they?” It was the same reaction I had when news of predatory…

Getting easier to be ‘green’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Kermit the Frog was wrong. It is now easy to be “green.” The evidence is the “Green New Deal,” which CNNdescribes as a “…10-year ‘economic mobilization’ that would phase out fossil fuel use and overhaul the nation’s infrastructure while building whole new layers into the…

The state of what union? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Eloquence is not a characteristic associated with President Donald Trump, but in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president not only rose to the occasion, he also delivered a message that was beautifully crafted by his speechwriters, a speech devoid of much of…

Slaughter of the innocents reaches new depths By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The uproar over New York State’s Reproductive Health Act, which “strips abortions from the penal code” and allows late-term abortions performed by “health-care practitioners” when the “patient is within 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal…

What became of country before party? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One of the few advantages of changing addresses is that you sometimes discover long-forgotten items. In a recent move, I found an old recording that contained an interview of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield(D-MT) by Paul Dukefor NBC’s “Today” show. The year was 1968. Richard…

Cave vs. wall By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The first thing that needs to be said about President Trump’s decision to sign a measure re-opening part of the federal government without getting money for the wall he demanded is that his experience as a New York businessman was no help. Perhaps he failed to…

Going gaga over the ladies By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The major media have gone gaga over the number of women newly elected to Congress and those announcing their run for the White House in 2020, with more female candidates likely to follow suit. But media’s bias — one of many — is revealed…

Trump’s State of the Union options By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given President Trump an opportunity to change the dynamic of the State of the Union address, an event that has become predictable and often boring. It has featured members of Congress popping up and down like whack-a-moles, interrupting the…

Now playing in Puerto Rico By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “He who excuses himself, accuses himself.” — Puerto Rican proverb More than 109 lobbyists and 39 Democrat Members of Congress attended a “winter retreat” last weekend in Puerto Rico, ostensibly to help raise funds for damage caused by hurricane Maria in 2017, reports Fox News.…