Recent Columns

NBC News and the folly of the Ronna McDaniel failure
March 27, 2024 by Dick Polman
The welcome announcement arrived at dinnertime, and it was good for digestion...
One point of view
March 27, 2024 by Alexandra Paskhaver
When I hike to the end of a long trail and see a beautiful sunset or a sparkling river, a single thought always occurs to me: did I turn off the oven? They’re trying to get themselves in shape and to get me out of my desk chair...
Ever have a work spouse?
March 27, 2024 by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! (“I fervently believe both Hamas and Putin could be nullified simply by … oooo…fresh Krispy Kremes! ��) And then there are the “work spouses...
Opening Day 1969: ‘The Kid’ returns
March 26, 2024 by Joe Guzzardi
During the spring of 1969, spirits were high in the nation’s capital. Cautious optimism prevailed that newly inaugurated President Richard Nixon would fulfill his campaign promise to end the Southeast Asian war...
Joe ‘It’s not my fault’ Biden
March 26, 2024 by Carl Golden
With President Joe Biden's approval ratings lodged stubbornly on the minus side – some by as much as 30 percent – his re-election campaign team seems to be teetering in the verge of desperation to strike a message and drive a narrative to halt t..
Kamala Harris and the twin evils of ‘Jim Crow and Jane Crow’
March 26, 2024 by Elwood Watson
From the minute President Joe Biden selected her as his running mate, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense scrutiny. She can hardly sneeze without someone analyzing and dissecting her every move...
Message for my digital goddaughter
March 25, 2024 by Tom Purcell
My 13-year-old goddaughter still can’t understand how telephone busy signals used to work...
Entitled to more than a 20% tip or just entitlement mentality?
March 25, 2024 by Christine Flowers
The other night, I took a friend out for her birthday at an upscale French restaurant. But even perfection has its tics. But this night, I had a problem. He disappeared...
Bad choices: Top ten cartoons of the week
March 21, 2024 by Daryl Cagle
We've know for a long time the 2024 presidential election was likely to come down to Joe Biden vs. Give Chris Weyant credit for coming up with a funny spin on the election with a cartoon featuring a ballot saying the obvious...
Oakland’s tax revolt is a hopeful insurrection
March 21, 2024 by Michael Reagan
Making Sense by Michael Reagan You’d never expect a tax revolt to start in the blue California city of Oakland...
On environmental investing, Main Street speaks and Wall Street responds
March 21, 2024 by Peter Roff
When you’re responsible for other people’s money, mixing it with morality is a mistake. Wall Street learned this the hard way...
The day Republican’s impeachment efforts died
March 21, 2024 by Dick Polman
How delicious it is to sniff the smoking wreckage of the House Republican's fake impeachment probe. Turns out (according to federal court documents) Smirnov has “extensive and extremely recent” ties with “Russian intelligence agencies...
Gone loopy
March 20, 2024 by Alexandra Paskhaver
Recently I took up crocheting, the theory being that if I can’t survive a zombie apocalypse, at least I can have nice coasters. Correspondingly, it requires half a brain to do, which is twice as much as I have...
So you acknowledge Jesus as a wise teacher? Really?
March 20, 2024 by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Countless people who reject Jesus Christ as the Son of God will nonetheless grudgingly acknowledge him as a “good man” or “wise moral teacher. “Take heed and beware of covetousness,” Jesus proclaimed...
Meghan Markle doesn’t have to help Princess Kate
March 19, 2024 by Elwood Watson
I knew it was only a matter of time before segments of the right-wing media, both here in America and in Britain, would reignite their propaganda/outrage machine towards Meghan Markle, better known as The Duchess of Sussex...
Still living the American dream
March 19, 2024 by Tom Purcell
A growing number of Americans think the American Dream is out of reach, but I think they are wrong. Half of the poll’s respondents believed that America’s economic and political systems are “stacked against people like me...
What’s with all the big stuff?
March 19, 2024 by Peter Funt
After years of trying to develop what he called a “premium” hamburger, McDonald’s CFO Ian Borden surprised no one the other day by announcing that the company's new focus is not making burgers better, just a lot bigger...
Rant against Israel by Jewish director was jarring
March 19, 2024 by Christine Flowers
A few years ago, a bunch of people tried to erase the memory of Christopher Columbus...
To win, the GOP needs to say what its for, not against
March 14, 2024 by Michael Reagan
Making Sense by Michael Reagan Republicans are never going to impeach Joe Biden. Just as Democrats weren’t able to impeach Donald Trump because they didn’t control the Senate, Republicans are never going to impeach Biden for the same reason...
On St. Patrick’s Day, remembering when the Irish ruled the ring
March 14, 2024 by Joe Guzzardi
The date: September 7, 1892. The event: the World Heavy Weight title battle, featuring challenger John J. Sullivan. “the Boston Strong Boy,” America’s first sports hero...
The big re-run: Top ten cartoons of the week
March 14, 2024 by Daryl Cagle
Get ready for a long campaign, as both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have officially secured their respective party's presidential nomination. The campaign could get even worse, if Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers takes Robert F...
A female Republican’s most thankless job
March 14, 2024 by Dick Polman
There are lots of thankless odious jobs in America – sanitation worker, septic tank repairman – but surely none are worse than cleaning up Donald Trump’s serial excrement. It’s a tough job, defending a guy who also brags about ending Roe v...
I got COVID when COVID wasn’t cool
March 14, 2024 by Jase Graves
Well, it finally happened. I got COVID! Then the headaches started, like my frontal lobe was hosting a rave party for Diet Coke and Mentos...
Katie Britt and the cult of the kitchen
March 13, 2024 by Elwood Watson
It was "The Stepford Wives" meets "The Handmaid’s Tale. Katie Britt, which has been widely mocked by politicians and pundits alike...
Speak softly and carry a can opener
March 13, 2024 by Alexandra Paskhaver
["cartoon id="272355"] You shouldn’t need the arm strength of a gorilla to open a can of tuna. And it is easy, if you define hard as easy. On my part, I’m just about ready to donate my cans to the local ballpark so I can see flying fish...
Has the Pentagon shattered your faith in UFOs?
March 13, 2024 by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! You may recall last summer a former intelligence officer told Congress that Uncle Sam maintains a covert stockpile of downed alien spacecraft and corpses...
Missing my Irish ancestors
March 12, 2024 by Tom Purcell
Piglet! Like millions of Americans, I’ve been poking into my heritage using ancestry sites, such as FamilySearch. That’s how I learned that “Purcell” is an occupational name of Norman origin for "swineherd...
The struggling Biden campaign
March 11, 2024 by Carl Golden
The Biden campaign is floundering – directionless, unable to formulate a coherent second term vision and battered by a series of national polls that place his public standing at historic low levels for an incumbent president seeking re-election...
Our obsession with true crime
March 11, 2024 by Peter Funt
In television, now more than ever, crime pays. Nearly half of Apple’s top 20 podcasts in the U. are devoted to true crime, and the internet is chockablock with recommendations for the best new true crime books...
Pushing veterans aside to hire ‘new Americans’
March 11, 2024 by Joe Guzzardi
New York, Illinois, and California are among the states most closely associated with embracing illegal border crossers and assorted other asylum seekers...