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STERLING, VIRGINIA - OCTOBER 25: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks at a CPAC Latino Rally for Virginia on October 25, 2025 in Sterling, Virginia. Earle-Sears, the current lieutenant Governor of Virginia, is campaigning across the state of Virginia with nine days left before election day. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: Tax the dog (walker)

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Feb 03, 2026

At first it seemed like something from the satirical website Babylon Bee. The new governor of Virginia, the “moderate” Democrat Abigail Spanberger, has proposed a tax hike on services such...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 25: Demonstrators march through downtown protesting ICE operations and the death of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA medical center, died yesterday after being shot multiple times during a brief altercation with border patrol agents in the Eat Street district of Minneapolis. Good was killed by an ICE agent on January 7. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Language We Use

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jan 29, 2026

Ancient proverbs can be helpful in adjusting our language and behavior in ways that can benefit every generation. They have become ancient because they work. One example: “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger " (Proverbs 15:1)....Read more

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 24: People gather at the intersection of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue after a fatal shooting by federal agents on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Federal agents allegedly shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a south Minneapolis resident, amid a scuffle to arrest him. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Cal Thomas: The wrong narrative

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jan 27, 2026

If you follow what presents itself as “reporting” these days you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who was used as “bait” to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be arrested. Some claimed the child had been “kidnapped” by ICE.

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: A view of a bus shelter at Pennsylvania Avenue and 22nd Street NW where an electronic billboard and a poster display the current U.S. National debt per person and as a nation at 38 Trillion dollars on October 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation). Getty Images for Peter G. Peters

A Republican Who Wants to Raise Taxes

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jan 22, 2026

Congress is debating major funding bills that would avoid another of those...Read more

Cal Thomas: A bad bet

From the Right / Cal Thomas / Jan 20, 2026

It wasn’t that long ago when sports betting was illegal. Then suddenly it was as though profit, rather than controlling this vice, became paramount. It was inevitable, given human nature, that bad things would follow legalization.

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