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Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas: An innocent abroad
- I remember the first time my wife and I visited Europe and the Middle East. The trip resembled Sen. Barack Obama’s current version of speed travel, but without the entourage, security and network coverage.
Cal Thomas: A school for scoundrels
- Despite a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., has continued to use textbooks that teach hatred of everyone not of their specific brand of faith, the U.S. State Department has yet to act to close down the school.
Cal Thomas: Two men of character
- Two longtime friends of mine died last week. One was the renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey. I first met him as a young reporter in Houston in the late ’60s, and we kept up over the years. He lobbied me to write about health issues and the importance of research. I occasionally asked him for medical advice, which he was always happy to give. A brilliant man with fingers so long he might have been a concert pianist, Dr. DeBakey invented many of the instruments now used in operating rooms and pioneered procedures that have extended human life.
Cal Thomas: England surrenders the rule of law
- So this is how it ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.
Cal Thomas: A matter of life and death
- It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record. President Bush likes it that way, because he gets to speak “frankly” without worrying about how his remarks will be interpreted. Monday, in the on-the-record part of an interview with a small group of newspaper and magazine columnists, the president spoke of progress in Iraq: “I am pleased that the initial skepticism ... is beginning to fade, to the point where [the] king of Jordan is going to Iraq; Prime Minister Maliki is going to Abu Dhabi; ambassadors are soon to be exchanged, hopefully.”
Cal Thomas: Unity is not union
- In keeping with his “messiah” image, Barack Obama might have been more at home in Bethlehem, Pa., than in Unity, N.H., when he and his “former” nemesis, Hillary Clinton, opened their new act on the road to mixed reviews.
Cal Thomas: If you build it, they won’t come
- On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to take up the appeal lodged by environmental groups that focused on a 2-mile stretch of border fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz.
Cal Thomas: Progress? So what
- There is a reason progress in Iraq is not receiving more attention. It isn’t that Americans are “bored” or “tired” or have “moved on” or “don’t care” or “have already made up their minds that the war was a colossal mistake.” All of these are variations on themes articulated by certain liberals, Bush-haters, and Barack Obama supporters (but I repeat myself) inside and outside the big media.
Cal Thomas: The next attack: Coming soon
- When the terrorists attack again, how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the “rights” of terrorists?
Cal Thomas: Obama is no Joshua
- Barack Obama’s presidential campaign plans to strike at the heart of the Republican base by attempting to woo evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics to his side.
Cal Thomas: Lessons from the poor
- Listening to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton repeat stories they claim to have been told by the poor and the unemployed, who are unable to pay for food and medicine and feel miserable about it, is enough to make one think we are living in a Third World dictatorship and not the United States of America. But victimhood and a "can't do" spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
Cal Thomas: Awaiting the next female candidate
- Sen. Hillary Clinton did not win enough delegates to capture the Democratic presidential nomination, but she is not conceding to Barack Obama. It is a strategy of having it both ways that is familiar to Clinton watchers. Why should she surrender when, as she has said, “anything can happen”? The nomination is not official until the delegates convene at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.