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John F.. I have always been fascinated with people who find within themselves the ability to defy expectations, anger their presumed allies and follow their own conscience...

The National Day of Prayer is on May 2nd this year. Like a lot of people, I don't pray until things go sour or I have some daunting challenge heading my way. I pray every April 15 — after cursing — when a large sum of taxes is due...

Editors were big fans of Chris Weyant this week, who had our top three most-reprinted cartoons. Weyant and a couple of cartoonists riffed on the new movie "Civil War," which has obviously political undertones for our divided nation...

Across the states, America's public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb...

Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan Another week, another round of Republicans attacking each other. The Republican controlled House, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, passed the Ukraine funding bill after what seemed like years of delays by a vote of 311-112...

Editor’s note: A version of this column was published in 2017. Some girls are spending $2,000 or more on their custom prom dresses. I offer some advice to 2024 promgoers, based on my own prom experience in 1980...

Just because I think littering should be punishable by death doesn't mean I'm an unreasonable person. I smile when dogs get on public transport. I also have a freshly-oiled chainsaw in my garage...

Tyrades! Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just as it usually applies the brakes to abrupt municipal name changes in the real world. Neither did my father. We can’t change!..

For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. But it's nothing new for the Grand Old Party...

Month after month, poll after poll, a majority of Americans express their dissatisfaction with the Biden administration over virtually every issue of concern – domestic and foreign...

Boy, is technology making us ruder. You see, long before the era of nasty Facebook posts and mean tweets — long before people had such an easy means to be rude to each other — there was a much tamer version of email rudeness...

John Paul II once stated that “there can be no rule of law … unless citizens and especially leaders are convinced that there is no freedom without truth...

Add California Governor Gavin Newsom’s name to the list of prominent elected officials who blatantly lied about their personal histories. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed to have been a Vietnam war combatant...

The cost of everything, from gas to groceries, remains stubbornly high. Home prices skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic, and inflation fears forced interest rates to rise...

How sad it is that few Americans have heard of Bob Graham, who died Tuesday at 87, because this guy was truly a profile in courage when we needed it most...

Making Sense By Michael Reagan “Death to Israel! �� It sounds like something you’d hear chanted by hundreds of brainwashed young people in the streets of Tehran...

For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster...

England! Glorious England! I’ve been in London for the past month, officially as part of a study abroad program. When traveling, the usual questions come up. What’s the currency exchange rate?..

Tyrades! Bathroom mirrors that initiate telehealth conferences based on your complexion or facial tics...

I’m pretty sure that the number of people who are mourning the death of OJ Simpson can fit into the trunk of the smallest car Hertz ever rented. As a human being, I am repulsed by the fact that he treated women like a punching bag...

"Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” is on April 25th, and I think we should try something different this year: Let's take our daughters and sons to grandma's...

It's not exactly news we're a divided country, but we can't even agree on whether our economy is doing well or not. In fact, the U...

An adjudicated rapist, who was recently held liable by a jury for physically invading a woman’s bodily autonomy, has now taken it upon himself to opine about how government can control women’s bodily autonomy...

Making Sense By Michael Reagan I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington...

I’ve spent a lot of time on the couch. Where most children graduate from a little bed to a bigger one, I graduated to one of those foldable couches where you can keep things beneath the seat. I barely feel those tennis rackets...

The state visit by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida isn't just about tea and photo ops.. The deal is a win-win for American workers and shareholders.. The market roared its approval. Joe Biden's knee-jerk opposition to the deal sent U...

Tyrades! (My so-called “good” cholesterol has not exactly overperformed in helping me reach these milestones...

Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s...

Because I’m a professional practitioner of the pedagogical arts (known in some parts as fancy book learnin’), I’m privileged to enjoy a Spring Break holiday that usually falls during the same week my semi-grown daughters are also out of school..