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Making Sense by Michael Reagan

It was extra painful to watch the president give that terrible speech to the country on Wednesday night.

It wasn’t that he had to struggle to read the teleprompter and form the words. We’ve gotten used to that serial public embarrassment.

It was that his primetime speech felt like you were listening to an Alzheimer’s victim who was so out of touch with reality that he was living in another time – in their childhood or their college days, for example.

In Joe Biden’s case, it was like he was still living in 2020.

His speech was not just a partisan and absurd attack on Republicans for being a dangerous threat to democracy.

It treated the most serious troubles of today – the economic and social ones that he and his fellow Democrats are largely responsible for – as if they didn’t exist.

In fact, according to the researchers at the Republican Party, six days before a midterm election that is certain to repudiate his inept and destructive rule, President Biden did not mention these burning political issues once:

Inflation, crime, the border, gas prices, fentanyl, China, education, the military, the police and the broken supply chain.

Instead, Old Joe – or, to be more accurate, the handlers who crafted his latest nasty harangue – warned the country that democracy itself will be at stake on Tuesday.

Biden opened up his latest hate speech by trying to link the recent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul by a crazy illegal immigrant from Canada to the Jan. 6 “insurrection.”

After that wild claim, he revisited Donald Trump’s refusal “to accept the results of the 2020 election.”

And then he went on to warn that for next week’s midterms “the extreme MAGA element of the Republican Party,” which he said was a minority of the party but its driving force, is trying “to suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.”

So, let’s see.

The alleged threat to democracy posed by Trump Republicans and the importance of accepting the results of next Tuesday’s elections without resorting to violence are the most crucial topics for the president and his party to stress six days before the crucial 2020 midterms?

Ok, Joe. If you think so.

But it’s not 2020 anymore. Donald Trump is not running for anything. And so far, democracy in America seems pretty healthy and is working the way it’s supposed to.

The record-breaking early-voting totals in Georgia and elsewhere are proof that the voting integrity laws recently passed by Republican legislators are not suppressing votes and preventing fair elections.

Despite all the scaremongering by President Biden, Stacey Abrams of Georgia and the liberal media, “Jim Crow 2.0” has turned out to be a myth.

It was no surprise Joe Biden’s speech scolding the American voter in advance for voting the wrong way made no effort to tout his failed policies or rebut his critics.

Everyone in the Democrat Party knows their ship is sinking like the Titanic and Biden is their demented captain.

So, yes, Mr. President, we get it.

We know that you know – and your handlers know – that you and your party are about to be dealt a humiliating and historic thrashing.

We know your hateful speech was a laughable attempt to dodge the most important problems of our day and deflect the attention of American voters from the awful reality your policies have created in less than two years.

And we agree that the midterms are all about democracy. You’re going to see democracy alive and well on Nov. 8.

We hope you will accept the outcome – and even learn some important lessons from it.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

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….

As you no doubt know, L.A.’s homeless population was in the news again this week.

This time, it was because of the washing machine that was installed on a sidewalk by one of the homeless citizens of LA’s sprawling tent cities.

But homelessness is no joke in L.A. It’s a serious and growing problem that the crooked politicians here can’t or won’t fix.

The city’s permanent homeless population – now numbering about 42,000 people – can be found in just about every neighborhood, but it’s concentrated in Downtown L.A.

Featured in all their squalor on Tucker Carlson’s show, L.A.’s “unsheltered” people are not just a huge social problem or a civic embarrassment, they are responsible for about 70 percent of the city’s crime.

They set buildings on fire, rob and beat each other, break into cars – and when they are caught, they aren’t arrested.

The city of Los Angeles spends tens of millions of dollars a year caring for the needs of the mentally disturbed people, drug addicts and petty criminals that it has allowed to take root on its sidewalks and streets.

L.A. has been raising taxes and floating bonds to pay for the homeless for years but the problem has only gotten worse – for civilized citizens.

For the homeless, it’s a great place to be. The weather is great. The ocean is nearby.

And the city government and a bunch of do-gooder organizations will fall over themselves to take care of your every need.

