Cal Thomas: Sticks, stones and worse

Columns & Analysis

Published
June 15, 2022

Cal Thomas: Sticks, stones and worse

While many Democrats (and the two Republicans) on the House January 6 committee blame former president Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol riot, they are curiously unconcerned about the rhetoric of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and others within their own party.
Published
June 14, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Donald Trump LOST the 2020 election!

Unfortunately, the more deeply people are invested in the comfort of lies, the less use they have for the challenges of truth. So it seems likely the Jan. 6 committee’s appeal for Republicans to rejoin reality is destined for meager success at best.
Published
June 13, 2022

Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump.

Both Nixon and Trump have been willing prisoners of their compulsions to dominate, and to gain and hold political power through virtually any means. In leaning so heavily on these dark impulses, they defined two of the most dangerous and troubling eras in American history.
Published
June 12, 2022

Rich Lowry: Biden is an old man overwhelmed by events

Biden would surely be great if unleashed at Fourth of July picnics. What does that get him, though? He's not running for the Wilmington, Delaware, city council. He's trying to right the listing ship of state of a great continental nation.
Published
June 12, 2022

Cal Thomas: Prime time for anti-Trumpers

The House Jan. 6 congressional committee is attempting to divert the attention of what concerns most Americans to what some have called the "near destruction of our democracy."

Published
June 12, 2022

Froma Harrop: California Democrats had to educate the media

If the activist left succeeded in portraying itself as the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, the fault lies in much of the political media. Rather than sending Democrats a message, California has sent the media a message on where Democrats really stand on crime.
Published
June 12, 2022

Austin Bay: Political corruption and injustice threaten U.S. national security

The United States must get serious about its own survival as a republic dedicated to protecting individual life and liberty.
Published
June 11, 2022

Froma Harrop: The left fringe almost always loses

It's not just Republican voters who are defending a few honest members of their party against right-wing assault. Democrats have pushed back left-wing jihads against their moderates. Note the failure to knock off a conservative Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, in a recent primary.
Published
June 11, 2022

Rich Lowry: The United States has an epidemic of gang shootings

It is difficult to tell exactly how many gun homicides in the country are gang-related (among other things, witnesses are reluctant to talk). But the Department of Justice's National Gang Center, in what is almost certainly an undercount, reports that there were roughly 2,000 gang homicides annually from 2007-2012, accounting for about 13% of all homicides. In Chicago and Los Angeles, around half of all homicides were gang related.
Published
June 9, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Janes: ‘We thought it was over’

“The Janes” is a compelling history that feels like an ominous prophecy. In the painful serendipity of its timing, it reminds us that there is nothing quite so bitter and emotionally exhausting as defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. As one Jane says of the 1973 ruling, “We were thrilled and we thought it was over. Who knew what would follow?”

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