“This isn’t my father’s Secret Service.” That’s what I immediately tweeted in response to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Little did I know. ...

Who do the liberal ladies of “The View” think they’re kidding? Last week, Joy Behar and her ragged troop of pretend political pundits were again acting terrified by the specter of Donald Trump — aka, Adolf Hitler 2.0 — returning to power this fall. ...

It was a good week for the Reagan family. Not so much for the Biden clan. On Wednesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where my father is buried, there was a fine ceremony to mark the 20th year of his passing and recall the conservative principles that powered his domestic and foreign successes...

Mark my words. Democrats will be sorry on Nov. 5 because of what they did this week in New York City. They and their friends in the liberal media can whoop it up and high-five each all they want over the guilty verdicts Donald Trump got on Thursday in his hush money trial.

We can argue forever about left-right politics and why the country is going to ruin. But it is Memorial Day weekend. Let’s forget the endless political warfare being waged in Washington, D.C.

What’s happening on CNN and MSNBC is disgusting, but not surprising. Some of their so-called pundits and reporters have been downright giddy while watching Donald Trump on trial in New York City. They think that the New York DA’s office is doing God’s work, not Joe Biden’s. ...

What a good week it should have been for Republicans. Dozens of campuses from UCLA to Columbia University were being wracked by pro-Palestinian protestors who set up “Gaza Solidarity” encampments, spewed antisemitic hate speech, took over buildings and intimidated Jewish students. ...

Another week, another round of Republicans attacking each other. This time it was over the Ukraine funding bill that was passed by the House and ultimately became part of the big military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that Congress passed this week.

I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington. As the GOP proved again in the House last week, it’s incapable of accomplishing anything of importance. ...

Lent is over – and I’m kind of sorry. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I observe Lent every year. The Britannica defines Lent as a solemn period of penitential preparation in Christian churches before Easter that provides 40 days for fasting and abstinence in imitation of Christ’s fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry. ...

Last week must have been especially rough for the people still living in the contaminated eastern Ohio town of East Palestine. On Tuesday, only hours after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Harbor was knocked down by an out-of-control container ship, they had to watch President Joe Biden come on national TV and promise to “move heaven and earth” to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge “as soon as humanly possible.” ...

You’d never expect a tax revolt to start in the blue California city of Oakland. But a bunch of angry, overtaxed and underprotected local business people there have said, “Enough is enough.” The owner of a restaurant has called on other Oakland small businesses to stop paying local taxes until their city starts doing what it should be doing — protecting them from a recent wave of robberies and thefts. ...

Republicans are never going to impeach Joe Biden. I wish more Republicans would beat that fact into their skulls. Just as Democrats weren’t able to impeach Donald Trump because they didn’t control the Senate, Republicans are never going to impeach Biden for the same reason. ...

A miracle occurred Tuesday in California's U.S. Senate primary race. In a deep Blue state where Democrat voters outnumber Republicans 2-1, Steve Garvey, the former L.A. Dodger star, ran against three Democrats and came in a close second to Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff...

The Democrats are trying to put Donald Trump in jail. The Republicans are trying to put Joe Biden in jail — along with the rest of his extended political crime family. Both sides think the only way they can win is by putting their opponent in jail. ...

Videos of Joe Biden not knowing where he is or saying he just met with a French president who died 25 years ago are not so funny anymore. They're tragic. And I can't help feeling embarrassed and sorry for the president. It angers me to see him dodder out in public almost every other day and make a mumbling and confused fool of himself...

It's a good thing Donald Trump doesn't own one of the Super Bowl teams. If he did, people would already be rioting in the streets of Las Vegas, demanding that the NFL call off next weekend's big game. The liberal media would be cheering on the rioters, as usual...

Our belated and weak response to the missile attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea by Houthi militants has been embarrassing. But that's what happens when there's no strong leader in the White House. Watching Joe Biden and his inept state department screw up everything they try to do in Ukraine and the Middle East reminds me of something I saw my father do in his first year in office...

