 The Cal Thomas Commentary is brought to you by Values Through Media. Now here's syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas. In accepting his party's nomination for president last Thursday night, Donald Trump might have benefited from Shakespeare's line in Hamlet, brevity is the soul of wit. The first 30 minutes of his too long 93-minute address were riveting. He described what it was like to be shot in the ear. He said if the bullet had been just a little more to the right, he would not be there, but dead.