If you can’t hook up a washing machine, you can always use Laundry Truck LA, a free laundromat on wheels that will come around and wash, dry and fold your clothes.

One person running for L.A. mayor on a law-and-order theme – the candidate I’ll vote for – is Rick Caruso.

A former Republican who changed his party to Democrat so he’d have a chance to win in a deep blue city, Caruso is promising to expand the police force and build tiny homes for 30,000 homeless persons.

Complete with wi-fi, they’ll cost $60,000 per unit plus land costs. There are 15 already built not far from me, though I don’t know how they’ll fill them when crazy people and drug users are not eligible.

Meanwhile, Caruso’s opponent, the anti-gun, anti-cop Democrat Congresswoman Karen Bass, is promising to build 115 tiny homes around the city.

“Elect me, elect me,” they both say, “and I promise to fix the homeless problem.”

Yeah, right.

It’d be nice if someone who is already in office would actually do something to solve the homeless problem, but city hall is populated by political hacks who are not only incompetent but often racist or corrupt.

You’ve probably seen the latest scandal involving Latino city council members who were caught on tape making racist statements about blacks and other ethnic groups.

Before that, a federal corruption investigation looking into bribery, extortion and money laundering put one council member in prison and charged half a dozen city officials with kickbacks and various pay-to-play crimes.

L.A.’s racist city council president has stepped down in disgrace, but it doesn’t matter because her replacement will probably be just as racist and incompetent.

The same kind of politicians get elected again and again in L.A. They promise voters they’ll fix problems like homelessness, but they never do.

There’s a Republican Red Wave coming to America on Nov. 8 that will sweep the Democrats out of power in Congress.

But most important elections are local ones – city councils and school boards. And not even a Red Tsunami can flush away the incompetents ruining the City of Angels.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

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.

He had been asked to mention in the letter some of the most serious problems confronting the United States in 1976.

In case you’re too young to have been alive then, that’s when the Soviet Union Empire was truly dangerous and America was suffering from the effects of “stagflation,” high taxes, social unrest, weak leadership in Washington and a spiritual malaise that fostered a sense of national pessimism.

Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it?

Except for the year and a few details, many of those big problems of 1976 are back to torment us again today.

As my father explained in his disturbingly timeless commentary, writing that letter to the future “became a rather complex chore.”

“Think about it for a minute,” he said. “What do you put in a letter that’s going to be read 100 years from now – in the year 2076?

The people who will read it “will be living in the world we helped to shape,” he said.

“Will they read the letter with gratitude in their hearts for what we did or will they be bitter because the heritage we left them was one of human misery?”

Much of what my father said on the radio about what he put in his letter to the future could have been written yesterday.

He said the greatest problem the United States faced in 1976 was the choice “between continuing the policies of the last 40 years that have led to bigger and bigger government, less and less liberty, redistribution of earnings through confiscatory taxation, or trying to get back on the original course set for us by the Founding Fathers.

“Will we choose fiscal responsibility, limited government, and freedom of choice for all our people? Or will we let an irresponsible Congress set us on the road our English cousins have already taken? The road to economic ruin and state control of our very lives?”

Meanwhile, he also said what again may soon be true today, thanks to the Biden administration’s mishandling of the war in Ukraine:

“On the international scene two great superpowers face each other with nuclear missiles at the ready – poised to bring Armageddon to the world.

“Those who read my letter will know whether those missiles were fired or not. Either they will be surrounded by the same beauty we know or they will wonder sadly what it was like when the world was still beautiful.”

As we head for the midterm elections that conservatives hope will stop the Biden crew from doing any more damage to the country, what my father said to conclude his commentary 46 years ago he could say again now:

“If we here today meet the challenge confronting us, those who open that time capsule 100 years from now will do so in peace, prosperity and the ultimate in personal freedom.

“If we don’t keep our rendezvous with destiny, the letter probably will never be read – because they will live in the world we left them, a world in which no one is allowed to read of individual liberty or freedom of choice.”

This week I used my father’s warning to the future for a well-received talk I gave to 130 high school students at a Young America’s Foundation conference at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara.