Having a happy New Year this year won't be easy in California. The state is a fiscal, social and economic train wreck that just keeps on wrecking. As we roll into 2024, we've learned we're looking at a projected budget deficit of $68 billion. The Los Angeles Times explained the cause of California's huge shortfall last week in its usual biased way — without pinning blame on the Democrats in Sacramento whose policies are responsible for it...

This week America said its final goodbye to Sandra Day O'Connor. The first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court was eulogized at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday by President Joe Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice O'Connor was appointed in 1981 by my father, served nearly a quarter century and died Dec. 1 at age 93...

Monica Crowley summed up the sad state of the Republican Party perfectly last week in a single tweet. Following the House's 311-114 vote Dec. 1 to expel the lying GOP weirdo and future criminal defendant George Santos, she wrote: "Republicans bounced George Santos...

Here in sunny Los Angeles, it's raining. It's too bad it didn't rain real hard Nov. 11. It might have helped firefighters put out the enormous fire under the 10 Freeway near downtown before the heat weakened the pillars and forced the highway to be closed...

The world is nothing but murders, massacres and the threat of war. It's gotten so bad, you wake up and ask, "Who died overnight?" Or "Whose rockets and bombs hit who this time?" I'll go out on a limb here and blame most of the world's turmoil and tragedy on President Joe Biden and his handlers...

The world is going to hell and taking America's wealth, military power and geopolitical influence with it. Thanks to the terrorists of Hamas, we're slowly being pulled deeper into a war in Israel that could set the whole Middle East on fire. And remember the bloody war in Ukraine?...

It turns out that some of our smartest college kids aren't just stupid about things like microaggressions and gender pronouns. The reaction on many campuses to the slaughter of innocent Israelis by Hamas terrorists last week showed that many students are just as a stupid about Israel and the rest of the world...

OK, my fellow Republicans, you got rid of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Eight of you joined with every Democrat in the House of Representatives -- the only part of the federal government we control -- to vote McCarthy out, 216-210. In the process you threw the House into chaos, killed any hope of passing important bills anytime soon and made yourselves the laughing stock of the political world...

From the first dumb question to the abrupt ending that caught everyone by surprise, the GOP presidential primary debate produced by the Fox Business channel was a total disaster. I know. I was there Wednesday night -- in Row 5 of the Air Force One pavilion in the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif...

Too bad Donald Trump won't attend the second Republican presidential primary debate next week at the Ronald Reagan Library. His friends and enemies in the media will miss him and the high ratings he automatically generates, but he's leading by a huge margin in the polls and he doesn't need the TV time or media attention...

Thank God for Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana. I wish every major television and radio network in the country had covered what the smart and colorful Republican did in the Senate this week. As part of a hearing looking into the alleged threat to freedom posed by parents who want to have sexually explicit gay and trans books removed from their school libraries, Kennedy bravely quoted some choice excerpts from two of the books...

Almost a hundred years ago, the great American author Sinclair Lewis wrote a political novel called "It Can't Happen Here". The 1935 book was a warning that what was happening then in Europe — the rise of fascism and Nazism — could come to America in the form of a Hitler-type politician who gets elected and then becomes a dictator...

Seriously folks. Maybe we Republicans better stop banging on Old Joe Biden for the serious cognitive issues he obviously has. Unless we hold the players on our own team responsible for their cognitive issues, we have to stop harping on the obvious mental declines of President Biden, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Diane Feinstein, my home state's ancient senator...

Half the country has no idea why the front page of Thursday's New York Post was so hilarious. That's because, thanks to the liberal media, half of the country still has no idea who Hunter Biden is, or why he is in trouble for raking in millions for his extended family from foreign business owners by selling access to his father Joe's "brand" and political influence...

"In the eight years that my father was President of the United States I never once sat in the room with business associates and called him on the phone. If I had, the Democrats would have skewered me." When I posted that tweet the other day, it got a huge response...

Here we go again. The first Republican presidential primary debate is less than a month away and the GOP is hellbent on making the same mistake it made in 2015. For its first primary debate back then, Republicans had a herd of medium-caliber presidential wannabes that was so large the party had to split them into two tiers based on their polling numbers...

