One of the most famous phrases in history is one that my high school Latin teacher Sister Mary David intoned with deep solemnity as we were studying Caesar: Et tu, Brute? Literally it translates into... More
It's hard to keep up with the current news cycle, with the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump being pushed out of the news by Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the... More
Making Sense By Michael Reagan “This isn't my father's Secret Service.” That’s what I immediately tweeted in response to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Little did I know. Every day, drip by drip, we... More
I’m in a musical mood. Cue Joni Mitchell: All the news of home you read Just gives you the blues Just gives you the blues Having taken a short vacation from the news, I’m tanned,... More
My roommate and I are at war. She just doesn’t know it yet. There’s a speed-bump-sized lump of dust beneath our rug. If you spilled coffee on our tablecloth, it’d get cleaner. The dishes she... More
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Somewhere over the years, karma gave me the finger. It all started with an incident in Mrs. Jones’s high school English class. Classmate Tracy Holder was unconsciously performing multiple animated hand... More
This summer, my wife and I took a vacation with our three semi-grown daughters to one of the most expensive places in America. No, we didn’t visit our local insurance office. We toured several beautiful... More
The political world was shaken over the weekend by the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Footage from the event showed Trump clutch his right ear and go down after gunshots rang out. Quickly... More
I grew up in Bethel Park, the middle-class suburb south of Pittsburgh where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks lived with his parents. Crooks’ attempt to kill Donald Trump last weekend has filled my old neighborhood with... More
Every day for the last ten years, I’ve given daily thanks that I grew up when I did, in Los Angeles County of the 1950s, at that time one of the nation’s leading agricultural producers.... More
It is an old childhood truism that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” In the United States, where speech is protected with a constitutional and social ferocity like... More
We're only now beginning to get cartoons about Donald Trump being shot at a political rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, but last week there were plenty of cartoons highlighting the divisive nature of our country... More
Making Sense By Michael Reagan Being far away from home in Iceland and Britain for the last two weeks was perfect timing. Just as President Biden was proving to the whole country that he’s incapable... More
We in the press are rightly questioning President Joe Biden’s fitness for a second term. I believe he has stayed in the game too long, the way Willie Mays did in 1973 after his skills... More
Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Just because there are trained professionals dealing with the infrastructure, logistics and marketing of the Summer Olympics, it doesn’t let the rest of us off the hook. To fulfill our obligations... More
“If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?” “C++.” It’s a classic programming joke. The humor is ironic: language skills are less important than technological ones. Humor, I’m told, doesn’t... More
Last week, Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat , author of "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," commented that “one of the most alarming things” about “Project 2025” is the blatant admission that Donald Trump did not accomplish everything... More
The most critical nexus in the free market is the transactions that occur when willing sellers and interested buyers meet. One does not usually look to the federal government to resolve concerns that the costs... More
As our country goes to pot, I find myself more focused on personal matters, such as this hopeful item I read on MSN.com: Researchers have identified a molecule called osteopontin, which is a potential game-changer... More
As I’ve done for every Fourth of July since the 1976 bicentennial, I settled down last week to watch my favorite patriotic movie: “1776.” The music is as familiar as it is delightful, the actors... More
