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CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY FEBRUARY 4, 2024      LAST SATURDAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL CRITICAL OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DECISION TO IMPOSE TARIFFS ON CANADA, MEXICO AND CHINA.      IN THE RECENT PAST, TRUMP’S THREAT OF TARIFFS HAVE CAUSED SOME COUNTRIES TO DO HIS BIDDING. THAT IS NOT THE CASE THIS TIME, SO FAR.…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY FEBRUARY 3,2025      IF JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS WERE AN OLYMPIC SPORT THERE ARE SOME WHO WOULD WIN A GOLD MEDAL.      FOLLOWING THE HORRIFFIC COLLISION BETWEEN AN ARMY HELICOPTER AND AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER JET AT REAGAN AIRPORT LAST WEEK, MANY HAVE BEEN QUICK TO MAKE THE LEAP BEFORE INVESTIGATIONS HAD HARDLY…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 31, 2025      FLYING IS SAID TO BE THE SAFEST WAY TO TRAVEL. UNTIL IT ISN’T. WEDNESDAY NIGHT, A PSA COMMUTER JET OPERATED BY AMERICAN AIRLINES WAS HIT BY AN ARMY HELICOPTER AND CRASHED JUST SHY OF LANDING AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON. IT WAS JUST 400 FEET ABOVE THE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 30, 2025      PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS OFFERED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES A DEAL. HE WILL GIVE THEM EIGHT MONTHS PAY IF THEY LEAVE AND FIND OTHER JOBS. IT’S A CREATIVE PLAN, ONE THAT WILL HELP REDUCE THE SIZE AND COST OF GOVERNMENT. THE PRESIDENT SAYS FEDERAL EMPLOYEES CAN ALSO TAKE A CHANCE AND…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 29, 2025      IT’S WORKING. NOT ONLY ARE HARDENED CRIMINALS WHO ARE IN THE U.S. ILLEGALLY BEING DEPORTED FROM MAJOR CITIES, THE NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS TO CROSS THE SOUTHERN BORDER HAVE DECLINED TO A TRICKLE AND MADE THE JOB OF BORDER AGENTS EASIER.      HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE THE TRUMP BORDER POLICIES?…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 28, 2025      When President Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Columbia if President Gustavo Petro would not accept criminal migrants he wants to deport he did not get the initial response he hoped for. Instead of immediately caving to Trump, Petro issued a firey statement in which he called the…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 27, 2025     PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS PARDONED 23 PRO-LIFE DEMONSTRATORS WHO WERE CONVICTED OF SUCH MINOR THINGS AS STANDING AND PRAYING TOO CLOSE TO AN ABORTION CLINIC. THE PRESIDENT SAID “THEY SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED. MANY OF THEM ARE ELDERLY PEOPLE. THIS IS A GREAT HONOR TO SIGN (THEIR PARDONS).…

CAL THOMAS COMMEnTARY JANUARY 23, 2025     HAMAS IS AGAIN TAKING CONTROL OF GAZA AFTER ISRAEL AGREED TO A CEASFIRE AND THE EXCHANGE OF THREE HOSTAGES (SO FAR). ISRAEL MUST RELEASE HUNDREDS OF TERRORISTS, INCLUDING SOME WHO ARE SERVING LIFE SENTENCES. COUNT ON MOST RETURNING TO THE BATTLEFIED. THEY HAVE BEFORE.     HEZBOLLAH IS STILL…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 21, 2025     WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED THE “SECOND COMING” OF DONALD TRUMP WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST. IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS MONDAY, TRUMP WAS MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT AMERICA AND OUR FUTURE THAN HE WAS EIGHT YEARS AGO.     HE RE-STATED MANY OF HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES ABOUT CLOSING THE BORDER, DEPORTING…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 20, 2025      IT’S FINALLY HERE. INAUGURATION DAY 2025.      DEPENDING ON YOUR POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW, OUR FOUR-YEAR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS OVER, OR CHAOS IS ABOUT TO RESUME.      I’M HOPEFUL THE FORMER IS THE CASE.      POLLS SHOWED INCOMING PRESSIDENT DONALD TRUMP AT…