"Sound of Freedom" is still going strong despite the efforts of the left to kill it. In just three weeks the action-thriller, about a real-life American hero who went to Colombia to rescue one child from child sex traffickers and ended up rescuing 120 children, has racked up more than $100 million in ticket sales...

Don't thank Hollywood for "Sound of Freedom." The movie, about a former Homeland Security agent who goes to Colombia and rescues more than 50 kids from child sex traffickers, is an action-thriller -- a drama. But it is based closely on the true story of Tim Ballard and his personal fight against one of the planet's most evil and profitable criminal activities -- human sex trafficking...

Barack Obama told a good joke the other day. He said he thought that the level of disinformation and misinformation online has gotten so dangerously high in the U.S. that we need to develop "digital fingerprints" so ordinary citizens can tell what's truly true and know who's not telling it...

Oil money, oil money. When you have as much of it as Saudi Arabia has, it can buy a lot of things — including a sacred American sports institution like the PGA. As all of us hackers know, the PGA Tour shocked the golf world last week by announcing it will merge with the LIV Tour, the upstart Saudi-backed professional golf tour that the PGA has been in a bitter legal fight with since last year...

Context. Perspective. Background. It's not news to anyone that the major media consistently fail to provide any of those things when covering the burning political issues of the moment. Take, for example, the compromise the House of Representatives and the White House just made to settle the federal budget and debt-ceiling crisis...

What are you doing to celebrate Memorial Day? How will you honor the soldiers, sailors and airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep America safe, free and great for more than 240 years? My son Cameron, as usual, will take his daughters to a military cemetery and remind them who those fallen soldiers were and why America was worth fighting and dying for...

What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years? If you have swallowed the party line of the Democrats, it was the storming of the Capitol by dangerous Trump "insurrectionists" on Jan. 6, 2021. For more than two years, Democrats and their parrots in the liberal media touted 1/6 as the worst thing that has happened to the United States since 9/11...

AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels. They're also wrecking the country — appliance by appliance. Our washing machines, refrigerators and microwaves have already been made less efficient and more expensive because of new federal standards pushed by fanatical environmentalists who think like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...

Haven't we seen this never-ending story before? It's just that the politics have flipped. When we had Democrats in power in the House, all we heard were bad stories about Donald Trump. All we heard from Democrats and their parrots in the major media was how Trump supposedly broke a bunch of laws and should be impeached, imprisoned or hanged for things like colluding with the Russians, dodging his taxes and golfing too much...

Violent events in the last few days prove how edgy Americans are. A 16-year-old boy who knocked on the wrong door was shot through the glass by a scared old man. A cheerleader was shot because she pulled into the wrong driveway. Another person was shot after she accidentally got in the wrong car at a shopping center...

My governor, Gavin Newsom, has finally found an excuse to get out of the state he's been tyrannizing for the last three years. He's going around to red states like Florida, telling them how they're the ones that are doing everything wrong. While Newsom is AWOL, which actually is a good thing for the overtaxed people of California, the state continues to fall apart...

Everyone knows the felony charges against Donald Trump for paying hush-money to a porn star are ridiculous. Everyone knows that charging Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records was just a slimy political stunt by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg...

We know the whole world has gone crazy. Nowhere has it become more insane than what's been going on in women's collegiate and high school sports. Biological males have been allowed to compete against girls and women in swimming, softball and even weightlifting, which, to people who are not woked out of their minds, is patently unfair to girl and women athletes...

Everyone in the national media last week was worrying about whether Donald Trump was going to be arrested in New York. Not me. In a radio interview with San Diego talk show host Mark Larson, I said I didn't care what was going to happen to Trump. "What I'm really worried about," I said to my old friend, "is the meeting going on in Moscow between the two most dangerous men in the world — Xi and Putin."...

Banking must have been next on the to-do list of the things the Biden administration is planning to destroy. In two years, President Joe Biden and the wrecking crew of crazies, wokesters and career incompetents he has put into his government have screwed up every corner of America...

