Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, "The Michael Reagan Show." The show airs on over 200 stations in the U.S. and for the world at www.radioamerica.com. His show has turned conventional radio wisdom upside-down, earning stellar ratings by concentrating on substantive national issues, albeit with a healthy dose of Mike's biting humor, wit and warmth. Listeners count on Michael Reagan to pierce the public relations veil that shrouds government and distorts the dominant media's coverage of social and cultural issues. Michael Reagan's radio career began with an appearance as a guest host on Michael Jackson's program from KABC in Los Angeles. Michael Reagan was then host of a top-rated local radio program on San Diego's KSDO before launching his national program in 1992. Prior to launching the national program, Michael Reagan set world records in power-boat racing. His racing raised more than $1.5 million for charities like the United States Olympic Team, Cystic Fibrosis and Juvenile Diabetes Foundations and the Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund. His efforts were recognized when he became a recipient of the "Victor Award" for outstanding sports and humanitarian achievement. Michael Reagan also serves on the board for The John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation and has authored many successful books including his best-selling autobiography, "On the Outside Looking In," and "The Common Sense of An Uncommon Man: The Wit, Wisdom and Eternal Optimism of Ronald Reagan." His latest book "Twice Adopted" is based on his personal story. Michael Reagan and his wife, Colleen, have two children and reside in Sherman Oaks, California. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 May 2012 17:02:00 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 17:02:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Sheep and chickens. That's what America's greatest corporations have become. Whether it's in California or nationally, it's the same sad story. America's best and biggest companies -- the banks, the energy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/05/16/businesses_must_fight 151f2028-132a-440a-9c46-b8aff605d51e Wed, 16 May 2012 17:02:00 GMT The only person I know who is better off today than he was four years ago is President Obama. He's making more money, living in a bigger house and playing more golf. And when his wife goes on a shopping spree with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/05/11/only_obama_is_better_off 1bf622ce-aead-43b3-a9a7-3fda85599655 Fri, 11 May 2012 15:26:00 GMT Cuba is a one-party state. North Korea is a one-party state. California is a one-party state. I'm not trying to draw any false parallels. But I've noticed bad things happen when one political party has complete... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/05/02/destroying_the_california_dream 5d58af59-7ba7-4c9e-ab28-4b904699fee1 Wed, 02 May 2012 20:56:00 GMT I don't know if it's Dodd-Frank. Or if it's Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd themselves. Or if it's just the big bankers. But the reality is, our banking system is completely screwed up when it comes to getting a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/04/25/backward_banking 7df0b1a2-e564-47d6-a8c9-006261420841 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:06:00 GMT Who should we tar and feather for the scandalous spending spree at that General Services Administration "conference" in Nevada two years ago? Whose fault is it that a bunch of GSA bureaucrats wasted money on $44... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/04/19/blame_congress_for_the_gsa_scandal 23b34f87-fcd1-4d2b-a415-66eee4c72a04 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT You told some newspapers editors last week that if Ronald Reagan were running for president today "he could not get through the Republican primary." I know what you were up to. You were trying to enlist Ronald Reagan... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/04/11/not_so_fast_there_mr_obama d7089071-db48-4ece-925b-c493fccc9ead Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:33:00 GMT President Obama wants his dear friend Vlad the Russian not to worry about the details of how the American missile defense system in Europe will be designed and implemented. Once he gets re-elected, the president... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/03/28/isnt_that_nice 0b65ae2b-8583-4293-af2e-6d2017a017fd Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:40:00 GMT Gong, Gong, Gong! I don't know about you, but watching the Republican primary season is making me feel like a judge on the "The Gong Show." I watched or listened to all three candidates after Tuesday night's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/03/21/gong_gong_gong 732a47b7-bac7-4c39-8fc5-599365ded8a3 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:17:00 GMT In less than 50 years they ruined my home state. They over-taxed it, over-regulated it and bankrupted it. They strangled its vibrant economy, destroyed its education system and let its infrastructure crumble.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/03/15/saving_california 464caebb-4c6e-4665-96bf-afd9f4ba2044 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT We all need to calm down and watch our mouths. Last week Rush Limbaugh referred to a Georgetown University law student who had testified to Congress about contraception as a slut. Rush did the right thing. He... