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Cal Thomas: Lebanon then and now
The year was 1982. I was in Israel when the IDF crossed the Northern border to root out terrorist sanctuaries in southern Lebanon. The government of Prime Minister ...Read more
Cal Thomas: VP Harris visits the ‘BINO’
Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit last Friday to a border region in Arizona takes political cynicism to a new low. It is like hoping to score political points by visiting the relative of someone who has been murdered by a man...Read more
Cal Thomas: Virtue vs. utility
Among the questions I am most often asked by people who don’t like the two presidential candidates: “How did we get to this point where I can’t enthusiastically vote for either one?”
What may be a partial answer comes from an essay by Daniel McCarthy, editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
In the summer 2024 issue, McCarthy ...Read more
Cal Thomas: Kamala Harris owes us some answers
It’s been more than two months since Vice President Kamala Harris was deeded the Democratic presidential nomination. During that time, she has not held a news conference or sat with many mainstream journalists to answer serious questions about how she would lead the country and who she would choose as her advisers. On Saturday, riding high on ...Read more
Cal Thomas: Words and deeds
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Socialized Medicine Has Consequences!
The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has commented on a report he commissioned that found the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is in a deplorable condition. The report’s findings echoed media investigations of the past which discovered unacceptably long waits for ...Read more
And the Winner Was… It Was a Draw!
You could see where this was headed from the start when debate co-host David Muir asked Vice President Kamala Harris the question Ronald Reagan asked Americans to ponder when he debated Jimmy Carter in October 1980: “Are you better off ...Read more
Cal Thomas: The Harris-Trump debate
As the disastrous (for Biden) Trump-Biden debate June 27 did not include any of my recommended questions, I offer ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis some questions they might consider asking Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s face-off.
For Harris: Some Republicans, including your opponent, have accused you of ...Read more
Cal Thomas: It’s not Bibi’s fault
President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to win the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas.
As the saying goes “with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
In his first statement since the recovery of six hostages murdered by Hamas, including American-Israeli ...Read more
Time to Start Doing Interviews
CNN has won the “privilege” of conducting the first interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz on Thursday night, beating the promised “end of the month” deadline she had set.
The Harris team had reportedly been “shopping” networks to assess what they believe would be the most favorable one to her. CNN now...Read more
Kamala Harris: A Blank Slate
“I could be whatever you want. you just tell me what you want and I'm gonna be that for you.” ― Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week, Vice President Kamala Harris seemed ...Read more
Cal Thomas: Reagan: The movie
The producers didn’t plan for the biopic about the life of Ronald Reagan to open so close to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but delays caused by the pandemic and an actors strike led to its release on August 30.
It seems easier to portray a historical figure that no one currently living remembers. In the case of the challenge ...Read more
San Francisco Plus 40
The first Democratic National Convention I attended was in San Francisco in 1984. UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick indelibly labeled attendees “San Francisco Democrats,” because of their left-leaning policies.
Forty years later it appears little has changed. Then, Vice President Walter Mondale, who was nominated to take another crack at the ...Read more
Back to (Chaotic) Schools
In normal years, which were not that long ago, students would look forward to returning to or entering college as freshmen. After violent anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstrations on some college campuses, many fear this semester might see a repeat of the prior ugliness.
This is how bad it has gotten. Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are...Read more
Informing Low-Information Voters
Bring back Jay Leno! The former host of the“ Tonight Show” had a segment called “ Jaywalking” during which he would ask people on the street easy questions they often couldn’t answer.
Leno : “If someone says they are going to Great Britain what language do they speak when ...Read more
Donald: Do the Debate
There is no downside for Donald Trump debating Vice President Kamala Harris next month on ABC News. Trump made the right decision to show up at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago last week (Harris didn’t appear, due to a scheduling conflict), though he squandered an opportunity to win over not just those in the...Read more
The Secret Service Makes Me Nervous
In 1962, composer Irving Berlin debuted his final musical, “Mr. President.” The show has a silly little song that contains the lyric "the Secret Service makes me nervous."
I thought of that song after the real Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald Trump at a rally three ...Read more
Kamala Harris and the ‘Fashy Thing’
In the film “Men in Black,” a pen-like device causes people to forget everything they have seen and heard. Actor Will Smith calls it a “flashy thing.”
It appears the media and Democrats are metaphorically using a similar device, hoping voters will forget everything Vice President Kamala Harris has said and done in the past – even the ...Read more
Telling the Truth About Gaza and Israel
Last week one of the world’s great orators came to Washington and delivered an address to Congress that was so powerful and so true that a number of Democrat progressives politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3348815">Read more
The CrowdStrike Warning
“A defective update to an obscure piece of security software knocked out security systems around the globe Friday, causing widespread disruptions to travel, medical care and businesses of all stripes while revealing in stunning fashion the fragility of a world economy on shared technology.”
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