Recent Columns

Americans rediscover the summer picnic
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...
Memorial Day: Top ten cartoons of the week
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...
Memories of Memorial Day
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...
The Republican presidential contest is getting awfully crowded
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...
On Memorial Day, parents mourn hero son killed in Vietnam
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...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is at it again
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...
Are you a drive-in theater enthusiast?
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...
Chatbots are speaking my language
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...
A day to honor our war dead
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...
Words of wisdom and a warning
May 22, 2023 by John L. Micek
My best friend was around to my house on a recent Saturday for a long overdue reunion...
Philly election shows how progressive movement can be stopped
May 22, 2023 by Christine Flowers
Democrats in Philadelphia just came through a bruising mayoral primary, which is basically the city's general election...
A.I. insanity: Top ten cartoon of the week
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....
America’s biggest threat was not 1/6
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...
Trumpists are hyping John Durham’s dud report
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...
World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ advances
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...
Are you addicted to memes?
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...
All in a day’s deletions
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...
Biden’s white supremacy comments hit the mark, and one Republican senator
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...
How to ‘un-dorm’ a college student
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...
To defeat Biden, Republicans could look back to 1972
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...
Curing our loneliness epidemic
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...
Happy Mother’s Day! Top 10 cartoons of the week
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...
AOC and the war on our appliances
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...
Trump suckered CNN right into his sewer
May 11, 2023 by Dick Polman
To borrow a phrase from Claude Rains in "Casablanca," I was shocked, shocked!..
On Mother’s Day: Christina Gehrig, the Iron Horse’s Iron-Fisted Mom
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...
Have you heard of After School Satan clubs?
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...
The vastness Newton Minow leaves behind
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...
A good day to celebrate an extraordinary mother
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...
Being disturbed doesn’t grant you the right to kill
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...
New Pennsylvania fairness act is blatantly unfair
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...