Cal Thomas
Columns by Cal Thomas
The government stokes debt trend by funding foolish projects
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 in 2008 by $280 billion." Published June 12, 2019
Why Trump critics ought to spend more time in Sunday School
Only the most partisan person would begrudge prayers for the president of the United States, but a recent visit by President Trump to the mega McLean Bible Church in Virginia has rubbed some congregants the wrong way. Published June 10, 2019
D-Day’s ‘forgotten’ woman
Observances of the 75th anniversary of D-Day are properly focusing on the troops and the architect of Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who freed Europe from Hitler and his Nazi hordes. Published June 5, 2019
Robert Mueller’s upside-down justice
It's a familiar quote from 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.'" Published June 3, 2019
Democratic presidential candidates and economists refuse to give Trump credit for a booming economy
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." Published May 29, 2019
Once a terrorist always a terrorist
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the release of self-admitted "American Taliban" member John Walker Lindh "unexplainable and unconscionable." Published May 27, 2019
Reducing the debt and reforming entitlements is simple, but not for members of Congress
Among the many things that frustrate Americans about Washington, D.C., is the unwillingness — not inability, but unwillingness — to solve problems. Published May 22, 2019
Conservative states are enacting law and momentum is building in a pro-life direction
Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand — including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect babies born alive after failed procedures — the pro-life movement has achieved few legislative victories. Published May 20, 2019
My sentimental journey with Doris Day
It was Oscar Levant who uttered the famous line: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." Published May 15, 2019
Joe Biden, other Democratic candidates would likely raise taxes, re-impose regulations on businesses
Joe Biden, the leading Democrat in the overcrowded presidential sweepstakes (there are more of them running than horses in the recent Kentucky Derby), appears to want to take America back to the days of the Obama administration, which he was a part of for eight years. What would that look like? Published May 13, 2019
A solution to college debt
Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in 2007 in an attempt to attract people into professions like teaching, nursing and public-interest law. Published May 8, 2019
David McCullough details the sacrifices of those who expanded the boundaries of America
In a country preoccupied with presidential candidates preaching extreme liberalism and even unabashed socialism comes America's greatest living historian, David McCullough, with a new and needed book. Published May 6, 2019
There are subtle jabs at Israel, the Jewish people in The New York Times
It took a few days, but The New York Times finally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind President Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dog resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dog wore a Star of David around its neck. Published May 1, 2019
Trump and his temperament won’t matter to voters who have jobs they didn’t have during the Obama era
How long can Democrats continue to claim the roaring economy should be credited to the Obama administration? How many, except the self-deluded, actually believe this? Published April 29, 2019
In defense of Kate Smith
The long arm of the PC police has reached back to the '30s and arrested, prosecuted and sentenced the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who popularized Irving Berlin's song "God Bless America" and was a female pioneer in early television, recorded songs that today in hindsight are viewed as racist. Published April 24, 2019
Bad behavior and disobeyed presidential orders are not impeachable offenses
Objectivity, like Elvis, long ago left the building in Washington and so the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is being read and interpreted through mostly biased eyes. Published April 22, 2019
The exception that is Costa Rica
In the ongoing U.S. debate about immigration, the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala are mainly in the news because many of those crossing our border from Mexico are from these nations. Why isn't Costa Rica experiencing a similar mass exodus? Published April 17, 2019
Modern sanctuary cities have nothing to do with their original intent
In the category of Mad magazine's "scenes we'd like to see," comes President Trump's threat to transport migrants to cities and states that have declared themselves sanctuaries. Apparently he thinks such a move would force Democrats in Congress who represent these places to vote to fund the wall along our southern border. Published April 15, 2019
Trump names Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for what it is, a terrorist organization
President Trump has designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). It's about time. Other administrations might have done it, but didn't. Published April 10, 2019
Democrats have been trying to win over evangelicals, but a socialist creed won’t get it done
For the last 27 years, Democrats have been trying to win over evangelical Christians who last voted in large numbers for their party's presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, in 1976. Published April 8, 2019
