Cal Thomas
Columns by Cal Thomas
30 years of ‘global warming’ panic
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the "global warming" (now known as "climate change") panic. Published June 27, 2018
A restaurant’s expulsion of Sarah Sanders is pure ideology
As a longtime resident of Virginia, I am well aware of its sordid history when it comes to slavery, racism and discrimination. I can still remember "colored only" restrooms, water fountains, poll taxes and African Americans forced to ride in the back of the bus. Virginia public schools in the 1950s were mostly segregated, as they had been since first established in 1870. Published June 25, 2018
Democrats, whose policies contributed to the separation of kids, seem to be overwhelmed with empathy
Need proof that the current controversy over children of undocumented immigrants is more political than humanitarian? Hillary Clinton said she was "adamantly against illegal immigrants" and supported a border wall until she ran for president in 2016. Published June 20, 2018
It’s hard to believe that the FBI’s political bias wasn’t working against Trump
Would you consider a jihadist biased against Jews? Could a member of a white supremacist group be accused of bias against non-whites? Published June 18, 2018
A tribute to Charles Krauthammer
I have often thought that tributes to those we love are best made when the object of our affection is still with us, rather than at their funerals. Published June 13, 2018
Lessons for the Trump-Kim summit
The unprecedented, historic and weird summit (Dennis Rodman might be there) between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un, scheduled to begin Tuesday, if there are no surprises, could produce the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, or just more of the same lies and dissembling from North Korea we have seen before. Published June 11, 2018
How the Colorado Human Rights Commission tried to punish people of faith
Nothing appears beyond the reach of the social engineers, not even cake. Published June 6, 2018
Different standards for the left
We've come a long way from harmless playground jibes like "your mother wears combat boots," to those of today from the likes of Samantha Bee and other leftist "entertainers" who say things about President Trump and his family that are so vulgar they can't be printed in a newspaper or quoted on television. Published June 4, 2018
Ireland votes to play God
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an "endowed unalienable" right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists. Published May 30, 2018
NFL teams must also end the harassment of their cheerleaders
It took two years, boycotts by fans, declining TV ratings, growing alarm among advertisers, a drop in the sale of gear and especially a public shaming by President Trump, but the owners of NFL teams have finally decided their players will not be allowed to kneel or make other protests during the playing of the national anthem. Published May 28, 2018
Gambling on sports is a bad bet
Human nature being what it is, it should come as no shock that the next level of approved gambling in America is sports betting. States already have casinos, the lottery and other ways of separating money from the weak for their ravenous and bottomless coffers, so why not allow betting on sports contests? Published May 23, 2018
GOP cringes at spending cuts
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he could not have foreseen today's Republican Party. Published May 21, 2018
The coarsening of political language
Here in Australia, "Question Time" has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in an effort to belittle those policies. Published May 16, 2018
The bitterness tour
When you hear "world tour" you usually think of superstars performing concerts in various cities for adoring fans. Not so with the presidentially deprived, entitlement-driven Hillary Clinton. Published May 14, 2018
Despite what John Kerry may think, he’s no longer in the game
Following the 2016 election, President Obama rightly warned the Trump transition team "we only have one president at a time." It was a reminder that there can be just one person articulating American foreign policy so world leaders will have no doubt as to the United States' intentions. Published May 9, 2018
The exhaustion factor
The "wall of protection" conservative media has erected around President Trump may be crumbling. Published May 7, 2018
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the entertainment hit a new low
To be vulgar once earned societal disapproval, ostracism from polite company and — in my grandmother's era — put a young person in danger of having his mouth washed out with soap. Published May 2, 2018
Learning from North Korea’s history
Before meeting with North Korea's very "honorable" (Donald Trump's words) dictator, Kim Jong-un, the president should bone up on the history of that country's duplicity and deception, including ways it has used the wishful thinking of some past U.S. presidents to achieve its objectives. Published April 30, 2018
‘Crazy Bernie’ is at it again
There he goes again. Despite the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years, including declining rates for minorities, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, affectionately called "crazy Bernie" by some conservative talk show hosts, is again flirting with the idea that the federal government should guarantee every American a job, paying a minimum of $15 an hour and health care benefits. Published April 25, 2018
To follow Jesus, or to follow Trump
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other." Published April 23, 2018
