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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…

America: Love it or leave it (again) By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The phrase “America, Love It or Leave It” has a pedigree dating back at least to the McCarthy Era. In the ‘70s, the phrase was employed again against those protesting America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The left has its own version, vowing…

Apollo 11 at 50 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we dubbed it), met many of the astronauts and reported on their exploits. Along with people…

Censoring the census By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The notion of history repeating itself is usually viewed as a negative statement, but some history is worth repeating because we might learn and be guided by it. In last week’s 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court rejecting the Trump administration’s claim that adding a question…