by John L Micek

Santa slays: Top ten cartoons of the week

Two weeks out from Christmas, Santa Claus is already taking over the country's op-ed pages. Our list of most-reprinted cartoons this week is dominated by St. Nick, including two gut-busters drawn by Dave Whamond. One is a funny riff on the Epstein Fi..

December 11, 2025

How to save the Post Office

The more things change at the U.S. Postal Service, the more that they stay the same, unfortunately. The volume of mail moving through the system continues to drop, yet the size of the workforce, thanks to a bad decision by former Postmaster General ..

A bill to cure Trump Derangement Syndrome

Within my immediate family, the Trump Derangement Syndrome team outnumbers the MAGAs by an 8-1 ratio. Some on the Trump Derangement Syndrome squad resemble retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi in their passionate anti-Trump rhetoric. After calling President T..

The salesman in chief makes his pitch

Making Sense By Michael Reagan President Trump kicked off his “Affordability Tour” this week in Pennsylvania. The liberal media immediately blamed him for not already making prices fall after 10 months, but that’s OK. He’s doing exactly what..

Democrats and Republicans actually agree on something

Given all the political drama that has saturated the nation the last few years, it should hardly come as a revelation the heated rhetoric dominating the public discourse has alarmed many Americans. A Gallup poll released December 3 revealed a majori..

December 10, 2025

Viva Las Vegas

I am writing this 35,000 feet above the ground and going at 300 mph. Hopefully I complete this column before I reach home or my editor’s deadline, whichever comes first. I’m on a flight from Las Vegas to Newark, finishing a vacation. When vacati..

Could there be fewer ‘less fortunate’ next Christmas?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Forty-something years ago, my parents and I created an indelible Christmas memory (although for years I misremembered which ABC Sunday Night Movie I missed because of the event). Operating in the basement of a former retail s..

On occasion of her birthday it’s time to go from A to Z

My mother used to tell me that I was incapable of having an unexpressed thought, which was her adorable way of saying I talked too much. But Lucy was right. Rarely do I formulate an opinion that I do not end up sharing with at least a few other peop..

December 9, 2025

The 25th Amendment has been rendered meaningless

Imagine your boss at work were to doze off in the middle of meetings, waking up just long enough to spew racist insults at an entire minority group (“garbage!”) before reconnecting with dreamland. Or was notorious for sliming women as “stupid�..

What 90 years of Harvard research says about happiness

Wealth, fame and success still don’t make us happy — but strong relationships do. That has been the consistent message from the Harvard Study of Adult Development — the longest-running scientific study of adult life in the world. The study beg..

December 8, 2025

Christmas rush: Top ten cartoons of the week

Feeling festive yet? It's hard to escape the suffocating grasp of Christmas, which seems to show up earlier and earlier this year. No wonder editors flocked to download Pat Bagley's funny cartoon about a Thanksgiving turkey getting hooked off the sta..

December 4, 2025

Exposing the liberal media’s sloppy hoaxes

Making Sense By Michael Reagan The old legacy media has not just become irrelevant, it doesn’t inform us anymore. It disinforms. Two fresh examples of the mainstream media’s permanent get-Trump bias came this week, courtesy of the New York Times..

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