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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…

Mass murders are a symptom By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Politicians and pundits are promoting familiar explanations, excuses and demands following the tragic mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. From more gun laws, to blaming President Trump, conservative talk radio and Fox News, we’ve heard it all before. A manifesto thought…

Smelling rats in Baltimore By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Calling someone “racist” has become the default position for liberal politicians and certain members of the media who wish to deflect attention from real problems. President Trump has (again) been called a racist for having the temerity to note that House Government Oversight Committee Chairman…

What’s next for Democrats post-Mueller? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The Washington Post, which has done everything in its dwindling power with articles, editorials and columns denouncing, demeaning and attempting to destroy President Trump, appears to have temporarily — but only temporarily — raised the white flag. A headline following former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s…

The Founders and national debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The Founders of the United States of America warned against massive federal debt, but, to our detriment, their political descendants are not paying attention. The Founders speak to us from their graves to condemn and warn of the consequences now that President Trump and…

End immigration to mend it By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency For safety reasons, fire marshals control the number of people who can occupy a building at any one time. We’ve seen what happens when crowds get too large and a fire breaks out, causing panic and often death. So why not control the crowd…