I told those conservative leaders of tomorrow it’s their job to make sure America remains a place that’s peaceful, prosperous and free – so that their children will be around to read my father’s letter in 2076.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

I know it’s a stretch.

I know it’s a false analogy.

I know it probably has something to do with the way my mind and body have been messed with for the last two years by the people in charge in Washington and Sacramento.

But honestly, I’m having trouble seeing much difference between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin.

Putin is talking tough and firing cruise missiles into Ukraine to destroy the Ukrainian economy.

Biden is talking tough, telling countries like Saudi Arabia not to screw with him and firing executive orders into the United States to destroy our economy.

Biden has already hit us with his most destructive economic weapon – the A-bomb of 9 percent inflation.

And his green-blinded administration’s assault on America’s oil and gas industries has quickly flipped the country from being energy independent to energy dependent.

Now, he’s shamelessly – and desperately – abusing his executive power to try to buy votes for Democrats in the Nov. 8 midterms.

The panderer in chief has promised to cancel $10,000 of college debt for millions of students – which would cost future taxpayers at least half a trillion bucks.

He just made a big deal out of pardoning low-level drug offenders – though his political stuntsmanship actually affects only about 6,500 people in federal prisons who’ve been charged for marijuana possession, not the far greater number of drug offenders in state prisons.

And now, taking a page from California’s “progressive” playbook, Biden is pandering to labor unions by trying to impose AB5 – one of my state’s dumbest and most unfair laws – on the whole country.

This week his Department of Labor announced a new rule that may make it likely that companies in every state will have to copy AB5 and classify part-time gig workers as full-time employees, which means that by law they will be guaranteed higher wages and benefits.

That also means many gig workers – who have chosen to work part-time driving for Uber as contract workers or as actors or self-employed freelance writers – will be laid off or never hired in the first place.

California, they correctly say, is where most of America’s new ideas come from.

But unfortunately, as Gov. Newsom proves every other month, ideas hatched out here that have to do with government, transportation, immigration, the environment and public health are usually expensive, dumb and semi-tyrannical.

For Biden to be copying anything the former Golden State does is a really good way to harm the rest of the country.

I’m afraid it won’t be long before the president is telling us that to save the planet from burning up we won’t be able to buy a new gasoline-powered car in the USA after 2030, as Newsom recently told Californians.

It really amazes me that Californians – and all Americans – are not marching in the streets to protest what Newsom, Biden and the Democrats in Congress have been doing to make our lives miserable for the last two years.

Whether it’s the bungled war on Covid, the war on fossil fuels, the war on gun rights, the war on cops, the war on parents of school kids or the war on plain common sense, Biden and his handlers seem intent on doing their best to make America less great.

Our president thinks he’s a tough guy, but deep down he’s really a mean guy. A mean guy who’s spent half a century selling his political power to anyone who’ll pay for it – and who still can’t stop.

Everyone knows his serial executive orders are all about affecting the elections coming up in less than four weeks.

Democrats are right to be terrified of Republicans, independents and ex-Democrats severely punishing them on Nov. 8 for their mistakes and crimes against the country.

Let’s pray that the results of the mid-terms save us from two more years of the Democrats’ reign of incompetence, wars, woke stupidity and lies – and from making America any more like California.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Can someone please tell me where anything good is happening in the U.S.?

Everywhere you look, America the Beautiful has been turned ugly, weak and troubled.

The economy is on the road to a recession – or even worse.

Inflation is stuck at over 8 percent a year – with no end in sight.

The stock market is spiraling to Hell.

Interest rates on mortgages have more than doubled in six months.

Gas prices are again zooming toward $7 a gallon in California. The prices of lettuce, ground beef and eggs across the country have gone to the moon.

In just two years, the Biden administration’s fossil-fuel-haters have sabotaged our booming oil and gas industries and returned us to dependency on OPEC and the thugs running Venezuela.

And now we’re more than half a year into a brutal proxy war with Russia over Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Instead of calling for a ceasefire, hosting a summit and working toward a political settlement, the Biden administration and its war hawks are keeping the bloody conflict going by giving Ukraine tens of billions worth of military weaponry.

