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Cal Thomas: Trump did the right thing
In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time.
As usual, some in the major media got it wrong. The New York Times initially headlined: “U.S. Enters ...Read more

Handicap the LA Protests!
It would be amusing if it weren’t so serious. Last weekend’s expressions of supposed free speech were almost universally called demonstrations by the media and “mostly peaceful” by some. In contrast, the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol was labeled an “politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3747697">Read more

Hit ’em Hard and Again
After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ‘em hard and hit ‘em again. Show ‘em now that we’re gonna win…”
That is precisely what Israel has done in ...Read more

What Did Losing the War Mean?
NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse i n the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left – May 28, 1970. He served at the hospital for two years where he treated wounded American soldiers and saw many die. He says while he was initially...Read more
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The 6/12/25 Cal Thomas column has been revised to correct the penultimate graf. Use updated version.
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Escape and Return
CAM RANH, Vietnam – The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script.
Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha – known to ...Read more