Columns

For release: 07/18/24 What Trump should say Thursday night By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency When Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday night and accepts for the third time the Republican Party’s nomination for president, he faces an opportunity and a temptation. The temptation is to launch a full-bore attack on Democrats, President Biden, the…

For release: 07/16/24 Tone down the rhetoric By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better…

CAL THOMAS For release: 07/11/24 Project 2025 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One way to measure the power of conservative policy proposals is to monitor the reaction of the left. The Heritage Foundation’s ideas for the next conservative president to implement must be good because liberals are hysterical in their opposition. And that’s because…

For release: 07/11/24 Project 2025 By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency One way to measure the power of conservative policy proposals is to monitor the reaction of the left. The Heritage Foundation’s ideas for the next conservative president to implement must be good because liberals are hysterical in their opposition. And that’s because they directly…

For release: 07/09/24 The Biden cover-up By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Anyone hoping the interview of President Biden by George Stephanopoulos of ABC News would allay fears by growing numbers of Democrats that the president is not mentally fit to serve another four years must be disappointed. When asked repeatedly and in different ways…

For release: 07/04/24 Supreme court protects all presidents By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency Put aside former president Donald Trump (an impossible task for some) and examine the Supreme Court’s majority ruling that protects any president from litigation for decisions and actions he (or she, but for the sake of this column I will use…

For release: 07/02/24 Biden claims to know right from wrong By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency At a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, following his universally criticized debate performance, President Biden attempted to draw a distinction between himself and Donald Trump: “I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong.” Knowing right…

CAL THOMAS For release: 06/27/24 Supremes to rule on transgender law By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency As if current Supreme Court cases were not controversial enough, the justices have accepted an appeal by the Biden administration “seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care for minors.” Notice that the media only declare something “controversial”…

By Cal Thomas Released January 24, 2024 The debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump on CNN on Thursday night ought to be more than the rehearsed answers and sound bites we’ve heard before. Polls show Americans are alarmed over what many feel is our country’s unraveling in terms of the economy, uncontrolled immigration, the weakening of…

For release: 06/20/24 Who’s a ‘threat to democracy’? By Cal Thomas Tribune Content Agency People of a certain age will recall a time when after an election the losing side would usually accept the results and initially give support to a new president during what was then called the “honeymoon” stage. Richard Nixon conceded to…