Back on the home front, civilization is losing the fight against chaos and lawlessness.

Streets and sidewalks in our greatest cities are permanent homes to booming populations of homeless people, drug addicts and mentally disturbed people.

The “woke” criminal justice policies of Democrat mayors have turned even once-safe neighborhoods into lawless spaces where increasing numbers of random murders and assaults, smash-and-grab robberies of retail stores and car jackings occur.

Their cities’ police departments are under-funded, understaffed and demoralized by irresponsible so-called “social justice” policies like cashless bail and early prisoner-release programs that make their jobs miserable and impossible.

On a federal level, don’t get me started about things like the border, the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI and our $31 trillion national debt.

America has become a train wreck with 340 million casualties – and it’s largely thanks to the addled president and the Democrats who control the levers of power in Washington.

How anyone who is not a Democrat committee person or does not host a nightly show on MSNBC can actually be happy about the way things are going in America today is baffling to me.

After two years of failures, how can any normal American who’s buying groceries or watching the news still be supportive of Biden and the Democrats?

Maybe people don’t understand that their 401ks are in the stock market.

Maybe they don’t realize our southern border is a freeway for millions of illegal immigrants or that we’re on the verge of a serious, dangerous and completely unnecessary war with Russia.

Maybe people think personal pronouns, the pursuit of “equity” and saving the planet from global warming are more important topics for our leaders to worry about than keeping America free, safe, happy and prosperous.

Whatever loyal Democrats think, it’s clear America has been going backwards under Biden, Inc.

He is a national embarrassment, but he’s not the main problem. He’s a figurehead, a puppet.

It’s the string-pullers behind him – and the Democrats running Congress and the major media – who have been aiding, abetting and ignoring Biden’s hameful deconstruction of America.

We’re stuck with Joe as president for another two years – if his brain and body last that long.

But if enough Americans wake up, which I think they will in a big way, on Nov. 8 we can stop the damage Biden and his crew are doing by humiliating the Democrats in the midterms and taking firm control of the House and the Senate.

Then, following two refreshing years of political gridlock, we can put a Republican back in the White House.

Then – as long as the Republicans we elect on Nov. 8 do the right things and we decide to re-elect them in 2024 – we’ll be able to put America back on the track to greatness.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

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.

I don’t know what DeSantis specifically believes about climate change, its causes, its dangers and its cures.

But I do know it’s the opposite of the logic-challenged “View” ladies and the climate hysterics employed by the Biden administration and the major media.

The people who think our planet will catch on fire unless we turn the clock of civilization back 500 years acted this week like Ian was the first major hurricane to ever strike Florida.

Hurricanes have always gotten a ton of national attention from the news media – for obvious reasons.

But now, like everything else these days, they’ve become politicized.

Climate change nuts and their fellow travelers in the media hold up each named hurricane as one of their “proofs” that modern mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has doomed the planet.

But hurricanes are to Florida what earthquakes, fires and droughts are to California. What tornadoes are to Kansas and Nebraska. What Ice Ages every 100,000 years or so are to Mother Earth.

Sensible climate scientists like Bjorn Lomborg of Sweden know that despite Ian’s power and devastation, the average number and intensity of hurricanes striking the U.S. each decade has not increased this century.

Lomborg believes the globe is warming. But he says human activity is responsible for only a fraction of it and does not pose an existential threat to Earth or to us.

Not now. Not soon. And anyway, slowly warming temperatures are something he says we can easily prepare for and adapt to thanks to our wealth and technology.

Lomborg also stresses that cold kills at least seven times more humans around the world each year than heat – which probably explains why I’ve never heard of a single person who’s left California and moved to the Yukon.

I believe the Earth is warming, but I’m with Lomborg. It’s not man-made.

I’m no climate expert, that’s for sure. But I know Earth is real big. It’s real complex. It’s not even a speck compared to the gigantic Sun that allows life to exist on our planet.

Earth’s tilted axis, its eccentric orbit around the Sun, its huge weather patterns, ocean currents, ice caps, volcanoes, slowly creeping continents, minutely growing and eroding mountain ranges – they all have far more to do with the changes in Earth’s climate than us puny humans.

