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For the last 13 years my Thursdays have been Michael Reagan days. It’s going to be hard to get used to not hearing his voice.

My wife’s experience with the postal clerk might explain why some of the Christmas presents we sent or were expecting to arrive never showed up.

Ironically, it turns out that the tragedy at Bondi Beach has hurt the gun controllers’ hopeless cause.
The president boasted that his drill-baby-drill energy policies had brought gasoline prices down “nicely,” as he said, and he sold his audience on the sweet benefits of his “Big Beautiful Bill” that Congress passed in July.
It will never interview the loved ones of the 80,000 Americans who were killed last year by drugs and ask if they approve of what Trump and Hegseth are doing.

The whole Epstein thing has been a farce from Day 1. It’s all about partisan gotcha politics.
We can cheer the end of this shutdown. But it’s not going to change how the government or the airlines work.
It could be that the filibuster has run its course and deserves to be nuked. But whatever its future, its greatest lesson to politicians should be, “Be very careful what you wish for.”

Zohran Mamdani is 100 percent socialist — and far more radical than his hero, Bernie Sanders.
As usual, the liberal media were too busy attacking Trump personally to offer perspective, history or political balance.

It’s a shame Trump can’t use his negotiating skills to repair the damage Democrats have done to hurt my home state of California and home city of Los Angeles.
Trump and his boundless energy stopped the killing and destruction in Gaza.
Shutting down the federal government for a few days or even weeks doesn’t seriously affect the lives or the livelihoods of most Americans.
When Erica Kirk forgave her husband’s assassin on Sunday, she also was honoring God.
I’ve never had the death of somebody like Kirk affect me like this.

I don’t think there’s anything funny about a president getting shot or wishing and hoping a president is dead.
Too many parents won’t face up to the fact that their kids are mentally ill.

It was just as well that we didn’t hear what the world’s most famous leaders said or promised to each other behind closed doors.
We’ll find out soon whether our dealmaker-in-chief’s trip was a waste of jet fuel or a breakthrough that leads to an immediate ceasefire and a permanent peace settlement.