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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…

Deeper and deeper in debt By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency There are many addictions besides drugs, sex and power. There is also our increasing addiction to debt. According to Money Magazine, reporting on figures from the New York Fed, “Americans’ debt hit a new high of $13 trillion last year, surpassing the previous record set…

Praying (or not) for the president By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Only the most partisan person would begrudge prayers for the president of the United States, but a recent visitby President Trump to the mega McLean Bible Church in Virginia has rubbed some congregants the wrong way. The White House informed the church with only…

Robert Mueller’s upside-down justice By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency It’s a familiar quotefrom Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist,” but with special contemporary relevance in light of a statement last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: “‘If the law supposes that,’ said Mr. Bumble… ‘the law is a ass — a idiot.’” But it isn’t so…

NO CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It is even more amazing what has been accomplished with the…

Once a terrorist always a terrorist By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the release of self-admitted “American Taliban” member John Walker Lindh “unexplainable and unconscionable.” Lindh, who was paroledlast Thursday from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for illegally aiding Taliban forces.…