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By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The contrast between President Biden’s first address to Congress last Wednesday night and the Republican response delivered by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reminded me of another occasion between one long-winded and another profound speaker. It was 1863 and the nationally known orator Edward Everett was the featured speaker in…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 7, 2020 PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THINKING ABOUT ELIMINATING THE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE AND FOCUSING MORE ON THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY. THE MAJOR PLAYERS – DR. FAUCI, DR. BIRX AND VICE PRESIDENT PENCE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS FAMILIAR AND UNFAMILIAR TO THE PUBLIC, WILL STILL PERFORM THEIR DUTIES. THEY JUST WON’T BE…
Read MoreCOVID-19 not the only threat from China By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent demise of the Soviet Union two years later lulled the West into a false sense of security. Many appeared to believe that an age of unending peace and prosperity had been…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 6, 2020 ARE YOU TIRED OF HEARING ALL THE DIRE PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE COVID-19 VIRUS? I KNOW I AM. SOME NETWORKS ARE SEEING RATINGS DECLINE AND ARE GOING BACK TO WHAT THEY CALL REGULAR PROGRAMMING. HERE’S SOME PERSPECTIVE. THE AVERAGE DAILY DEATH TOLL FROM THE VIRUS IN THE…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 27, 2020 THE HEADLINE ON A COLUMN WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BY TIMOTHY EGAN SAYS: “HOW REPUBLICANS BECAME THE PARTY OF DEATH.” THAT IS RICH IRONY CONSIDERING THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE BACKED ABORTION ON DEMAND SINCE 1973 AND MANY EVEN OPPOSED THE “BORN ALIVE ACT” THAT WOULD HAVE…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 21, 2020 CHERYL CHUMLEY IS THE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES, ONE OF THE NEWSPAPERS THAT CARRIES MY COLUMN. SHE WRITES: “Communist-minded community organizer Saul Alinsky, in his prologue to “Rules for Radicals,” explained that the most effective activists were those who worked within the established “system,” not against it,…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 20, 2020 WHEN IT COMES TO RE-OPENING THE ECONOMY AND THE COUNTRY AFTER THE UNPRECEDENTED SHUTDOWN, ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RIGHTLY LEAVING IT UP TO INDIVIDUAL GOVERNORS TO MAKE THE DECISIONS FOR THEIR STATES AND LOCALITIES. DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS, LEAD BY SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI,…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY APRIL 3, 2020 JUST TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS TO GO, BEFORE WHAT? IT’S THE LATEST DEADLINE ESTABLISHED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR POSSIBLY – POSSIBLY – RE-OPENING THE COUNTRY FOR BUSINESS. CAN WE WAIT THAT LONG AND WHAT IF THEY EXTEND THE LOCKDOWN FOR ANOTHER MONTH? PRESIDENT TRUMP IS EVEN TALKING ABOUT A…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MARCH 31, 2020 SOME PEOPLE, LIKE PRIZE FIGHTERS, STAY TOO LONG ON THE SCENE WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE RETIRED LONG AGO. BEST EXAMPLE? THE 80-YEAR-OLD SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, NANCY PELOSI. PELOSI CLAIMS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY OF THE DEATHS FROM CORONAVIRUS BECAUSE HE DIDN’T ACT FAST ENOUGH.…
Read MoreCAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MARCH 30, 2020 ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF ANOTHER GREAT AWAKENING BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS? THAT’S AN ARGUMENT MADE RECENTLY IN THE OPINION PAGES OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BY ROBERT NICHOLOLSON, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILOS PROJECT. NICHOLSON WRITES THAT AMERICA HAS NEARLY FORGOTTEN THE SACRIFICES AND DEPRIVATIONS…
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