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Lessons for the Trump-Kim summit By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The unprecedented, historic and weird summit (Dennis Rodman might be there) between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, scheduled to begin Tuesday (today), if there are no surprises, could produce the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, or just more of the same…
Different standards for the left By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency We’ve come a long way from harmless playground jibes like “your mother wears combat boots,” to those of today from the likes of Samantha Bee and other leftist “entertainers” who say things about President Trump and his family that are so vulgar they can’t…
CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 30, 2018 THERE IS A DEBATE AMONG SOME EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. THOSE WHO TAKE A “LET THEM ALL IN” APPROACH CITE VERSES ABOUT NOT FORBIDDING THE STRANGER OR FOREIGNER TO COME AMONG US. THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE SAY ALL OF THIS IS A PLOY BY…
Ireland makes its decision on abortion By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no…
Gambling on sports is a bad bet By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “I am shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here.” — Captain Renault, “Casablanca” Human nature being what it is it should come as no shock that the next level of approved gambling in America is sports betting. States…
The coarsening of political language By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency CANBERRA, Australia — Here in Australia, “Question Time” has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions…
The bitterness tour By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency MELBOURNE, Australia — When you hear “world tour” you usually think of superstars performing concerts in various cities for adoring fans. Not so with the presidentially deprived, entitlement-driven Hillary Clinton. Last week, Hillary Clinton came to Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, and to Sydney, its largest,…
The coarsening of political language By Cal ThomasTribune Content Agency CANBERRA, Australia — Here in Australia, “Question Time” has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in…
One at a time By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Following the 2016 election, President Obama rightly warned the Trump transition team “we only have one president at a time.” It was a reminder that there can be just one person articulating American foreign policy so world leaders will have no doubt as to the United States’…
The vulgar goes mainstream By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency To be vulgar once earned societal disapproval, ostracism from polite company and — in my grandmother’s era — put a young person in danger of having his mouth washed out with soap. Today, vulgarities are now mainstream. People speaking in a way that “would make…