Blaming man for global climate change is not only arrogant, it’s bogus. It only gives politicians and environmentalists more power to tell us what we’re allowed to do so they can solve “the problem.”

But the problem isn’t caused by man, it’s caused by nature.

The Ice Ages came and went every 100,000 years – and one will come again. We’re lucky as heck to be in the warm period between two of them now or there’d still be two miles of ice on top of New York City.

And before we drop this subject, will someone please tell the ladies of “The View” the story about what happened on Sept. 19, 1559 to the Spanish conquistadors who established a colony on the Gulf Coast of Florida near what’s now Pensacola.

Five weeks after they arrived a powerful hurricane hit them – they apparently weren’t watching the Weather Channel – and destroyed most of the settlement and their fleet.

They tried to rebuild but in 1561 the Spanish government gave up. It decided Florida’s Gulf Coast was so dangerous it left and didn’t come back to settle again for 134 years.

As far as I know, SUVs, F-150s and Gov. DeSantis had nothing to do with that 1559 hurricane, either.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Well, there goes the United States 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.”

The diversity pitch not only instructs cadets that they should “include all genders” when they speak among themselves, it tells them to drop terms like “mom” and “dad.”

Why?

You guessed it – some poor cadet might be made to feel uncomfortable or sad because they do not have a mom or a dad.

Our Air Force cadets, says the presentation, are to refrain from using “mom” and “dad” because “Some families are headed by single parents, grandparents, foster parents, two moms, two dads, etc.: consider ‘parent or caregiver’ instead of ‘mom and dad.’ ”

Not using “mom” or “dad” ought to generate a few good laughs on campus.

Can you imagine a future F-15 fighter pilot casually asking one of his beer buddies, “Is your parent coming down for Caregivers Weekend?” or “Did your caregiver send you another box of they great chocolate chip cookies?”

Colleges have been enforcing pronoun madness and other politically correct codes of woke speech and behavior for years. Big corporations too, like Disney and Google, are all in.

The whole woke thing is absurd, but it’s not funny. It’s being pushed by some people who want to destroy America and blow up our public and private institutions.

Every individual American obviously should be free to be what they want to be.

The Woke should be free to call each other by whatever pronoun they want, or gender-identify any way they want, and the rest of us should be tolerant and leave them alone.

But we should not be letting the Woke bully the rest of us or harm our children with their wackiness.

You or I would never be allowed to go into a classroom with a Bible and preach to the kids about the joys of Christianity – or even free-market capitalism.

But apparently a lot of people think it’s perfectly OK to spread the Gospel of Transgenderism to third graders.

Now our military is catching up on wokeness – and letting itself be weakened by a bunch of bad ideas that appeal to a minuscule percentage of Americans.

But instead of telling the Woke mob to get lost and leave the armed services alone, the military leadership of today is enabling and welcoming them.

Think about how the military leaders of yesteryear would handle this subversive threat.

The leaders who wouldn’t cry in public or botch a withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The ones who were real men, who fought wars to win, not to tie.

The ones who knew why the military had to be as tough, ready and well-armed as possible.

Unfortunately, today all of the good leaders in our military are apparently cowering in their foxholes, afraid to publicly stand up to those who are emasculating our armed forces.

If our current batch of military leaders had been in charge during World War II, there would have been no D-Day and we’d all be speaking German.

Heck, if they had been leading us in 1776, we would still be a part of the British empire.

The sad truth is, though, we’ve essentially lost every war since World War II anyway.

The next big war will likely not go well for us, either, because we’ve been slowly destroying our military from within.

So who’s going to defend Taiwan from China? The Woke U.S. Marine Corps? The All-Inclusive U.S. Air Force? The U.S. Navy Crybabies?

I’m sure President Xi is shaking in they boots.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

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 percent of her British subjects.

I’m a devout small-r republican, not a monarchist.

But whether you love the British form of government or hate it for being a relic of a primitive political age, Queen Elizabeth deserves her gigantic send-off and every second of the media attention she’ll get until her state funeral on Monday.

