Author: Michael Reagan

On: February 2: of this year, thousands will gather at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., to watch the Seattle Seahawks battle the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. As the athletes take the field and the fans cheer, they will be oblivious to the tragedy unfolding around them in dark hotel rooms across East Rutherford. […]

Let me get this straight. For five years Barrack Obama has been president. For five years he’s demonstrated — with amazing consistency — that he has no clue what we need to get out of the ditch and back on the road to real economic recovery. He’s repeatedly demonstrated that he can’t work with a […]

The whole world mourns Nelson Mandela. Rightly. But, as usual, some politically and historically challenged liberals have seen the passing of a great man of history as a chance to take more cheap potshots at Ronald Reagan. One human rights attorney, Gay McDougall, made a fool of herself on “Good Morning America.” She claimed that […]

Trust ain’t what it used to be in America. Back in 1972, when the folks conducting the General Social Survey first asked a sampling of Americans if they trusted their countrymen, about half said they did. Last year, when the same research outfit asked the same set of questions, only a third of our fellow […]

It’s been an up and down, rough and tumble, crazy, sad, frustrating year for America the Beautiful so far. As usual, except for the parade of hurricanes, tornados, fires and floods, most of the trouble and strife in our lives came from the professional nincompoops and evildoers in Washington. The Obama regime and its congressional […]

Come on, Oprah. You’re way too smart to be this stupid. When are you going to get off this kick about Barack Obama being disrespected more than previous presidents just because he is a black man? It’s getting embarrassing, Oprah. You’re one of America’s great talents and greatest success stories. You’re a self-made billionaire, an […]

America finally understands Obamacare. Day after day, the president’s signature legislative achievement is proving to be the federal fiasco everyone predicted it would be. Every Democrat — including the president’s liberal cheerleaders in the media, the Democrats in Congress and Bill Clinton — knows it’s become a major political disaster for their party. President Obama […]

A lot of people are asking what the heck is wrong with the Republican Party. What isn’t? That’s no joke. Not for the GOP, not for the country. The party of Ronald Reagan is getting weaker by the week. Republican failure, Republican infighting, Republicans caving on their principles — it’s a grim soap opera, and […]

“Waaaaa! You’re not playing fair!” “Waaaaa! You’re going to bankrupt America!” “Waaaaa! You guys started it!” The crybabies in Washington are at it again. Arguing, name-calling and throwing heated rhetoric around like “extortion” and “blow the whole thing up,” our so-called leaders are acting like out-of-control little kids in a sandbox. They haven’t begun hitting […]

Let the crisis continue. Let the standoff between the Democrats and the Republicans over Obamacare drag on for as many weeks or months as necessary to wake up the American people. Let millions struggle daily to sign up online for the government health care that they — but not their elected representatives in Congress — […]

I get it. I understand Obamacare is a total crock. I know it’s going to make our current health care system even more expensive, more complicated, more irrational and more socialized than it already is. I know it’s something that needs to be repealed, delayed, defunded, shredded, stomped or killed forever by any legislative means […]

The Idiots Against Guns in the media and Congress overdid it this time. Not wanting to miss a chance to politicize a shooting tragedy, the anti-gun nuts went berserk: Mondaywhen news broke that a man had gone on a rampage at a D.C. naval base and killed 12 people. Long before the facts were known or […]

Did you see the hopeful breaking news about Syria? “Russia takes control of Syrian chemical weapons.” That was the headline I saw on the Daily Kos website. The story quoted Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, announcing that Syria’s chemical weapons, which had been consolidated in one or two locations to allay fears that they might […]

John Kerry put on quite a war dance in the Senate: on Tuesday. The Secretary of State, backed up by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey, went before the Foreign Relations Committee to urge senators to support the newly drafted resolution giving President Obama authorization to use airstrikes in Syria. Kerry made […]

I don’t know who’s more confused about Syria, President Obama or me. With his alleged use of poison gas against his own people, including women and children, Bashar al-Assad of Syria has crossed our president’s famous red line — again. But unlike the last time Assad crossed the president’s red line, this time President Obama […]

There you go again, Hollywood. You’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies. You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a clichéd “message movie.” “Lee Daniels’ […]

Rush Limbaugh fielded a phone call the other day that even he couldn’t answer. “What’s happened to the country I live in?” asked the frustrated woman. “And what do we do now?” The Great Rushbo was understandably flustered. Coming up with a cure for what ails America after five years of Barack Obama and decades […]

In a better world we should never have been subjected to the Zimmerman trial. But politically motivated prosecutors in Florida turned a local tragedy into a race crime, and then the media turned a murder trial into a primetime soap opera. The trial accusing George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin wasn’t about seeking justice. It […]

Overseas the Arab Spring is turning into the Arab Nightmare that everyone but the Obama administration always saw coming. At home the Obama Crew is fighting to socialize all of America’s health care system, strangling the energy industry with new emissions regulations, and being exposed for ordering federal employees to spy on each other. And […]

Will the left ever stop playing the race card? Not in my lifetime, it won’t. The Obama left in this country acts like we’re still living in 1960, when racism was legally, socially and morally sanctioned across the South and elsewhere. Here’s a newsflash, folks. It’s 2013. Racism is not extinct and never will be […]

What the heck is wrong with Mexico? It’s got everything it needs to be a prosperous First World country. It’s got a $1.7 trillion free-market economy — the 12th largest in the world. It’s got 116 million of the hardest working people on the planet. It’s got its own oil, gas, silver and other natural […]

It’s no news to anyone that I disagree strongly with President Obama on just about any issue or policy position you can name. But I’m not the least bit uncomfortable saying I admire something about the president that transcends politics and makes him a role model for every man in America. President Obama is a […]

Jay Leno told his studio audience the other night that President Obama should forget his plans to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay and instead close the IRS. The applause was instantaneous and the laughs were loud and genuine. Most ordinary Americans would have whooped and hollered in favor of Leno’s idea long before […]

Scandal after Obama scandal. Outrage upon Obama outrage. Remember the Benghazi cover-up story? Forget it. It’s been thrown out like last week’s garbage and is now buried deep in the mainstream media’s landfill with previous underreported Obama scandals such as Solyndra and Fast and Furious. The Big Media have fresh Obama outrages to underreport or […]

Yesterday I read an interesting article in Newsweek about the connection between tornadoes and climate change. Newsweek’s story explained how top climate scientists were concerned about several ominous and fundamental changes occurring in Earth’s weather patterns. Evidence that Earth’s climate was changing in the wrong direction, the article said, included a shorter growing season in […]

Remember the 1996 movie, “A Time to Kill”? An adaptation of John Grisham’s 1989 legal thriller, it stars Matthew McConaughey as a small-town lawyer in Mississippi who defends a black man who killed the two white racists who had raped his 10-year-old daughter. In his closing arguments McConaughey asks the jury to close their eyes […]

History is one of our greatest teachers. It’s just too bad so many of our young people think history started with the death of Princess Di or the birth of the iPhone. I was painfully reminded of America’s historical illiteracy and the failure of our educational system last week while golfing with a few strangers […]