Donald Trump and a lot of cameras flew into East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday. Yes, it was a typical Trump photo op. Yes, they were his MAGA people. The mostly white working-class town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border has nearly 5,000 souls, and about 70% of them voted for him in 2020...

The problem with young people today is no one teaches them history. If they knew what the East German government did to their Olympic women athletes in the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, they might understand why it's not fair for transgender women to compete against women in sports like swimming, tennis and surfing...

The IRS is so kind. Our most beloved federal agency has delayed until next year a new income-reporting law it has carefully designed to squeeze the last drops of tax revenue out of many of us. The new IRS rule is aimed at millions of self-employed people and small-business people who sell goods or services on places such as eBay, drive part-time for Uber or earn income through social media companies such as Airbnb...

It's a stretch, but I think I know the real reason the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago. We've been told for months that the DOJ ordered a search of Donald Trump's home in Florida because he was not turning over a bunch of classified documents to the National Archives fast enough...

Is Davos over yet? Is it safe to turn on our TVs without being scolded by formerly important environmentalists like old Al Gore or creepy young climate warriors like Greta Thunberg? Not quite (as of writing this column). All the virtuous public talk about stopping climate change, saving the planet and putting the dirty fossil fuel industry out of existence at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Switzerland officially won't end till Friday, Jan. 20...

Don't worry, America. Big Media will never let Joe Biden get away with illegally taking classified documents from the White House in 2016 and stashing them at his office and in his garage next to his Corvette. The ace reporters at liberal places like the New York Times, CNN and NBC are already digging deep into the facts of Biden's mishandling of classified documents...

We don't fight our wars to win anymore. We fight them to get to a stalemate. We've risked untold lives and wasted trillions of dollars to poorly fight wars for decades in places like Afghanistan and Iraq and Vietnam. Then we negotiate and leave. And then the countries where we had been at war quickly revert to the way they were before our soldiers and weapons showed up...

It's time to play the Big Game again in Washington. It's time again for members of Congress to perform one of their most important duties. But instead of passing a federal budget for the coming year, the senators and House members will take a knee and pass what's called a "Continuing Resolution."...

Too bad Paul Whelan is not Black or gay or someone who openly hates America. Too bad he's white, male and a former U.S. Marine. Otherwise, he would not still be rotting in jail in Russia on trumped-up espionage charges. Also otherwise, Whelan would have been the American prisoner in Russia who was exchanged last week by the Biden administration for Viktor Bout, aka "The Merchant of Death"...

Love Trump or hate Trump. Whatever you think about him, you have to admit that the mainstream liberal news media have been doing a round-the-clock colonoscopy on him since the day he said he was running for the presidency. The New York Times, the Washington Post and the rest of the East Coast media complex have also done colonoscopies on his children...

The Republicans won the House. The Democrats kept the Senate. Joe Biden is still pretending to be the president. So how about if we — i.e., the politicians and the news media — dispense with the partisan political junk for a while? How about if we all sit down and try to fix some of the country's chronic crises that we hear about every day but that only keep getting worse?...

DeSantis, Kemp and Abbott. Those governors were not just the Republican Party's brightest stars in this week's disappointing midterms elections. With their smashing victories Tuesday night, they showed us they're the future of the GOP — and the party's best hope for retaking the White House in 2024...

I just called our Realtor. My wife and I just put our house in Los Angeles on the market. We're selling everything except our washer and dryer. Then we're going to buy a really nice tent and move to Encino and live on the street. We'll find a fire hydrant and a long extension cord, hook up the washer and dryer and live happily ever after for free. .....

This week I dug up an amazing -- and scary -- radio commentary my father delivered on Sept. 1, 1976. It was one of about 600 weekly nationally syndicated commentaries he wrote on yellow legal tablets during the late 1970s. It described how he had decided what to say in "a letter to the future" he had been asked to write for a time capsule to be opened in 2076 during the Los Angeles Bicentennial celebration...

