Articles by Cal Thomas

D-Day’s ‘Forgotten’ Woman

Cal Thomas | June 06, 2019

Observances of the 75th anniversary of D-Day are properly focusing on the troops and the architect of Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who freed… Read More

EconomyCommentary

No Credit Where Credit Is Due

Cal Thomas | May 30, 2019

The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you… Read More

EconomyCommentary

Heritage’s ‘Blueprint for Balance’ Has Real Fixes for Our Spending Crisis

Cal Thomas | May 23, 2019

Among the many things that frustrate Americans about Washington, D.C., is the unwillingness—not inability, but unwillingness—to solve problems. One of many examples is the U.S…. Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Wind Is Shifting Behind the Pro-Life Cause

Cal Thomas | May 22, 2019

Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, I Had a Friendship With Doris Day

Cal Thomas | May 16, 2019

It was Oscar Levant who uttered the famous line: “I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.” In a way it was a backhanded… Read More

SocietyCommentary

David McCullough’s ‘The Pioneers’ Is a Rebuke to Our Entitlement Mentality

Cal Thomas | May 08, 2019

In a country preoccupied with presidential candidates preaching extreme liberalism and even unabashed socialism comes America’s greatest living historian, David McCullough, with a new and… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

Signs of the Times

Cal Thomas | May 03, 2019

It took a few days, but The New York Times finally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon… Read More

SocietyCommentary

In Defense of Kate Smith

Cal Thomas | April 26, 2019

The long arm of the PC police has reached back to the ’30s and arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who… Read More

PoliticsCommentary

The Left’s Response to Mueller Report Shows They Weren’t After the Truth

Cal Thomas | April 25, 2019

Objectivity, like Elvis, long ago left the building in Washington, and so the report by special counsel Robert Mueller is being read and interpreted through… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Why People Aren’t Fleeing This Central American Country in Caravans

Cal Thomas | April 19, 2019

LIBERIA, Costa Rica—In the ongoing U.S. debate about immigration, the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala are mainly in the news because… Read More