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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.

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In the killing of Charlie Kirk, we may well have experienced our first pro-trans assassination.

Is anyone surprised? The trans cause has been infused with an irrational fervor from the beginning, its ethos deeply illiberal and even threatening. Just ask J.K. Rowling.

Whether accurate or not, the implicit message of the gay-rights movement ...Read more

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) posted an Anti-Defamation League chart that purports to prove that right-wingers perpetrate the majority of politically motivated murders in the United States.

"Data isn't vibes," she wrote. "If you need vibes, check out the hate filled comments the rightwing will leave on ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- During the Monday monologue that spawned this kerfuffle, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel stepped in it when he said, "The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

As arrogant ...Read more

Is it really too much to ask that a murdered young man be given the dignity of a proper burial before bad-faith opportunists attempt to posthumously rewrite his legacy to better serve their own nefarious ends? Is it really too much to ask that a murdered young man's family and friends -- to say nothing of the countless individuals whose lives ...Read more

Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting are the two largest owners of ABC television stations in the United States. After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr blasted ABC for Jimmy Kimmel suggesting Charlie Kirk's assassin was "MAGA," Nexstar and Sinclair decided to stop airing Jimmy Kimmel and demanded that ABC take action.

ABC and Disney acted after Nexstar...Read more

ABC stunned the media world on Wednesday by announcing they were suspending "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely after several ABC station groups withdrew their support for the show. It was a similar shock to CBS setting a cancellation date for "Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

The Left went into conniption fits, grieving both festivals of ...Read more

Jimmy Kimmel probably didn't affirmatively lie about the politics of Charlie Kirk's killer -- he just didn't know what he didn't know.

In the monologue that got him suspended by ABC, the late-night show host averred, "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk...Read more

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons,

houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable

searches and seizures shall not be violated,

and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,

supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing

the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

-- ...Read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just revealed the depths of her political cowardice and lack of care for her constituents.

As the governor of a state with a city characterized by the most contentious and internationally recognized mayoral race in the United States, she appeared pressured to make an impossible decision: Endorse the frontrunner in ...Read more

The question of whether President Donald Trump has turned the United States toward a new "state capitalism" -- one in which the government is not just economic referee but active player -- has been answered. His second term brings policies that go well beyond traditional Republican pro-market orthodoxies, such as tax cuts and deregulation, and...Read more

It has been a week since young conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down at a rally on the campus of Utah Valley University in front of his wife and hundreds of attendees.

In the days since, a suspect -- 22-year-old Tyler Robinson -- allegedly confessed to his father that he committed the crime. Robinson's father turned him in to the...Read more

On Sept. 10, Russian long-range strike drones entered Polish airspace. Several detonated, destroying houses and vehicles.

A Polish government source told media that Russian Shahed offensive drones attacked from Ukraine and from Belarus. Ukraine is a war zone, but Belarus is a Kremlin puppet.

NATO later reported the drones were Russian ...Read more

This week, my friend Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. He was assassinated while debating with students -- something Charlie did frequently, and with aplomb -- by a radicalized leftist with a trans boyfriend. That assassin decided to kill Charlie because of Charlie's belief that...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity."

Charlie Kirk said that. I'm not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the slain conservative icon on Rumble ...Read more

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he's moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out plans for massive tax hikes, and refusing to share ...Read more

When I was a kid, childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt's bestselling book, "The Anxious Generation," talks about that. He calls it "a tragedy in two acts."

"Act One, we lose the play-based childhood. We stop letting kids run around outside...Read more

When I was a boy, my brothers and I walked more than 2 miles every weekday. This was because we lived a little bit more than a mile from the school we attended.

Our home was in the Dominican neighborhood of San Rafael, California, which was named for Dominican College, the then-all-girls Catholic college that was located there. Our school was...Read more