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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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Biden’s Withdrawal Doesn’t Mean Harris Automatically Succeeds Him!
What is amusing and simultaneously contributes to the cynicism some feel about politics is how many Democrats claimed until recently that President Biden was a different man in private than the mumbling, stumbling man everyone could hear and see in public. These include Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden apparently forgot to endorse in his...Read more
What Trump Should Have Said Thursday Night
When Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday night and accepts for the third time the Republican Party’s nomination for president, he faces an opportunity and a temptation.
The temptation is to launch a full-bore attack on Democrats, President Biden, the left and the media. The opportunity is to use the sympathy he has garnered since last ...Read more
Leftist Social Media Must Tone Down the Rhetoric!
“ We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” – politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3330593">Read more
Cal Thomas: Project 2025
One way to measure the power of conservative policy proposals is to monitor the reaction of the left.
The Heritage Foundation’s ideas for the next conservative president to implement must be good because liberals are hysterical in their opposition. And that’s because they directly challenge ...Read more
Cal Thomas: The Biden cover-up
Anyone hoping the interview of President Biden by George Stephanopoulos of ABC News would allay fears by growing numbers of Democrats that the president is not mentally fit to serve another four years must be disappointed.
When asked repeatedly and in ...Read more
Supreme Court Protects All Presidents
Put aside former president Donald Trump (an impossible task for some) and examine the Supreme Court’s majority ruling that protects any president from litigation for decisions and actions he (or she, but for the sake of this column I will use the male pronoun) has made ...Read more
Biden Claims to Know Right From Wrong
At a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, following his universally criticized debate performance, President Biden attempted to draw a ...Read more
Supremes to Rule on Transgender Law
As if current Supreme Court cases were not controversial enough, the justices have accepted an appeal by the Biden administration“ seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care for minors.” Notice that the ...Read more