Columns

Unlearned Lessons By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services “What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ...

Super CommercialBy Cal ThomasTribune Media ServicesIn the midst of the usual glut of Super Bowl commercials with messages about beer, cars and women with impossible bosoms, on Super Bowl Sunday there will be one 30-second message that has some people upset, even angry.It is a ...

The President and the RepublicansBy Cal ThomasTribune Media ServicesPresident Obama was right to converse with congressional Republicans last Friday in Baltimore. Cynics may label it as political theater, but I suspect the public appreciated the give-and-take.The president was given a ...

Retreat to Advance? By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services If you live long enough in Washington you’ll learn there is literally nothing new under the sun. That’s why it is amusing to listen to the House “Progressive ...

Personhood By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services Among the interesting arguments in last week’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision granting corporations First Amendment protections when making campaign contributions was the majority’s decision to effectively treat corporations as persons. ...

We the People By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services In his first comment following Scott Brown’s stunning victory in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, President Obama told the ...

A New Dawn By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services RICHMOND, Va. — After several weeks of heavy snow and sub-freezing temperatures, the sun came out and the snow began to melt in Richmond last Saturday for the ...

A Falling Doctrine By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services PORSTEWART, NORTHERN IRELAND — A familiar philosophical question goes like this: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it ...

The British (Elections) are Coming By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND — The new year kicked-off an election campaign for prime minister of the United Kingdom with a series of soap opera events that ...

Something About That NameBy Cal ThomasTribune Media ServicesThe secular left — and some self-described Christians — criticize Brit Hume, the Fox News commentator, for suggesting that the solution to Tiger Woods’ problems is a relationship with Jesus Christ. Hume made ...