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WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 24: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on February 24, 2026 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Spanberger is serving in her first year as governor and is the first woman to hold the position in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Photo by Mike Kropf/Getty Images)

As Goes Virginia; the Courts Should Disallow Such Blatant Gerrymandering!

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Apr 21, 2026

ARLINGTON, Virginia – On Tuesday, Virginia voters who bother to vote will take gerrymandering to a new and dangerous level.

Governor Abigail Spanberger, a liberal wolf in moderate clothing, has led a campaign ...Read more

TOPSHOT - Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Pope, Three cardinals and the Iran War

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Apr 16, 2026

“War is Hell,” said Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1879.

Pope Leo and three cardinals of the Catholic Church who appeared last Sunday on “60 Minutes,” agree. The problem for these theologians is that for them it...Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Mother Loraine Marie Maguire, (C), of the Little Sisters of the Poor, walks down the steps of the US Supreme Court after arguments, March 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. The high court heard arguments in Little Sisters v. Burwell, which will examine whether the governments new health care regulation will require the Little Sisters to change their healthcare plan, to other services that violate Catholic teaching. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Democrats Again Attack Religion

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Apr 14, 2026

By Cal Thomas

Democrats are again trying to pry some of the religious vote from Republicans, but their actions expose the insincerity of their approach.

The latest example involves an order of Catholic nuns in Hawthorne, New York, who care for the terminally ill. politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4069245">Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - APRIL 01: NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 10-day mission will take NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen around the moon and back. The astronauts are supposed to fly 230,000 miles out into space, the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What do Artemis II and Socialism Have in Common?

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Apr 09, 2026

Watching the enthusiasm, especially among people younger than me, over the Artemis II mission around the moon, recalled that the last men to land on the lunar surface did so in December 1972. Two generations have been born since then and for them the ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd as he leaves after the Palm Sunday mass at St Peter's square in the Vatican on March 29, 2026. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Leo’s Flawed War Doctrine

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Apr 07, 2026

Pope Leo XIV used part of his Palm Sunday message to castigate the United States for attempting to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and threatening the world with mass destruction. In doing so, the “American Pope” confused the real enemy in the war.

Addressing thousands in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4063187">Read more