Cal Thomas

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the re-scheduled White House Correspondents Dinner in the Presidential Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria on July 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. The annual gala hosted by the White House Correspondents Association was re-scheduled to tonight after the original event in April was cut short when an armed man, later identified as Cole Tomas Allen, attempted to get past a Secret Service checkpoint. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: Bring back ‘nattering nabobs’

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jul 28, 2026

President Trump’s performance at last Friday’s retooled White House Correspondents’ Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon’s media attack dog. In a speech, Agnew called politicians ...Read more

ORONO, MAINE - MAY 24: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner and Troy Jackson (R), who is running for Governor of Maine, stand together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus on May 24, 2026 in Orono, Maine. Platner is the presumptive Democratic nominee and will face incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) for Maine's U.S. Senate seat in the general election. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Troy Jackson is Graham Platner Lite

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jul 23, 2026

Troy Jackson, the Maine Democratic Party prospective nominee for the Senate, is Graham Platner lite. Platner withdrew from the race to face incumbent Republican Susan Collins following allegations that he sexually assaulted two women, charges he has denied. At least Platner was consistent in his Democrat Socialist of America (DSA) views. Jackson...Read more

Cal Thomas: Who are our domestic enemies?

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jul 21, 2026

The oath is a familiar one. The president and vice president take it, as do members of Congress and many other high government officials. It requires the oath taker to defend the Constitution “against all enemies,...Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: A Peterson Foundation bus stop sign displays the national debt on June 12, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation)

The More Things Don’t Change

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jul 16, 2026

The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose." (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) It has been repeated and attributed ...Read more

ANKARA, TURKEY - JULY 8: US President Donald Trump attends the NATO summit on July 08, 2026 in Ankara, Turkey. Leaders from NATO's 32 countries, plus NATO allies like Ukraine, gathered in the Turkish capital to discuss a range of issues involving spending targets, defense industrial production, and support for Ukraine, among other topics. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: When the guardrails are destroyed

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jul 14, 2026

People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and grandparents. They believed such things would lead to better lives for themselves and for the nation. For many, they did.

Today we look at the lawlessness, the antisemitism, the hate speech directed at the ...Read more