Have you ever been around someone who has a bad case of gas, but always finds ways to blame the noxious fumes on those around them? Democrats are masters of the “whoever smelt it, dealt it” game, which is really nothing more than psychological projection... more

Thank goodness St. Patrick’s Day is upon us. Our country is in need of some Irish humor about now. With all the vitriol in our politics these days, we could use more brotherly love - which reminds me of the joke about McAlister. One Saturday night, he ordered three pints at the pub. ... more

I’ve often said media bias is not what they tell you, it’s what they don’t. There’s no truer example than the Trumptap scandal. After President Trump tweeted that he’d been wiretapped by the Obama administration, the mainstream media had a meltdown. The same media that had been beating the drum of an unfounded Russia conspiracy derided Trump’s claim as “false” and “baseless.” The scary part is they all knew that it wasn’t... more

Help! There’s suddenly a teenager in the Tyree house! Yes, my son Gideon just turned 13. He’s a good kid with a bright future, but sometimes the inevitable “attitude” shows up. I know that many teenagers are creative, hardworking and respectful of their elders; but I still have worries about the coming years. Teens have always faced a mountain of changes, responsibilities and temptations – and the pace is only accelerating... more

Just because a policy invokes the word “merit” does not make it meritorious. Donald Trump’s call Tuesday night for a “merit-based” immigration system is not new; indeed, it is already part of our immigration law. It’s been promoted for years by some Republicans, Democrats and, most notably, employers in Silicon Valley... more

What is up with the Democrats’ obsession with Russia? With each new day, a new Russian conspiracy theory surfaces. The Democrats’ latest Russian conspiracy is so terrifying, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says it’s giving him a “knot” in the pit of his stomach. A knot, because Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn’t live in a bubble as a senator. Rather, the former Alabama senator did what senators sometimes do and met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak... more

The Washington Post headline caught my attention: “Federal workers grow increasingly nervous about Trump’s proposed budget cuts.” That’s a headline that would surely make George Washington smile. He appointed three commissioners who named America’s then-new capital city for him in 1791. They also called its site the Territory of Columbia, which Congress renamed as the District of Columbia in 1871... more

My mother’s favorite supermarket is undergoing a mysterious “repeal and replace” operation with its senior discount program. Of course nerves are on edge. Senior discounts used to be a kindly gesture to help out struggling “fixed income” elders and reward loyalty; but in recent decades they have stirred up jealousy and made businessmen fear they’ve created an immortal monster... more

I must admit that I was determined not to watch the Oscars this year. Like many of you, I had grown weary of awards shows that turned into Trump-bashing festivals. Traditionally, my wife and I have watched the Oscars from red carpet to Best Picture. She coaxed me into watching the red carpet broadcast with the promise that when it turned political we would turn it off. Next thing I knew, we were watching the opening number of the Oscars... more

“Science advances one funeral at a time.” – Nobel Physics Prize winner Max Planck Democrats, the self-proclaimed “party for the middle class,” raise the middle-class cost of living by raising energy prices with their regulatory meddling. Regulations cost consumers $1.8 trillion per year, which means higher bills for utilities, gas and transportation for the average person... more

We’re all well acquainted with the fake news phenomenon - the Trumpian sewage that’s routinely pumped into the brains of the dumb and numb. But the good news is, Facebook has started to fight back, working with a coalition of fact-based media outlets... more

Liberals constantly stake a claim to some religion-free moral high ground, which is laughable considering liberalism’s ideology is immoral at its core. Since November of last year, leftists have been too blinded by inane hatred for Trump to see the irony... more

Americans have way too much stuff. According to the American Psychological Association, Americans “own twice as many cars per person, eat out twice as often and enjoy endless other commodities that weren’t around” in 1957 - “big-screen TVs, microwave ovens, SUVs and handheld wireless devices, to name a few.”... more

No matter what you think of Donald J. Trump, you got to admit he’s a cracker-jack salesman with an uncanny gift for manipulating the mainstream media like a three-armed rental clown juggling pin-pulled grenades on an express elevator to hell. Every single day something he touches starts smoking. You’ve heard of the Midas Touch; Trump has the Hades Touch. His very being is constructed to strike the flint that shoots a spark towards the tetchy kindling he calls staff... more

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” – William Shakespeare. The story went viral, so you’ve likely heard of the 74-year-old Texas man whose death emboldened his embittered daughter (against the advice of the funeral director) to post a scathing online obituary that catalogued his myriad shortcomings as a father and human being... more

Reality aside, whether or not something is actually happening in the minds of the public depends, in large part, on the media coverage. That may sound strange but it’s true. For example, ice has been melting and reforming in the Arctic for millions of years. It wasn’t until 1979 when satellite technology advanced to a point that we could see it that it became big news. That news coverage changed the perception, but it did not change the reality... more

Yes, there needs to be an investigation, but not necessarily of General Mike Flynn. Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware and Chuckie Schumer of New York demand to know when President Trump knew what he knew and when did he know whatever he knew about General Mike Flynn’s conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak... more

As a young journalist I experienced Watergate at the ABC newsroom in New York, naively assuming that our days would always be filled with startling revelations from secret sources about issues so big they could topple a presidency. There was no Internet, no cable-TV news, yet the pace of things was almost as frenetic as today. We’d listen for bells on the teletype machines, signaling that new developments were at hand... more

Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade is now singing with the angels. It’s not that Roe, whose real name was Norma McCorvey, did anything to deserve spending eternity in heaven. No one has. Not even Mother Teresa. We’re all as broken as McCorvey when we compare ourselves to a holy God... more

Newspaper editorial cartoons are disappearing when they are most needed. My own cartoons often used to appear in my local Los Angeles Daily News - not anymore. The Daily News and about a dozen associated, conservative-leaning papers surrounding Los Angeles, eliminated their traditional, daily spot for an editorial cartoon, running only one cartoon in their Sunday editions; these papers now have no editorial page at all on Mondays and Saturdays. ... more