Cal Thomas Commentary Archives

Here is what I think about General David Petraeus and his appearance before several congressional committees. I wish the general had asked his...

I wonder if the mainstream media will spend as much time on the Hillary Clinton fundraiser, Norman Hsu, as they did on Larry Craig?

Much of the media and a lot of people are telling us we are tired of this war. Our enemies aren’t. They’re just getting warmed up. They are...

Two-thirds of American adults admit to being ignorant about political issues outside the United States. Only one-third claim to be well-versed in...

What do you do if you have been a big-time fundraiser for Democrats and especially Hillary Clinton and it is discovered you are a fugitive from...

I hate to keep harping on the subject of terrorism, but our enemies do. Three suspected Islamic terrorists have been arrested in germany for...

Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson will announce on Jay Leno’s show tonight he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President.

President Bush paid a surprise Labor Day visit to Iraq to see for himself what effect the surge in American troops is having.

The media have a double standard when it comes to sexual behavior. In the matter of Senator Larry Craig of Idaho, they treat his actions as a...

I’m surprised this story took so long to come to public attention. I’m even more surprised that a United States Senator – especially a republican –...

President bush’s speech last week to the Veterans of Foreign Wars continues to reverberate in the media and blogosphere.

Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies; no sucking black holes;...

It’s Diana week in the UK. The media are full of the unending soap opera.

A record number of British citizens are leaving because of crime, illegal and legal immigration, fears of terrorism and a bad health system.

Vietnam is the liberals’ holy grail. It is the comparison they use for the futility of foreign adventures. But Vietnam is liberalism’s loss and the...