Hurricane Ian hadn't slammed into the Florida coast yet and already the idiots were playing politics. The climate scientists on "The View" were somehow trying to blame Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis for Ian because of his skeptical position on global warming...

Well, there goes the U.S. Air Force. The wokesters who have been wrecking our colleges for years with their insane diversity and inclusion codes have infiltrated the Air Force Academy. Cadets there now have to take a training class that includes a slide presentation titled, "Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do."...

Some people over here in the former Colonies are complaining about all the heavy media coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Not me. I like watching history in real time, even if it's coming by satellite from half a world away. I also enjoy seeing all the official pomp and ceremony surrounding the long and loving goodbye that the queen is getting from 99.9% of her British subjects...

In California, a historic heat wave has exposed yet again what big idiots the politicians in Sacramento are. To prevent daily rolling blackouts in Beverly Hills like the ones they have in places such as Ghana, Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked us to not use electricity between 4 and 9 p.m...

How much does President Biden dislike America? Let us count the ways. Last week, our phony uniter-in-chief called about half of the country -- Republicans and all red-hatted supporters of Donald Trump -- semi-fascists. His press secretary -- the person who has the impossible job of trying to clarify, excuse or walk-back Biden's daily gaffes and deranged attacks on his fellow Americans -- said later that the president was not exaggerating by using the political f-word...

The best news of last week for all Americans is that Liz Cheney lost. Big time. Her crushing demise in Wyoming's Republican primary shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone — and she deserved it. Congresswoman Cheney — despite voting with the Trump administration more than 90% of the time — had come down with a politically fatal case of the "I Hate Trump Syndrome."...

If you weren't fearful of government before last week, you should be scared to death by now. This is the United States of America. Not Venezuela. Or is it? Never in our history have we gone after a former president the way the partisans running the Biden administration's FBI and Department of Justice just went after Donald Trump...

I'm a lucky American. Thanks to my wife Colleen's job as a travel agent, in the last two weeks I've been to Europe and back. I was able to tag along with Colleen, as I often do, when she took a group of tourists to France's Bordeaux wine country. While I was gone things looked like they were starting to improve a little at home...

Lots of perplexed Americans are asking the question, "How did we get here?" They ask how is it that a rich, powerful and generally happy country that was chugging along so smoothly in the 21st century has almost overnight become an economic, social and ideological train wreck...

Donald Trump is out there speaking and drawing fired-up crowds in places such as Illinois. It's obvious that he's still the most popular figure and dominant force in the Republican Party. But I'm worried that despite his lasting popularity among most Republicans, he's a liability to the GOP's chances to retake the White House in 2024...

It's been a fabulous week for conservatives, Republicans and millions of ordinary Americans. I cheered all of the Supreme Court's recent blockbusters -- for moral, political and personal reasons. I'm 100% anti-abortion. I believe adults should be free to own and carry guns. I believe there should be more prayer in schools, not less...

I cry to see what's happened to Disney. When I was growing up -- and until not that long ago -- you knew you could trust Disney to make entertaining movies you could take your entire family to see. The Walt Disney Company became rich and powerful by being Hollywood's most family-friendly corporation...

Matthew McConaughey was the star of this week's gun drama in Washington. Two weeks after the slaughter of 19 school children in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, the actor made an emotional appeal for stronger gun control measures. McConaughey got -- and deserved -- praise for much of what he said in the White House briefing room on Tuesday...

Why is it that whenever we dig into the details of a mass shooting we wind up finding nothing but screw ups? Police, schools, mental health officials, parents -- they've all messed up in ways to make mass shootings possible or deadlier. At the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, we learned that police responded within minutes but then stood around for almost an hour in the hallway while the shooter was barricaded in a classroom and still killing children...

On and on it goes. Another lone wacko, a white 18-year-old, went on a well-planned killing spree in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo. It was a terrible, tragic, evil, obviously racist act. Ten innocent people died and three were injured last weekend -- 11 victims were Black...

That's the big news story of the week. In the richest country in the world, new mothers are not able to find baby formula or are having to stand in line for hours to get it. That problem is at the top — for now — of the growing pile of economic blunders and social miseries Joe Biden and his failing policies have caused the American people...

