Recent Columns
May 2, 2024
by Daryl Cagle
School protests have dominated the headlines this week, as demonstrators have clashed with police at universities across the country attempting to voice their opposition to Israel's war in Gaza. There was also South Dakota Gov...
May 2, 2024
by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan What a good week it should have been for Republicans. The protestors demanded their schools condemn Israel’s invasion of Gaza, come out in support of Palestinians or divest themselves of any Israeli investments...
May 2, 2024
by Dick Polman
Way back when I was a boy, the U. Supreme Court was so revered as an institution that my fourth-grade teacher required us to learn the names of all nine members...
May 2, 2024
by Joe Guzzardi
Last week, amid nationwide student protesting that threatened Jewish students and effectively shut down college campuses, twenty-seven Republican senators sent Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona a letter urgin..
May 1, 2024
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Remember the scene where Allen’s character Alvy was stuck in line at the movies, subjected to the pompous blathering of a pseudo-intellectual?..
May 1, 2024
by Alexandra Paskhaver
If you want to see a flying whale, go to the Natural History Museum in London. That’s because it’s dead. Right when you enter the museum, you see that enormous skeleton suspended from the ceiling: a whole blue whale, or what’s left of it...
April 30, 2024
by Elwood Watson
To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. The result was a public relations disaster, shortly after which both Gay and Magill resigned...
April 29, 2024
by Christine Flowers
John F.. I have always been fascinated with people who find within themselves the ability to defy expectations, anger their presumed allies and follow their own conscience...
April 29, 2024
by Tom Purcell
The National Day of Prayer is on May 2nd this year. Like a lot of people, I don't pray until things go sour or I have some daunting challenge heading my way. I pray every April 15 — after cursing — when a large sum of taxes is due...
April 26, 2024
by Daryl Cagle
Editors were big fans of Chris Weyant this week, who had our top three most-reprinted cartoons. Weyant and a couple of cartoonists riffed on the new movie "Civil War," which has obviously political undertones for our divided nation...
April 25, 2024
by Peter Roff
Across the states, America's public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb...
April 25, 2024
by Dick Polman
Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off...
April 25, 2024
by Michael Reagan
Making Sense by Michael Reagan Another week, another round of Republicans attacking each other. The Republican controlled House, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, passed the Ukraine funding bill after what seemed like years of delays by a vote of 311-112...
April 24, 2024
by Tom Purcell
Editor’s note: A version of this column was published in 2017. Some girls are spending $2,000 or more on their custom prom dresses. I offer some advice to 2024 promgoers, based on my own prom experience in 1980...
April 24, 2024
by Alexandra Paskhaver
Just because I think littering should be punishable by death doesn't mean I'm an unreasonable person. I smile when dogs get on public transport. I also have a freshly-oiled chainsaw in my garage...
April 24, 2024
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just as it usually applies the brakes to abrupt municipal name changes in the real world. Neither did my father. We can’t change!..
April 23, 2024
by Elwood Watson
For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. But it's nothing new for the Grand Old Party...
April 22, 2024
by Carl Golden
Month after month, poll after poll, a majority of Americans express their dissatisfaction with the Biden administration over virtually every issue of concern – domestic and foreign...
April 22, 2024
by Tom Purcell
Boy, is technology making us ruder. You see, long before the era of nasty Facebook posts and mean tweets — long before people had such an easy means to be rude to each other — there was a much tamer version of email rudeness...
April 22, 2024
by Christine Flowers
John Paul II once stated that “there can be no rule of law … unless citizens and especially leaders are convinced that there is no freedom without truth...
April 19, 2024
by Joe Guzzardi
Add California Governor Gavin Newsom’s name to the list of prominent elected officials who blatantly lied about their personal histories. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed to have been a Vietnam war combatant...
April 18, 2024
by Daryl Cagle
The cost of everything, from gas to groceries, remains stubbornly high. Home prices skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic, and inflation fears forced interest rates to rise...
April 18, 2024
by Dick Polman
How sad it is that few Americans have heard of Bob Graham, who died Tuesday at 87, because this guy was truly a profile in courage when we needed it most...
April 18, 2024
by Michael Reagan
Making Sense By Michael Reagan “Death to Israel! �� It sounds like something you’d hear chanted by hundreds of brainwashed young people in the streets of Tehran...
April 17, 2024
by Elwood Watson
For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster...
April 17, 2024
by Alexandra Paskhaver
England! Glorious England! I’ve been in London for the past month, officially as part of a study abroad program. When traveling, the usual questions come up. What’s the currency exchange rate?..
April 17, 2024
by Danny Tyree
Tyrades! Bathroom mirrors that initiate telehealth conferences based on your complexion or facial tics...
April 15, 2024
by Christine Flowers
I’m pretty sure that the number of people who are mourning the death of OJ Simpson can fit into the trunk of the smallest car Hertz ever rented. As a human being, I am repulsed by the fact that he treated women like a punching bag...
April 15, 2024
by Tom Purcell
"Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” is on April 25th, and I think we should try something different this year: Let's take our daughters and sons to grandma's...