Cal Thomas

President Donald Trump at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton on Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington.

Commentary: The president missed an opportunity at reconciliation

February 10, 2020 at 11:52 p.m.

For 68 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a political oasis, a chance for Republicans, Democrats, national and world leaders to assemble and pray for each other and the...

Sgt. 1st Class Townsend Williams waves alongside his daughter and his wife, Amy, after returning from deployment in Afghanistan during the State of the Union address in Washington on Feb. 4.

Commentary: The state of President Trump? Ripe for reelection

February 5, 2020 at 10:32 p.m.

The president's State of the Union speech Tuesday night resembled a campaign rally. Some Republicans shouted "four more years" as he approached the lectern. Democrats mostly looked glum, shook their...

President Donald Trump signs a limited trade agreement with China on Jan. 15, 2020, at the White House in Washington.

Commentary: The show trial begins

January 21, 2020 at 4:20 p.m.

The contrast could not have been starker. One picture showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi smiling as she signed (with numerous pens) two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. She...

President Donald Trump leaves after speaking about Iran in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Jan. 8, 2020.

Commentary: Through war or diplomacy, U.S. must be in it to win

January 8, 2020 at 10:10 p.m.

Just before Iran's missile attacks Tuesday on U.S. bases inside Iraq, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said, "We are not seeking war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish...

President Donald Trump attends a "Keep America Great" rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Oct. 10, 2019.

Commentary: Donald Trump has better economic ideas than Democrats, but he’s letting his personality work against him

October 18, 2019 at 8:34 p.m.

Depending on the polls you read and how you read them, nearly half of those surveyed want the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump to continue. That is not...

The Metropolitan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held, is shown on Aug. 10, 2019, in New York.

Commentary: Not all conspiracy theories turn out to be wrong

August 12, 2019 at 10:16 p.m.

After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, investigators discovered that the lone man assigned to guard the president, John Parker, had abandoned his post to watch the play from an adjacent...

Newly independent Rep. Justin Amash wrote in a recent Washington Post op-ed that "the parties value winning for its own sake, and at whatever cost."

Commentary: Rep. Justin Amash, who broke with the GOP, is not a ‘total loser’

July 8, 2019 at 7:51 p.m.

Rep. Justin Amash has left the Republican Party and will now represent Michigan's 3rd Congressional District as an independent. In a Washington Post op-ed, he wrote: "I've become disenchanted with...

Jared Kushner, a special adviser to President Donald Trump, leaves from 10 Downing Street in London on June 4, 2019, during the president and first lady's visit to the United Kingdom.

Commentary: Kushner’s plan to bribe the Palestinians won’t work

June 26, 2019 at 11:17 p.m.

The Trump administration thinks appealing to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un by dangling promises of prosperity in front of him if he agrees to change his ways is the...

The Second Baptist Church in Houston, which is aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention, is shown Feb. 12, 2019. The Southern Baptist Convention is facing a sexual abuse crisis after a bombshell report revealed hundreds of predators and more than 700 victims since 1998.

Alleged sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist church: How could they?

May 31, 2019 at 9:18 p.m.

My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist church had sexually abused as many as 700 people in 400 churches, including victims as young as...

And now the Boy Scouts

May 31, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.

The erosion of what many Americans once believed were the foundations of our country continues apace. They include, but are not limited to, overspending and debt (personal and national), never-ending...

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