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From the Right / Cal Thomas / Sep 22, 2025

The 9/23/25 Cal Thomas column has re-posted to update information on the return of Jimmy Kimmel to ABC following his brief suspension. Use the updated version.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 6: Politicians including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (R), New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (2nd-R), New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (C) and New York State Attorney General Letitia James (2nd-L) march during the 2025 NYC Labor Day Parade on September 6, 2025 in New York City. Hundreds of workers from various unions marched in this year's parade. (Photo by Heather Khalifa/Getty Images)

Kathy Hochul’s ‘Principles’

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Sep 18, 2025

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, reminds me of an old Groucho Marx line: “Those are my principles and...Read more

A TV monitor displays a picture of Tyler Robinson, the suspected of killing Charlie Kirk on September 11, in Orem, Utah, on September 12, 2025. US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that the suspect had been taken into custody over the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk after a massive manhunt. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Charlie Kirk: Converter

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Sep 16, 2025

Charlie Kirk has been called many things, including an influencer, especially of young people.

A better label might be “converter.” The power to speak truth in a way that changes a political mindset is better than influencer. Kirk possessed that power which led to his murder by a politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3853351">Read more

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on religious liberty in education at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, on September 8, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: The girl on the train

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Sep 11, 2025

She fled Ukraine for fear she might be killed in the war with Russia and came to America where she thought she might be safe. She was wrong.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was sitting alone on a train in Charlotte, North ...Read more

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) speaks to the media on his Committee's investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive state, in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Committee interviewed White House chief of staff under President Biden Ron Klain on Biden's cognitive state and his use of the autopen. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The Autopen Controversy

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Sep 09, 2025

The autopen has been around in one form or another since Thomas Jefferson was president. According to shapell.org, “In 2005, George W. Bush was the first president to enquire with the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the ...Read more

A journalist holds the blood-covered camera belonging to Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, a journalist who freelanced for AP since the start of the war and who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during her funeral on August 25, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said five journalists, including Mariam Dagga, were among at least 20 people killed on August 25 when Israeli strikes hit Nasser hospital in the south, with Reuters, the Associated Press and Al Jazeera mourning their slain contributors. (Photo by AFP). AFP via Getty Images

Shaping Opinion

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Sep 04, 2025

NEW ROSS, Ireland – Traveling the world as I have this summer exposed not only different opinions about major issues, but also a difference in how journalists in free countries and propagandists in unfree ones report them.

Sadly, much of the journalism in free countries is too often behaving like propagandists in unfree countries. The result ...Read more