Author: Michael Reagan

“God bless you, and God bless the Homeland.” It won’t surprise me if that’s how a future President closes one of his “State of the Union ” addresses. The un-American term “the homeland” is taking over America. Everywhere I turn it’s being used to replace the words “country” or “nation” or “the United States.” All […]

Domestic violence just doesn’t happen on elevators. And it’s not just committed by former NFL running backs. But don’t tell that to the people who’ve been calling for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to quit over his fumbling of the Ray Rice case. Based on what’s been on TV all week, you’d think pro football and […]

The Rev. Al Sharpton is getting the right kind of grief. This time it’s not from conservatives for being a race hustler who exploits every white-on-black killing to raise money for his civil rights group National Action Network or to boost his miserable ratings on MSNBC.  This time Sharpton is being criticized by other blacks – […]

Why have the protests and riots lasted so long in Ferguson?: Why have out-of-town agitators and opportunists like the Communist Revolutionary Party and the New Black Panthers flocked to a St. Louis suburb?:  Why, 12 days after Michael Brown was shot to death by a policeman, do the good people of Ferguson who want to see […]

Once again Israel is being forced to defend itself from the terrorists who run Gaza.: Once again Israel has had to drop bombs and send tanks and ground troops into Gaza to blow up tunnels and destroy the missile sites Hamas has been using to rain hundreds of rockets down on Israel’s farms and cities.:  And […]

Despite the media play Chicago gets, it isn’t the official “Murder Capital of the U.S.A.”That unhappy distinction – based on the murder rate per 100,000 people, not on the number of actual dead people on the streets – belongs to poor, under-populated Flint, Mich. Chicago gets the bad rap – and the attention of the […]

Here’s a modest proposal for solving the “Children’s Invasion” on our southwestern borders.Next time a planeload of “unaccompanied alien children” from Honduras or Guatemala is being dispersed to their relatives in the U.S., the pilot should divert the flight and land at Ronald Reagan National Airport in downtown Washington. If the politicians in DC were […]

Hillary Clinton called the Hobby Lobby decision “deeply disturbing.”The White House reacted like the world had just ended. Harry Reid promised that Democrats in Congress would “fight to preserve women’s access to contraceptive coverage and keep bosses out of the examination room.”All this liberal hysteria followed the Supreme Court’s ruling: on Monday: that for-profit employers who have […]

Who’s that gray-haired old guy in the Oval Office? What happened to the hopeful young man who promised all those great things in 2008? What’s happened to America under Barack Obama? Our economy is still mired in a recession he still blames on George W. Bush. We’ve got 100 million able-bodied countrymen and women who […]

Nearly 5,000 of our fine men and women died in Iraq. Who’s going to explain Iraq to their loved ones now? Who’s going to explain why, if it was so important that we had to go to Iraq in 2003, we just walked away? Iraq is back in our living rooms every night. Only this […]

Hillary, you go girl. Run as hard as you can for president. Play hardball to get your party’s nomination. Do whatever dirty party tricks it takes to knock off what’s-her-name up in Massachusetts, or what’s-his-name out in Montana. Compared to you, they’re a pair of minor league batboys – two lefty Democrats who can’t hit […]

Here in this little French village of Sainte Mere Eglise they remember D-Day.Sainte Mere Eglise, as students of history and World War II movies know, became the first town to be liberated from Hitler’s armies when hundreds of American paratroopers fell from the sky early on the morning of June 6, 1944. The people of […]

You all know who he is.But I’m not going to repeat the name of the 22-year-old crazy person who stabbed or shot six young people to death near the UC Santa Barbara campus last week. I’m not going to quote from his insane 137-page “manifesto,” either.It just spews his pathetic reasons for why he planned […]

Behind the green curtain is where my world began to end. It was where my innocence was forever washed away in a porcelain pan filled with developer. Grainy images brought into strong relief on white paper that would become forever etched on my soul.It all began at the age of eight when my mother enrolled […]

