Cal Thomas

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.

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Law enforcement vehicles are seen parked outside Temple Israel guarding the scene in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 13, 2026, after a person identified as Ayman Ghazali drove a vehicle into the building. A 41-year-old man was killed on March 12 after ramming his pickup truck into a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, causing a blaze and triggering a huge police response. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images)

Debunking the Lone Wolf ‘Myth’

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Apr 02, 2026

Since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, government officials have said their greatest fear is self-radicalized individuals they call “lone wolves.” The March 12 politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4058641">Read more

American troops on board a truck at a forward command post in the city of Hu?, during the Battle of Hu?, Vietnam War, February 1968. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lessons From the Vietnam War for Iran

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Mar 31, 2026

We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those wars we had the draft, so more Americans were engaged in fighting and watching their progress, or lack thereof.

Today, while recruiting numbers have ...Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) depart the White House on their way to Florida on March 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump is spending the weekend at his private Mar-a-Lago Club. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Political Instant Replay

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Mar 26, 2026

In sports, the instant replay was invented and first used by a man named Tony Verna on the Dec. 7, 1963 broadcast of the Army-Navy football game on CBS.

The political “instant replay” has no single ...Read more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 19: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul attends a press conference on the release of NYC High School student Dylan Lopez Contreras at Middle Church on March 19, 2026 in New York City. Lopez Contreras was freed after spending nearly a year of detention after being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at a Lower Manhattan courthouse while attending a mandatory hearing. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: Sending in the clowns

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Mar 24, 2026

Even someone with a rudimentary understanding of economics should know that if you tax a business or individual beyond their level of tolerance they will pack up and leave the state for one with lower or no state income tax. Unfortunately, one can’t escape the long arm of federal taxes.

Proof of this axiom comes from the IRS and its ...Read more