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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…

Hungary’s sound immigration policy By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Two summers ago on a visit to Budapest, I asked the spokesman for the Hungarian government about the growing problem of migrants coming into Europe. He told me Hungary doesn’t have a migrant problem because they don’t have welfare programs. So, he said, migrants continue…

Not a ‘total loser’ By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vermont — Rep. Justin Amash has left the Republican Party and will now represent Michigan’s third congressional district as an Independent. In a Washington Postop-ed, he wrote: “I’ve become disenchanted with party politics and frightened by what I see from it. The two-party system…

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…

Questions I would have asked the Democrats By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The likelihood I would ever be invited to serve on a network panel questioning the Democratic presidential candidates is equivalent to an invitation to take the next trip to the moon. Still, as I tortured myself watching the two “debates,” which were…

Bribing the Palestinians won’t work By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The Trump administration thinks appealing to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un by dangling promises of prosperity in front of him if he agrees to change his ways is the path to peace on the Korean Peninsula. So far there have been no agreements to…

Sulzberger is right (and wrong) By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency I never thought I would write this, but the publisher of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, is right. Sulzberger wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journalin response to President Trump’s claim that his newspaper committed “treason” by publishing a story about U.S. efforts…

Must we wage war with Iran? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “The Pentagon has released new color photos as proof that Iran was behind last week’s attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman,” ABC Newsreported. Hours before that attack, Iranians launchedsurface-to-air missile at a U.S. drone monitoring the tankers. The missile missed. In…