She was a major historical figure of our time – an essentially symbolic but politically important leader of her country and its shrinking commonwealth.

Everyone but a few leftist cranks agrees she did her job with great wisdom, dignity and grace for seven decades.

As former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “… We understand the vital role she played, selflessly and calmly embodying the continuity and unity of our country.”

It’s really shocking when you realize just how long Queen Elizabeth was a superstar on the world stage.

When she began her reign in 1952, historic tough guys like Churchill, Stalin and Truman were still in charge.

She lived for 96 years and ruled for 70 in a monarchy more than 1,000 years old; our country is only 256 years old.

Thanks to my lucky life, I met Queen Elizabeth in LA in 1983 when she attended a dinner at 20th Century Fox studios.

Watching her funeral on BBC was a great way to escape the non-stop politics of stupidity and division that Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats are practicing every day here at home.

They have been calling Republicans and conservatives “racists, murderers, misogynists” and “domestic terrorists” for almost two years.

Now, as they conduct their dirty campaign to use the DOJ and the FBI to prevent Donald Trump from running in 2024, they’ve added the word “fascists” to describe “MAGA Republicans.”

Hopefully, come November the Democrats will be thrown out of the House and Senate and the country will be spared any further damage from their bad ideas and evil actions.

Meanwhile, Biden and his hapless vice president can’t get out of their own clumsy way.

Last weekend Kamala Harris was on TV insisting with a straight face that the southern border – which is a high-speed drug highway into America and is being crossed by about 2 million illegal immigrants a year from around the world – is “secure.”

On Tuesday – as the stock market was falling 1,200 points on news that August’s inflation rate went up – Biden threw a party on the White House lawn to celebrate the passage of the fraudulently named Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

James Taylor was even hauled out of the basement of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Old Folks Home to sing “Fire and Rain,” a 1970 song about a friend’s suicide and his own heroin addiction.

It was not such a smart idea to book Taylor, considering thousands of Americans are dying each year by overdosing on the fentanyl flowing in from Mexico across our secure border.

But the entire inflation party was so tone-deaf it makes you wonder which of the Three Stooges is running the White House for Joe Biden.

Lucky for us and the rest of the world, presidents like Biden only “rule” for eight years at most and their power is checked by Congress and the courts – at least in theory.

We don’t have a royal family like the Brits that produces great leaders like Queen Elizabeth who hold “office” for life.

It’s a good thing for America, too. Try to imagine the national suicide rate if we got stuck with a Queen Hillary or a Queen Nancy for 70 years.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense By Michael Reagan

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 like Ghana, Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked us to not use electricity between 4 and 9 p.m.

The idea is to conserve power – and to prop up the electric grid that Newsom and his environmentalist comrades have been dismantling and neglecting for decades with their harmful green energy policies.

Having to conserve electricity is just the latest form of torture California’s Democrat rulers have inflicted on its 40 million citizens.

We already don’t have enough electricity to run our air-conditioners when the temperature soars into triple digits, as it usually does each September.

I can’t imagine what life will be like here in 2035.

That’s when Newsom’s latest bad idea becomes law and all new cars and passenger trucks that are sold in the state from then on will have to be electric.

Right now there are about 30 million registered motor vehicles in California that burn fossil fuels. About 14 million are cars. About 560,000 of those are pure electric vehicles.

Electric cars über alles sounds great.

It sounds like a simple, doable and environmentally virtuous way to save the planet from climate change by killing off our dirty gasoline-powered transportation system.

But in the real world, unless the state allows more nuclear and oil-and-gas-powered power plants to be built, there simply won’t be enough energy in California by 2035 to charge tens of millions of lithium batteries every day.

You remember lithium batteries? Those are those little ones the airlines tell you not to put in your checked luggage because they like to burst into flames now and then.

Well, a Tesla lithium battery weighs about 1,000 pounds – which is why you have to recharge them outside and not in the garage attached to your house.

But let’s forget about the lucky folks who can still afford to own a house and a Tesla in California. What about people who live in an apartment complex with 200 or 300 units?

Where are their Volt charging stations going to be placed? They’ll have to be outside. On the street. Where the homeless camps often are.

