by John L Micek

Dolce vita! Celebrating Columbus Day all month

I grew up calling myself “Italian.” I never used “Italian-American,” partly because it’s fairly obvious that I am American and also because I didn’t want any grief from the tedious people who say things like “Why do you hyphenate yours..

October 6, 2025

MAGA has perfected the unrepentant lie

Politicians have been lying since the dawn of our formerly vibrant democracy. Random examples abound. John Adams and his pamphleteering surrogates said that Thomas Jefferson if elected would shut down all the churches. JFK tried to pump up his anti-..

October 5, 2025

Shutdown circus: Top ten cartoons of the week

What's left to say about the government shutdown and our broken politics in the nation's capital? Because Republicans and Democrats can't get together to accomplish the most basic task of keeping the federal lights on, tens of thousands of government..

October 2, 2025

Trump is unique among presidents

Even President Donald Trump's millions of critics cannot deny one central aspect of his character that has kept him at the forefront of U.S. presidential politics for more than a decade: Trump takes all questions, even from the most hostile reporter..

Game on

We should replace all political debates with a high-stakes game of Twister. It would be highly entertaining and significantly more representative of the candidates’ positions. Hear me out. Political debates are both dull and stuffy. Or maybe it’..

Shut down the shutdown hysteria

Making Sense By Michael Reagan It's almost like the news media is trying to get us to hide under our beds in fear. From CNN to USA Today to Fox and beyond, all we hear is, “There's a shutdown! There’s a shutdown!” Of course there’s a bloody ..

Kamala Harris opens up

It appears no one was more taken aback over Donald Trump's victory than former Vice President Kamala Harris, whose tight political circle had been enraptured with confidence on election night. “It says a lot about how traumatized we both were by w..

Ready for the real Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Unless you’ve been living in a van down by the river, you’ve doubtless endured a “Saturday Night Live” PR blitz over the past year. First came the October 2024 movie “Saturday Night,” dramatizing the minutes befor..

October 1, 2025

Many high-profile killings done by young white men, but why?

The other night on CNN, there was a discussion about the troubling commonality between the people who are committing so many of the tragic shooting incidents over the last months. The first person who tried to murder Trump was a young white man. The..

September 30, 2025

Sinclair still remains a font of Trump propaganda

Lest we be tempted to applaud the Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s Friday decision to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air in cities like Seattle and St. Louis and Tulsa and Birmingham and Little Rock and Roanoke and Washington D.C. - thus lifting its bl..

September 29, 2025

Data privacy? What data privacy?

Ring. Ring. “Hello, this is Tom.” “We know who you are, Tom.” “Who is this? How’d you get my smartphone number?” “Your personal details are everywhere, Tom — public records, websites and apps you’ve downloaded.” “I didn’t g..

Putting the Lord’s Prayer into practice

Making Sense By Michael Reagan After watching the spiritually uplifting and politically momentous memorial service for Charlie Kirk last Sunday in Phoenix, I suddenly realized something. I now know three great people who actually lived the Lord's Pr..

September 26, 2025

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