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CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 1, 2025     A NEW YEAR IS WHEN PROGNOSTICATORS ARE BUSY TELLING US WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS. EXCEPT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEIR PREVIOUS FORECASTS, THEY HAVE BEEN MOSTLY WRONG.     NO ONE PREDICTED PRESIDENT BIDEN WOULD WITHDRAW, THAT KAMALA HARRIS WOULD REPLACE HIM AS THE DEMOCRATS’ PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, OR THAT…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 31, 2024      MUCH AS BEEN SAID ABOUT JIMMY CARTER, WHO DIED SUNDAY AT AGE 100. I WANT TO FOCUS ON HIS FAITH. WHEN CARTER ANNOUNCED IN 1976 HE HAD BEEN BORN AGAIN, JOURNALISTS DIDN’T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. JOHN CHANCELLOR SAID ON NBC NEWS “WE’VE LOOKED UP BORN…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 30,2024      VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS ARE TOTALING UP THE TOP STORIES OF THIS YEAR, BUT THERE ARE ONLY TWO. ONE IS THE INCREDIBLE COMEBACK OF DONALD TRUMP TO THE PRESIDENCY. THE OTHER IS THE COVER-UP OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S MENTAL AND PHSYICAL DECLINE.      MOST POLITICIANS LIE AT SOME POINT IN THEIR…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 27, 2024      IN JUST A LITTLE MORE THAN THREE WEEKS, DONALD TRUMP WILL AGAIN BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IT HAS BEEN A REMARKABLE COMEBACK, MORE THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.      THE KNIVES HAVE BEEN OUT FOR HIM SINCE THE ELECTION AS THEY WERE AFTER THE TWO…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARYDECEMBER 26, 2024      POPE FRANCIS DELIVERED A CHRISTMAS DAY ADDRESS IN WHICH HE CALLED FOR WORLD PEACE.      HE SAID: “MAY THE SOUND OF ARMS BE SILENCED IN WAR-TORN UKRAINE. MAY THERE BE THE BOLDNESS TO OPEN THE DOOR TO NEGOTIATION AND TO GESTURES OF DIALOGUE AND ENCOUNTER, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 25, 2024      I HAVE A QUESTION AND ALSO AN ANSWER. WHY IS IT THAT WE FOCUS ON THEN BIRTH AND LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST ONLY ONE DAY OF THE YEAR? ANSWER: BECAUSE SATAN IS THE GREAT DISTRACTOR. HE DISTRACTS US WITH OTHER THINGS – SPORTS AND ESPECIALLY POLITICS – THE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 23, 2024      IT PAINS ME TO WRITE ABOUT THE OUTRAGEOUS THING CONGRESS HAS ONCE AGAIN DONE TO US. I AM RECORDING THIS ON FRIDAY SO THINGS MAY HAVE CHANGED BY TODAY, BUT THE THREATENED GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN OVER A SPENDING BILL FITS THE DEFINITION OF EXTORTION: “the crime of obtaining money…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 20, 2024      CONGRESS CALLS IT A CONTINUING RESOLUTION, OR IN WASHINGTON JARGON A “CR.” THE HOUSE BILL THAT SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON HAS EFFECTIVELY PULLED FROM THE FLOOR IS NOTHING OF THE KIND. IT IS CONTINUED SPENDING OF MONEY WE DON’T HAVE, ADDING MORE TO THE UNSUSTAINABLE $36 TRILLION DEBT. PERHAPS…

CAL THOMAS CMMENTARY DECEMBER 19, 2024 MORE INFORMATION IS COMING OUT FROM THAT SHOOTING AT A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN MADISON, WISCONSIN. 15-YEAR-OLD NATALIE RUPNOW, WHO POLICE SAY KILLED TWO PEOPLE AND WOUNDED SIX OTHERS BEFORE KILLING HERSELF, HAD A TROUBLED HOME LIFE. ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS, RUPNOW’S PARENTS WERE MARRIED AND DIVORCED MULTIPLE TIMES. SHE…

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 18, 2024      A 15-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AT ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN MADISON, WISCONSIN ON MONDAY KILLED A FELLOW STUDENT, A TEACHER AND INJURED SIX OTHERS. SOME ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE SHOOTER, WHO DIED IN AN AMBULANCE ON THE WAY TO A HOSPITAL, WAS IDENTIFEID AS NATALIE RUPNOW, WHO WENT…