Recent Columns
May 29, 2023
by Tom Purcell

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...
May 26, 2023
by Daryl Cagle

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...
May 25, 2023
by Michael Reagan

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...
May 25, 2023
by Dick Polman

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...
May 24, 2023
by Joe Guzzardi

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...
May 24, 2023
by Elwood Watson

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...
May 24, 2023
by Danny Tyree

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...
May 23, 2023
by Peter Funt

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...
May 23, 2023
by Tom Purcell

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...
May 22, 2023
by John L. Micek

My best friend was around to my house on a recent Saturday for a long overdue reunion...
May 22, 2023
by Christine Flowers

Democrats in Philadelphia just came through a bruising mayoral primary, which is basically the city's general election...
May 19, 2023
by Daryl Cagle

You can barely open a newspaper or flip through an article on your phone without reading about the growth of artificial intelligence....
May 18, 2023
by Michael Reagan

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...
May 18, 2023
by Dick Polman

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...
May 18, 2023
by Joe Guzzardi

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...
May 17, 2023
by Danny Tyree

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...
May 17, 2023
by Peter Funt

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...
May 17, 2023
by Elwood Watson

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...
May 16, 2023
by Jase Graves

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...
May 15, 2023
by Carl Golden

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...
May 15, 2023
by Tom Purcell

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...
May 12, 2023
by Daryl Cagle

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...
May 11, 2023
by Michael Reagan

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...
May 11, 2023
by Dick Polman

To borrow a phrase from Claude Rains in "Casablanca," I was shocked, shocked!..
May 11, 2023
by Joe Guzzardi

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...
May 10, 2023
by Danny Tyree

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...
May 9, 2023
by Peter Funt

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...
May 9, 2023
by Tom Purcell

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...
May 9, 2023
by Elwood Watson

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...
May 8, 2023
by Christine Flowers

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...