Cal Thomas

John Calvin Thomas (born 2 December 1942) is an American syndicated columnist, author and radio commentator.

Early life and education

Thomas was born in 1942 in Washington, D.C. He attended the American University for his undergraduate education.

Career

During the 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a reporter at NBC News. During a hiatus in his undergraduate education, he joined the U.S. Army, and served at the Armed Forces Radio in New York. His program on CNBC was nominated for a CableACE Award in 1995. His column, which began in 1984, is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency. Thomas joined Fox News as a political contributor in 1997. He was a panelist on '' Fox News Watch'', a Fox News Channel program critiquing media coverage, and until September 2005 hosted ''After Hours with Cal Thomas'' on the same network. He also gives a daily radio commentary, syndicated by Salem Radio Network.

From 2005 until the end of 2015, Thomas had been a columnist for ''USA Today'', where he wrote articles with friend and political opposite, Bob Beckel, in the style of "point–counterpoint".

Thomas has written extensively about political issues and he supports, among other things, many American positions related to Israel.

He has written 10 books, including ''Blinded By Might'', that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s. Thomas was vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985. Thomas is an evangelical Christian, and a member of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Political views

Iranian nuclear negotiations

In a 2014 ''Washington Times'' article, Thomas claims, " Iranian nuclear negotiators joined with Holocaust deniers, 9/11 truthers and anti-Semites from across the globe."

Barack Obama

In 2014, Thomas criticized the U.S. President Barack Obama for "treating Israel as an enemy."

Islam

In his article "Mumbai Explained", published in the ''Chicago Tribune,'' Thomas wrote that "no new osquesshould be built" in Western countries following the Mumbai terrorist attacks. He further claimed that Muslim immigration posed a danger to the UK and United States.

Following the June 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub by ISIS sympathizer Omar Mateen, Thomas called for a moratorium on construction of mosques in the United States until "radical Islamist ideology" could be "defeated".

LGBT rights

After Bill Clinton became the first sitting United States president to address a gay rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign, Thomas published a column in November 1997 opposing homosexuality, in which he said:

Thomas published a similar column on 16 October 2009, after Barack Obama became the second sitting United States president to address the Human Rights Campaign. Thomas said:

Personal life

Thomas was married to Charlotte Ray Thomas for 51 years until her death in 2017. Thomas married CJ Berwick, a classmate from Walter Johnson High School ()
* 2001, ''The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas'' ()
* 1999, ''Blinded by Might'' with Ed Dobson ()
* 1994, ''The Things That Matter Most'' ()
* 1988, ''The Death of Ethics in America'' ()
* 1983, ''Book Burning'' ()

See also

* List of newspaper columnists

References

External links

Cal Thomas Website

Cal Thomas
at Townhall.com

''The Cal Thomas Commentary''
(radio show)


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1942 births
Living people
American columnists
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
American Presbyterians
American radio personalities
American University alumni
Journalists from Washington, D.C.
American critics of Islam
The Washington Times people
United States Army soldiers
American evangelicals
Neoconservatism