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The president’s personality By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Depending on the polls you read and how you read them, nearly half of those surveyed want the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump to continue. That is not the same as wanting him impeached, much less convicted by the Senate and removed from office, but…

A new insight into media bias By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Since America’s colonial days the press has been a target of those who believe journalists have a point of view that shapes their reporting. There have been numerous articles and studies revealing a journalistic predisposition to opinions and subjects that reinforce liberal points…

Trump channels George McGovern By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The year was 1972 and Americans wanted out of the Vietnam War; the right because it was not being won and the left because of the increasing body count and lies from generals and politicians about “progress” toward defeating the communists. Democratic presidential candidate George…

Democrats’ Twilight Zone By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency A 1961 “Twilight Zone” episode starred Peter Falk as a Central American revolutionary whose paranoia eventually leads to his destruction. The dictator he has deposed tells him about a mirror given to him by “an old woman,” a mirror that will show him who’s plotting to…

Ukraine: A political rerun By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Back when reruns were a staple of summer programming, television networks aired repeats of their programs, giving viewers another opportunity to see what they had already seen. Democratic politicians are now conducting their own version of reruns. The same bunch who brought us the failed…

Dealing with the Taliban devil By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency PARIS — President Trump was right to cancel a “secret” meetingwith leaders of the Taliban and the Afghan government following two bomb attacks by the terrorist group that killed 10 civilians, an American soldier and a Romanian service member in heavily fortified Kabul. The…

When government runs health care By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency DUBLIN — “When would you like to schedule your knee replacement surgery?” asked my American doctor before I left for Ireland? I gave him a date that works for me (I’m calling it the result of an old basketball injury, not advancing age). His…

Knowing it all at 16 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency How much credibility should we give to a 16-year-old when considering her qualifications to lecture adults about science and an end-of-the-world scenario? Greta Thunberg has been dubbed by the media as a “climate change activist” and a teen “eco-warrior.” She was at the United…

The Kavanaugh reboot By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When the Supreme Court, under a previous ideological majority, was handing down decisions favorable to the left, Democrats were fine with deferring to that third branch of government to achieve what they declined to produce in legislation. Some Democrats in conservative states took the position that…

Non-debate ‘debates’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency By definition, what 14 million viewers watched on TV last Thursday night was not a debate — not even close. Here’s how dictionary.com defines “debate”: “A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints … a formal contest in which the affirmative and negative sides…