Stop listening to so much conservative talk radio.: Take a break. Watch a cartoon. Go to a ballgame.: Do anything else for a while but think, talk or argue about politics.:  Do what I do and listen to country music instead. I guarantee you won’t be so angry all the time.: That’s what I told a bunch of […]

President Obama – three weeks late – has done something to help rescue those Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist terrorists.He’s sending a team of military officials and hostage negotiators to help the hapless Nigerian government track down and retrieve the 223 girls. The girls will almost certainly be sold to sex traffickers or kept […]

It was nice to be away from politics for a week.: It was even nicer to be in the great city of Boston for six days to celebrate the running of the 118th Boston Marathon.: Watching the race with a million people – and meeting so many wonderful Bostonians – was an incredible experience.:  A year after […]

Be careful, Pennsylvania people.: You can’t afford to blow it this fall.: Your great state is, I’m sorry to say, already not so great when it comes to fiscal solvency.:  Don’t make it worse by dumping your Republican governor, Tom Corbett.: Despite the Marcellus Shale boom that’s turned Pennsylvania into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, the Keystone […]

Watching the president doing his ObamaCare victory lap in the Rose Garden the other day made me feel so sick to my stomach I had to call my doctor. But seeing the mainstream media join the celebration like a pack of liberal lapdogs made me wonder if I was watching a channel from North Korea. […]

Come on guys, let’s start focusing on the important stuff like ObamaCare, Ukraine and winning the Senate. All this outrage in the conservative media about how much money it’s costing for Barack Obama’s trip to Belgium and for Michelle Obama’s travels to China is just a waste of time. Yes, the cost of their trips, […]

On city streets throughout America a battle is being waged for the soul of humanity, and it is taking place right in front of our eyes. As darkness descends, the fading light lays bare an open wound in the fabric of society. The most vulnerable among us are being offered up as prey for those […]

Talk about March Madness. The 31st is the deadline for signing up for ObamaCare, which has made the buying and selling of health insurance one of the most complicated, deceptive disasters in the history of Big Government. The president could always whip out his Hugo Chavez pen again at the last minute and re-write another […]

I disagree with some of Rand Paul’s more libertarian positions, especially on social issues. And I’m certainly not endorsing him or anyone else to be the Republican nominee for president at this time. But Sen. Paul of Kentucky did two things recently that won my favor. He showed the 2,500 conservative activists at the CPAC […]

Mr. Putin’s quick takeover of the Crimean peninsula was no surprise to me. Neither was the Obama administration’s half-butted reaction: on Tuesday. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that to show our support for Poland and the Baltic states after Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, the we will train more Polish pilots and expand our role in […]

Someone better send John Kerry a high school geography textbook. Our brilliant Secretary of State doesn’t seem to know that California is about two-thirds desert. Based on his recent statements about the cause of my home state’s 13-month drought, Kerry doesn’t know anything about California’s history or climate, either. He thinks the state’s current drought […]

Is Bill Clinton still president? Has he been caught fooling around with another intern in the Oval Office? Has Paula Jones filed another lawsuit? Is Hillary Clinton still standing by her bad man? I must be in the 1990s again. Why else would I have seen Kathleen Willey on TV talking about Bill Clinton repeatedly […]

I was thinking of not doing a column this week. Now that the White House has told us we shouldn’t have to keep a full-time job because of health care, I thought I’d do just one column a month. I want to cut back my work hours so I can qualify for some of those […]

In the darkest recesses of our minds we have always known that monsters exist. It is only when we are involuntarily thrust into an unfolding human tragedy that shocks our senses and devastates our hearts that we truly acknowledge their presence. Our collective eyes have been opened by the discovery of monsters lurking at Penn […]

I admit I dozed off once or twice. And for the first half-hour I thought I was watching a rerun of last year’s State of the Union address. But I hung in there and: Tuesday: night turned out to be one of President Obama’s funniest addresses yet. He didn’t tell any jokes, not on purpose anyway. But […]