Another major problem with electric cars in the real world will occur when freeways are closed for hours by wild fires, as they occasionally are in California.

Or when a blizzard in the mountains shuts down the interstate and strands thousands of motorists with slowly dying batteries.

Or when a hurricane forces a million people to quickly evacuate by electric car from New Orleans.

By 2035, many things will change, of course.

Other foolish states – mostly Blue ones – will also outlaw new gas-powered cars.

But the price of electric vehicles will come down. Charging stations will pop up everywhere. Innovation will happen with batteries that will give electric cars greater range.

And batteries, which today are made from lithium that comes from mines that tear deep dirty holes in the skin of Mother Earth, will be made in the U.S., not China. And maybe they will be replaced with something cleaner and better that doesn’t employ slave labor.

Before he resigns, perhaps Joe Biden might even buy every American with a driver’s license a free charging station or give them a $10,000 down payment to make up for the high cost of electric vehicles.

“Save the planet, America, buy an electric vehicle – whether you like it or not.”

That doesn’t sound very nice to me, so if Gov. Newsom doesn’t mind, I think I’ll pass.

As long as his climate police and the Great Almighty let me, I’m going to continue driving my Ford F-150 Raptor with a smile on my face, love in my heart and the AC cranked up as high as it will go.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

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.

“When you look at the definition of fascism,” she said at a press conference without knowing what fascism is, “and you think about what [Republicans] are doing in attacking our democracy, what they’re doing in taking away our freedoms, wanting to take away our rights, that is what that is.”

Oh, sure.

Everyone knows Trump was just another Hitler and the millions of “Make America Great Again” Republicans who voted for him are “a threat to our democracy.”

Earlier this week in Pennsylvania, Biden delivered another political hate speech.

As part of his national road tour to drum up support for Democrats in the midterm elections, he laid out his long overdue federal plan to address the national crime wave – you know, the one created by “progressive” Democrats who’ve spent the last few years defunding or decimating police departments in cities across the country.

This time Biden took a cheap pot shot at the millions of Americans (from both parties, by the way) who defend the Second Amendment because they believe – as the Founding Fathers did – that a well-armed populace is crucial to keeping our own government in line.

Biden mocked so-called “right-wingers” who are fighting against his proposal to place a federal ban on guns that look like “weapons of war” but aren’t – specifically, the very popular semi-automatic AR-15 rifle.

Saying Second Amendment rights are not absolute, Biden said, “You can’t go out and buy an automatic weapon. You can’t go out and buy a cannon.

“And for those brave rightwing Americans who say, ‘It’s all about keeping America … independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15, you need something a little more than a gun.”

Hardly anything Biden says – or reads – makes sense. But an F-15? The tactical fighter jet? Is that what we’d need to fight back against a despotic American government?

People ask what’s wrong with America. The answer is, “Lots.”

In this case, Biden was basically threatening the American people, saying, “Go ahead, try to take your government back. We’ve got bigger guns than you. We’ve got F-15s.”

Republicans railed against his F-15 statement, which is similar to ones Biden has made before in his mindless crusade against gun rights.

Democrats and the liberal media applauded on cue, of course. They really believe the myth that half the country – the Red half they fly over in their private jets – are evil insurrectionists who’d sack Washington and level it with artillery next weekend if they could.

President Biden is not just out of it, he’s scary. He and his anti-gun allies are spooking so many Americans into buying weapons it’s almost impossible to find one to buy – leagally.

I don’t need any new guns. I’ve got mine – and I like to shoot them.

In fact, right now, this Labor Day weekend, I’m shooting dove in California farm country, south of Palm Desert, in the desert town of Brawley.

Sept. 1 was the opening day of dove season and for nearly 30 years I’ve gone on these shooting trips at this time of year with my family and friends.

I eat what I shoot and did not graduate from the Dick Cheney School of Bird Shooting.

And in case someone is reading this column to the president, he should know that I brought along my Model 870 Remington 12-gauge shotgun, which he so kindly says I’m allowed to use to protect my home. But please tell him I left my F-15 at home in the garage.

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Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to [email protected] and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.