Recent Columns

Lately, I’ve started seeing all the usual Christmas decorations, books, gift suggestions, articles, foods and complaints about all the usual Christmas decorations, books, gift suggestions, articles, and foods...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan The world is still COVID crazy. Now we have omicron – a new variant of still unknown infectiousness and lethality that overnight panicked the world’s governments and stock markets...

I’ve never been fired from a job, which I’m sure will now trigger calls from a portion of the readership for my immediate ouster. I attribute this largely to my ability to make myself useful. Call it misguided confidence. “I’ll do it!..

Families in Michigan will set an empty place at the table this holiday season in the wake of the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left four children dead and seven more injured...

The other day, Otis, the used car dealer, pulled out a wad of bills and handed my son two crisp C-notes. Danny purchased his car from Otis years earlier with $3,000 saved from two summers of maintenance work at the local golf course...

More than a week has transpired since three Georgia men were convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. "An almost all-white jury found these white defendants guilty of murder," Page Pate, a Georgia lawyer, told NBC News...

If only I had a magic wand, I would henceforth consign all conspiracy freaks and vaccine refuseniks (78 million in number) to some distant desert isle where they could breathe free upon each other until God sorts them out. I suspect you are, too...

Only the most willfully obtuse on Capitol Hill would deny that the Biden administration’s neglect of wide-open borders might lead to a national security crisis.. Distance isn’t a deterrent....

Tyrades! My mother’s boss passed away, so I no longer got to peruse his morning paper. I still had the local gossip grapevine, radio newscasts and TV anchor David Brinkley. And, oh, the taunting from the family dog!..

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I wish I had a change of heart, but I still can’t support it. According to the Washington Times, Robert Davi, a tough-guy Hollywood actor, and then Rep. attempted something back then that tough guys and conservative Republicans don’t often do....

Ahmaud Arbery is not here, but he heard the verdicts...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan The other day, I ran into someone who was too discouraged to give thanks for much of anything. I admit I found it hard to disagree with him. Inflation is spiking. So have crime rates and drug ODs and suicides...

Overpopulation’s negative consequences are well-known to the nation’s environmentalists. International researchers have concluded that too many people also creates a level of noise pollution that brings with it serious health problems...

Tyrades! Since my mother is an antique collector and regales everyone with tales of growing up during “hard times,” and since many of my ancestors came from Virginia, it’s certainly PLAUSIBLE that I got in on the ground floor of Earl Hamner Jr...

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Not guilty on all counts. last year. Witnessing the numerous acts of deference toward the defense by Judge Bruce E. He forbade the prosecution from calling the three men Rittenhouse shot “victims,” referring to it as a “loaded term...

I love pumpkin pie — but not just any pumpkin pie. It’s a Purcell family tradition, after all, and tradition is the reason Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. According to History...

About a month ago, I was traveling on the subway in Philadelphia when I was attacked by a young African-American male in a hoodie, who was angry that I was filming him after he’d punched me in the head moments before...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan On Thursday afternoon, as the country was still awaiting the decision on the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial, the yahoos outside the courthouse in Kenosha were ready to riot...

I received a letter from prison the other day. Prison – joint, slammer, big house. It has, however, occurred to me, at least based on the email I receive, that some should be...

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Tyrades! This Thanksgiving marks four centuries since the 1621 harvest festival held by the half of the Plymouth Colony that survived that cruel first winter. I’m bobbing for antibiotics!..

While a disbelieving nation is focused on the endless border crisis, more immigration sleight of hand is ongoing in Washington. The National Border Patrol Council’s Rio Grande Valley chapter vice president Chris Cabrera told Sen...

These days, we’re all used to walking through retail stores in October and dodging Christmas displays of inflatable Baby Yoda yard art while we’re still trying to find the perfect Halloween pumpkins to decompose on our front porches...

Because life is mostly made up of little experiences, occasionally interrupted by big events, it’s easy to take the little things for granted...

The latest iteration of Build Back Better – the president's multi-trillion-dollar tax-and-spending binge that has been stalled in Congress all year – purports to reduce the cost of prescription drugs via negotiation...

If Kyle Rittenhouse is convicted of anything other than, at most, a misdemeanor offense, I will write glowing articles about Nancy Pelosi, make Christine Blasey Ford my social media profile photo, and contribute to NARAL...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan Did you and your family celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday? “The Fall of the Wall” was a geopolitical earthquake in 1989...

Mark Twain, in an unpublished manuscript, once wrote: “It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible...