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It’s a positive trend that I hope continues: the resurgence of summer picnics. In 2020, with restaurants shuttered and experts telling us the bug didn’t spread so easily in outdoor air, many people, in particular younger people, began picnicking...

Dave Granlund's simple, poignant Memorial Day cartoon was our most-reprinted cartoon this week, as we had into a weekend of remembrance and barbecues.. Nice work if you can get it. Dave Granlund [download cartoon] #2...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan What are you doing to celebrate Memorial Day? My son Cameron, as usual, will take his daughters to a military cemetery and remind them who those fallen soldiers were and why America was worth fighting and dying for...

If my math is correct, the 2024 Republican presidential contest is starting to look like the Marx brothers’ stateroom scene. Tim Scott, ex-South Carolina Gov. Ron DeSantis of DeSantistan, former Arkansas Gov...

Mark Edward Vanderheid was born in Tonawanda, New York, on February 11, 1949.. Young Mark was one of 58,222 who died in the Vietnam War. million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters were killed...

The Jezebel of the Republican Party is at it again. Marjorie Taylor Greene engaged in some wild intellectual dishonesty by accusing New York Democratic Rep...

Tyrades! The domicile was memorable because it was right next door to the Hi-Way 50 Drive-in Theater and filled my young mind with impractical daydreams of watching free movies from across the fence...

In a much anticipated chess match in February, 1996, the world champion Garry Kasparov faced IBM’s Deep Blue, the most advanced chess-playing machine. It was humanity’s proudest moment in competition pitting man vs...

Every year, polls show that a large number of Americans don’t know why we celebrate Memorial Day. Few Americans are aware that the original reason for Memorial Day dates back to the Civil War...

My best friend was around to my house on a recent Saturday for a long overdue reunion...

Democrats in Philadelphia just came through a bruising mayoral primary, which is basically the city's general election...

You can barely open a newspaper or flip through an article on your phone without reading about the growth of artificial intelligence....

Making Sense by Michael Reagan What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years? 6, 2021. President Biden went even farther, repeatedly claiming that 1/6 was the “greatest threat” to American democracy since the Civil War...

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon infelicitously said a few years ago that the goal of the MAGA movement was “to flood the zone with s--t. That’s happening again right now, with the long-awaited release of the Durham Report...

Title 42 has  ended, and the “Great Reset” is gathering a full head of steam. �� While the mission conveys compassion, the sub rosa translation is: Green light the free flow of cheap labor...

Tyrades! that is spread via the internet and often altered in a creative or humorous way,” explains Dictionary. Some people are mere passive consumers of memes...

I spend the first half hour of my day reading — or, to be more accurate, deleting — emails. Guaranteed to go: Emails beginning with my first name or warning of my last chance to do something...

During his commencement speech at Howard University last weekend, President Joe Biden stated that white supremacy is the greatest threat to our society. “There he goes again! It's a phrase applied perfectly to Tommy Tuberville...

What’s Wrong with Daddy? When the parents arrive, they joyfully greet their academically-hungover children and start the arduous and sometimes pungent process of “un-dorming...

Fifty-one years ago, the national Democratic Party and its presidential nominee were characterized as the party of ”acid, amnesty and abortion” in one of the more devastating, effective and enduring slogans in American political history...

There is a loneliness epidemic in the United States, but there are some simple ways we can address it.. �� The report found that even before the covid lockdowns chased us into months of isolation in our homes about half of U...

The dreaded rub of holiday cartoons - editors love them, and cartoonists hate to draw them. � Editors also ran cartoons covering a smorgasbord of topics, ranging from federal charges against Rep...

Making Sense by Michael Reagan AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels...

To borrow a phrase from Claude Rains in "Casablanca," I was shocked, shocked!..

Lou Gehrig had two women in his life – his mother Christina and his wife Eleanor. During Gehrig’s youth, Christina, a first-generation German immigrant, was the family’s backbone. Lou was the only one of the Gehrig babies to reach adulthood...

Tyrades! (Sometimes it’s difficult to approach news items at all, when there are shouts of “When are you going to carry out the garbage? �� But I digress...

Newton Minow will always be remembered for a 1961 speech in which he described television as a “vast wasteland. The legendary former FCC chairman knew a thing or two about television, having studied it for most of his adult life...

She was only 18 when rheumatic fever damaged her heart. Lucky for my five sisters and me, she ignored them! She never put anything into her body but the nutrients that would help us flourish...

By now, you've probably seen the chilling video showing the murder (yes that what it was) of Jordan Neely, a 24-year old New York man killed on the subway by a former Marine named Daniel Penny. � Many progressives, such as Reps...

When you want to persuade people that the thing you are doing is good, moral, and just, you throw in the word “fairness. This act, if passed by the Senate and then signed by Gov...