Cal Thomas Commentary Archives

Probably the worst time for any president of either party to try something new or radical is in his last year in office. But President Bush has...

The French can be exasperating or exhilarating. They exhilarated a lot of people when they elected Nicholas Sarkozy as president and he promptly...

Did you hear about the “Compassion Summit” held at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama came....

The title of Barack Obama’s best selling book is “The Audacity of Hope.” He got the audacity part right.

The Commerce Department has decided to rely mostly on pen and paper for the 2010 census. It has hoped to use new electronic hand-held computers...

Federal employees used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling iPods, internet dating services and a $13,000 steak and liquor dinner,...

There’s a lot of money in being President of the United States if you are prepared to sellout. That seems to be what Hillary and Bill Clinton have...

Watching and reading the testimony of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker reminds us of the top quality leadership this country...

Opponents of the war, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have fired warning shots that the two had better not gloss over recent outbreaks of fight in...

What do you know… democrats and republicans in the Senate are working together on a bipartisan bill to solve the mortgage problem that has put...

Forty years ago tomorrow, Martin Luther King, Jr. Was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.

Like some mafia dons hauled before a congressional racketeering committee came the heads of the five largest American oil companies. This happens...

A mass grave containing the bodies of more than fifty people killed by al Qaeda has been found in Iraq. The dead are thought to have been victims...

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck a blow for American law. In a 6-3 decision with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the majority, the court...

In an unpredictable political year, here is something else I did not expect.