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NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse i n the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left – May 28, 1970. He served at the hospital for two years where he treated wounded American soldiers and saw many die. He says while he was initially...Read more

CAM RANH, Vietnam – The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script.

Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha – known to ...Read more

Six months after their disastrous performance in last November’s election, The New York Times reports the Democratic Party is “still searching for the path forward.”

Democrats have hired consultants, one of whom asked voters what animal would they ...Read more

After many years living in and covering Washington, there is one overriding principle I have learned: If you don’t trust politicians you will never be disappointed.

President Trump and the House Republican leadership promised that what Trump called “politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3729538">Read more

The beginning of summer offers a columnist the opportunity to address subjects he might avoid the rest of the year because of his focus on domestic and foreign issues.

Inattention to proper English seems to be a subject that few are bothering to address. I have been making a list of misused words that in the past might have labeled a person ...Read more

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon to be engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week, I recalled the opening line to a song from the old off-Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” – “You ...Read more

Those who lived through the Watergate scandal in the’70s with its associated names and labels, including President Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the plumbers, non-denial denials, press secretary Ron Ziegler, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the tapes, Judge John Sirica, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, John Dean and the cover-up, ...Read more

The massive cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline, which is only now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds me of a similar event more than a century ago.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, ...Read more

Is there anyone who thinks prescription drug prices in America are about right?

President Trump has elevated an issue Democrats have been jawboning about for years. On Monday the president issued an Executive Order (EO) he says will decrease the cost of drugs in America and lead to increased transparency about how pharmaceutical companies set ...Read more

Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in “Coriolanus” and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3705965">Read more

Back in the day of telephone books, the Washington, D.C., Yellow Pages contained more than a dozen pages of “associations,” a code word for lobbyists. They included associations for tort reform, one for buses and even an association for snack food.

I don’t recall an ...Read more

Last week, President Trump announced the establishment of a White House Faith Office. Its purpose, as described in a White House announcement, is to “…empower faith-based entities, community organizations, and houses of worship to better serve families and communities.” Don’t they already have access to a higher power?

There is no ...Read more

Last Sunday I was a panelist on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream. My friend and colleague Juan Williams brought up the continuing high price of eggs as part of his criticism of President Trump’s first 100 days in his second term. While wholesale egg prices are coming down, I said only half-jokingly “let people eat oatmeal.”

The ...Read more

“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth." (Genesis 1:28)

President Trump is going God one better. God told Adam and Eve to start having children. The president is considering adding an incentive – paying couples politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3689985">Read more

Before basketball’s 24-second rule, there was a tactic called freezing the ball. The team that was ahead would attempt to run out the clock by holding onto the ball as long as it could to deny the opposing team an opportunity to score.

That looks like what Iran is again doing – “freezing” negotiations while finishing the final stages of...Read more

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative.

Such has been the case of politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3680880">Read more

Better buy your “Forever” stamps now, because the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced another price increase. On July 13, the cost of a first- class stamp is scheduled to rise from 73 cents to politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3676771">Read more

America’s annual rituals and observances include days we usually celebrate together (July Fourth, Memorial Day, Veterans Day), or as members of special groups (Passover, Easter and Christmas).

The one annual ritual it can be safely said most Americans despise is April 15, when the politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3673917">Read more

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them … well, I have others.”– Groucho Marx

Guess who said this: “China takes total advantage of the United States. They steal our intellectual property using cyber theft. Not only do they steal our ...Read more