Forget inflation, forget Ukraine, forget the crashing stock market. Thanks to a troublemaking leak by some jerk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion is dominating the front pages of our media again. The leak of the first draft of a majority decision by the Supremes to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion in the U.S., has reignited the abortion issue overnight...

A friend of mine from back east once told me what he said was wrong with the country. "Readers are leaders," he said. "Unfortunately, our leaders don't read." I was reminded of that sharp-eyed observation last week after a federal judge in Florida struck down the CDC's widely hated mask mandate for travelers...

Forty years ago, we had a soaring inflation rate, obscene gas prices and interest rates in the teens. Today, thanks to their incredible incompetence, bad policies and serial stupidity, the Democrats in Washington are bringing back all those problems...

What happened the other night at the Academy Awards show really saddened me. After all, I'm a child of Hollywood as much as I am a child of politics. My mother Jane Wyman was a major player in Hollywood -- best actress Oscar, two stars on the Walk of Fame, handprints in the cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre...

Already I've had it. I've been back home for just a weekend but I'm ready to get back on that cruise ship and get away from America the Angry. The ship my wife and I cruised on recently in the Caribbean was like heaven. No political arguments at lunch. No one ranting about $6 gas prices. No TV screens filled with Fox or CNN talking heads...

Recently, we wondered what President Joe Biden was going to say in his first State of the Union address that was new, upbeat or important. Unfortunately, last week we found out. Nothing. Biden meandered around for an hour. Committing a few gaffes and making false claims about his alleged successes, he pretended his 13-month string of failures at home and overseas was some other country's nightmare...

Goodbye, Ukraine. That poor, corrupt and undemocratic Eastern European country is in the process of being beaten into submission and conquered by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. It should surprise no one. Putin has been telling us for months, and showing us for weeks by encircling Ukraine with 150,000 Russian soldiers, what he was going to do...

It's not masks that those rebel Canadian truckers are against. It's not the COVID vaccines or boosters one, two and three, either. The truckers (who reportedly are 90% vaxxed) and millions of like-minded citizens in the democracies of North America and Europe who are blocking highways and marching in the streets are protesting mandates...

Everyone's watching Russia to see what its thug-for-life, Vladimir Putin, is going to do in Ukraine. We ordinary citizens don't know whether Putin will actually invade Ukraine with the 127,000 Russian soldiers he's placed at its borders or whether he's just bluffing...

The good news is I'm feeling a lot better than I did early last week. The bad news is that despite being vaxxed a year ago and boosted about 10 days ago, I've come down with COVID. I, my wife, Colleen, and my son, his wife and one of their young kids have just caught the omicron variant — or it's caught us...

Joe Biden didn't disappoint me. At his press conference last week, he was the same old strange guy with the same old predictable excuses for one of the most hapless rookie presidential years in history. The liberal media reporters didn't disappoint me...

I'm sick and tired of wearing masks. I'm sick and tired of vaccine mandates. I'm sick and tired of hearing the dire warnings and broken promises of politicians and incompetent public health officials. For almost two years they've ordered us around like children and told us what individual freedoms we must sacrifice if we are to ever win the war against COVID-19...

The world is still COVID crazy. With their vaccine mandates, passports and mistreatment of the unvaccinated, free countries like Australia and Canada are turning into dictatorships. Now we have omicron -- a new variant of still unknown infectiousness and lethality that overnight panicked the world's governments and stock markets...

Well, what do you know. Donald Trump finally did the right thing. He shut up, encouraged his supporters to flood the polls and stayed away from Virginia. By keeping his powerful big political butt out of last week's elections in Virginia, the ex-president actually made a huge and positive contribution to the devastating losses Democrats suffered there on Tuesday night...

It's not until you leave the United States that you realize how angry Americans are. Earlier this month, my wife the travel agent and I took a cruise in the Mediterranean from Athens to Barcelona by way of stops on the Greek island of Santorini and in Sicily...