Articles by Cal Thomas

Hungary’s Unique Approach to Helping Migrants

Cal Thomas / July 11, 2019

Two summers ago on a visit to Budapest, I asked the spokesman for the Hungarian government about the growing problem of migrants coming into Europe…. Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Clinton Bought ‘Dirt’ From a Foreign Agent. Why No Media Outrage?

Cal Thomas / June 19, 2019

There was a time when calling someone a hypocrite could stain their reputation. No more. Like the overused and often misapplied word “racism,” hypocrisy has… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Pray for the President Even If You Didn’t Vote for Him

Cal Thomas / June 11, 2019

Only the most partisan person would begrudge prayers for the president of the United States, but a recent visit by President Donald Trump to the… Read More

SocietyCommentary

D-Day’s ‘Forgotten’ Woman

Cal Thomas / June 06, 2019

Observances of the 75th anniversary of D-Day are properly focusing on the troops and the architect of Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who freed… Read More

EconomyCommentary

No Credit Where Credit Is Due

Cal Thomas / May 30, 2019

The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Heritage’s ‘Blueprint for Balance’ Has Real Fixes for Our Spending Crisis

Cal Thomas / May 23, 2019

Among the many things that frustrate Americans about Washington, D.C., is the unwillingness—not inability, but unwillingness—to solve problems. One of many examples is the U.S…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Wind Is Shifting Behind the Pro-Life Cause

Cal Thomas / May 22, 2019

Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, I Had a Friendship With Doris Day

Cal Thomas / May 16, 2019

It was Oscar Levant who uttered the famous line: “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” In a way it was a backhanded… Read More

SocietyCommentary

‘The Pioneers’ Is a Rebuke to Our Entitlement Mentality

Cal Thomas / May 08, 2019

In a country preoccupied with presidential candidates preaching extreme liberalism and even unabashed socialism comes America’s greatest living historian, David McCullough, with a new and… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Signs of the Times

Cal Thomas / May 03, 2019

It took a few days, but The New York Times finally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon… Read More