Cal Thomas Commentary Archives

You’ve heard about the invasion of privacy over passports, haven’t you? The three presidential candidates had their passport records examined by...

The indictment of the mayor of Detroit and his top aide on twelve counts of obstruction of justice, misconduct in office, perjury and conspiracy is...

People are pouring through more than 11,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s public schedule for her eight years as first lady. Judicial watch had filed...

When Barack Obama speaks of the history of race, slavery and oppression in America, he touches a chord in all of us. But that is the past.

The media are full of stories about the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. They have been largely AWOL on the progress made by the surge in Iraq.

Did you know there is a happiness gap? Yes, researchers with nothing better to do have discovered that men are generally happier than women. How...

I hope you got to see General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker Monday as they testified before Congress. I also hope you heard the...

The state of Virginia is considering whether to build special detention centers to hold illegal immigrants until the federal government can deport...

Well, we’ve heard him, the tiny dictator of Iran speaking at Columbia University and the United Nations. Was anyone in doubt as to his views? He...

Remember the Moveon.org ad in the New York Times slandering General David Petraeus? The Times claimed the discount it gave on its ad rate was...

For the first time since at least World War II, women and men who married in the late 1970’s had a less than even chance of still being married 25...

Yesterday I had breakfast with Newt Gingrich. He knows government is broken and bureaucracy can’t fix it. He has a list of ideas what will fix it –...

President Bush has nominated Michael Mukasey as the next attorney general of the United States. Mukasey is well qualified for the post. He takes a...

Senator and democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is out with her new health care plan. She wants every American to have health...

The Amish community school in Pennsylvania that lost five girls in a schoolhouse shooting last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman.