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Will Democrats tax your retirement savings? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The late bank robber Willie “The Actor” Suttonis said to have been asked by a reporter why he robbed banks, to which he supposedly replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” In his autobiography, Sutton denied the quote, but it serves as a warning…

Unequal justice By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One doesn’t have to be a cynic to be cynical about the Justice Department’s decision not to hold former FBI Director James Comey accountable for what an Inspector General report called his violation of FBI policies and his setting a “dangerous example” in order to “achieve a…

They’ve lost their minds in San Francisco By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency San Francisco, a city described in song for its natural beauty, is descending into an abyss of homelessness, the use of sidewalks as toilets and a place you might not want to visit, much less live. The latest, but surely not the…

You didn’t build that II By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In context, the president was trying to make the point that in addition to our own hard work, others contributed to whatever…

How to keep Aretha’s music playing By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency What does a white boy from the white suburbs of Washington, D.C., have to say about the passing of soul singer Aretha Franklin? At 16, I was a DJ on a local radio station, playing the rock ‘n’ roll and doo-wop recordings of…

Trump: Vote for me, or else By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida governor Jeb Bushsaid to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.” Never mind. The question for next year’s election is whether the insulter-in-chief can use the same…

Socialism never? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency President Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism. We may not be at the stage Bernie Sanders would advocate, but more millennials appear to favor a…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY AUGUST 16, 2019          A NEW FOX NEWS POLL MIGHT SPELL EARLY TROUBLE FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. HIS DISAPPROVAL RATING HAS JUMPED TO 56 PERCENT, ONLY ONE POINT SHY OF THE RECORD HIGH IN FOX POLLING. THAT’S A FIVE-POINT INCREASE FROM LAST MONTH. THOSE MASS SHOOTINGS AND HIS RESPONSE TO THEM ARE BELIEVED…

None dare call it ‘conspiracy’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, investigators discovered that the lone man assigned to guard the president, John Parker, had abandoned his post to watch the play from an adjacent box at Ford’s Theater. Worse, at intermission, Parker adjourned to a nearby saloon to have…

Fixing Baltimore: A plan By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has urged President Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to stop exchanging insults over conditions in Baltimore. Haley scoldedTrump for his recent tweet that appeared to mock Rep. Cummings for an attempted break-in at the congressman’s Baltimore…