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Flagging flag Burners (Again)

From the Right / Cal Thomas /

President Trump wants to penalize anyone who burns the American flag. After initially announcing his intent – apparently before being told the Supreme Court has already said burning the flag is protected under the free expression clause of the First Amendment – Trump said he wishes to criminalize such behavior if it violates existing state ...Read more

TOPSHOT - Protesters demonstrate near members of the National Guard as they stand watch outside Union Station in Washington, DC, on August 20, 2025. US President Donald Trump on August 11 deployed military and federal law enforcement to curb violent crime in Washington, as he seeks to make good on his campaign pledge to be a

Cal Thomas: Trump on crime

From the Right / Cal Thomas /

Democrats have lost another issue. They had hoped to tie President Trump to “ungentlemanly behavior” at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s “Love Island,” but no less a character witness than Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer of underage girls and young women, has told Justice Department interviewers from prison that Trump always acted ...Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 12: Wes Moore, governor of Maryland speaks onstage during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 53rd Annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on September 12, 2024 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation)

Migrating From Blue to Red States

From the Right / Cal Thomas /

During the high inflation days of the Biden administration, many of the less than well-off were forced to cut back on their spending, whether it was food, gasoline or in some cases medication. Some migrated from blue states to red ones where often taxes, housing and prices were lower.

Blue state Democrats are reacting to losing residents not by...Read more

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (R) greets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the tarmac after they arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. Putin is in Alaska at the invitation of Trump in his first visit to a Western country since he ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine that has killed tens of thousands of people. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: Did Trump get rolled in Alaska?

From the Right / Cal Thomas /

Promising severe consequences if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine and then apparently reversing himself is what sends a signal of weakness, not only to Putin, but to the world.

On Saturday, Trump posted this on politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3817435">Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 11: People participate in a rally against the Trump Administration's federal takeover of the District of Columbia, outside of the AFL-CIO on August 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced he is placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, and will deploy the National Guard to the District in order to assist in crime prevention in the nation’s capital. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Washington, D.C.: Then and Now

From the Right / Cal Thomas /

I was born in Washington, D.C., at the end of 1942. Growing up in the suburbs there was so little crime it made the front page in the city’s three newspapers. Today, unless someone who works on Capitol Hill is murdered, or associated with a prominent business, stories are usually buried in the Metro section. Then, you could walk the streets at...Read more

 

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