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/03/08/cool_it_america 60fd528a-cb56-4a56-9d7f-377a0b21f85b Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT When will they stop asking Republicans like me about our party's choice for vice president? In every presidential election I've been involved in, the press and ordinary people are always asking, "Who will it be? Who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/03/01/when_will_it_stop 305c1385-58f9-4be0-be04-51902733f10a Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:54:00 GMT Another tremendously talented American who had riches and fame beyond most people's dreams has killed herself with drugs. Whitney Houston's life was wrecked and cut tragically short at 48 because she became mired in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/02/23/whitneys_death_should_be_a_lesson 0072d0be-f12a-4da8-a1c9-fd7b61821f74 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT I am an adopted son. I am a very lucky adopted son. And as an adopted son I want all adoptees like me to have the same wonderful adoptive parents I was lucky enough to have. My biological mother was an unmarried... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/02/16/make_a_difference_for_foster_children fa732ac6-7c92-4dae-ab01-88e1dcd18ece Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:56:00 GMT It seems to me that what is missing in the top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination is passion. While Ron Paul speaks with passion of the Federal Reserve and Rick Santorum speaks with passion... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/02/08/a_little_more_heat b906db07-6ee5-4ae1-a5ec-c14f9c4cd13a Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:51:00 GMT I am somewhat mystified -- and dismayed -- by the spectacle of a lot of so-called conservatives who weren't around in the 1980s dropping Ronald Reagan's name to promote themselves while they go about slandering Newt... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/01/31/savaging_newt ef58c1d6-455b-4b33-a0cc-d3fc7984cd6c Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:31:00 GMT He had a mistress who was pregnant and his wife had terminal cancer; he was running for president and the press knew all about it. But there was no firestorm in the media about this juicy scandal until after the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/01/24/they_pick_and_choose_which_ox_to_gore eb085ec7-2fd7-4065-aeac-2b24d74690b1 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Much like one of his predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama has all but declared war on the United States Supreme Court. It will be remembered that in 1937 FDR was angry over the high court's refusal to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/01/18/the_emperor_barack 566d93ba-52d2-4753-9845-a8b9fb302396 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:20:00 GMT Mr. President: Do you really think you are riding high with the rate of unemployment standing at a whopping 8.5 percent? 8.5 percent! Wow!! Perhaps we should take a real good look at the real numbers. The rate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/01/12/some_inconvenient_facts 91c08f6e-3f33-40b4-bed4-479f6b7d3114 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Iowa caucus results show it's still early in the game and nothing's certain. So what happened on the way to the Republican presidential nomination? Well, even with a slim official win, Mitt Romney did no better in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2012/01/05/iowa_votes d629ff0f-61d1-41ef-aac3-afa45bb67886 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:07:00 GMT For the past three years the United States Senate, under the leadership of Obama toady Harry Reid, has been an embarrassment for the United States. Now the so-called "Upper Body" has merely kicked the can down the road... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/12/22/americans_angry_at_senate_sycophants d4c2eb80-0553-4d39-ac0f-6cbf6c67ffa3 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT They say they are all Reaganites and that they want my father to return -- my father, who lived by his so-called 11th Commandment that no Republican should speak ill of another Republican. What makes them think he http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/12/14/has_the_right_gone_mad 9f17199a-7929-41c6-b8be-b7f4918266ce Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:15:00 GMT Tom Brokaw has written a book about the Greatest Generation, a generation that grew up with fathers in the home who saw it as their duty to instill in their sons a work ethic. The Greatest Generation went on to win... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/12/07/newt_is_right 016a77e5-0b15-48ac-bad2-57bc2aa617bc Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:37:00 GMT To listen to the "elite" media you'd think that a renowned statesman was regrettably planning to leave the political scene. As Jason Mattera of Human Events has noted, "After his announcement... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/12/01/barney_frank_good_riddance 1dd3e3c4-1baf-46eb-a010-3a2968761b0e Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Child rape is an unforgivable offense and should be severely punished. It should be a capital crime. Unfortunately and unwisely, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 struck down a Louisiana law that provided for the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/11/22/child_rape_deserves_the_ultimate_punishment 0867acec-abb7-4209-aa5b-32d58cca3196 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT Penn State football coach Joe Paterno released a statement on Wednesday in which he said, "With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more." How lame is that, Coach? Would you have accepted that excuse from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/11/15/dont_be_a_paterno_when_a_child_is_abused,_heres_what_to_do 9289e077-d427-48b4-8eef-ad69d8d4a6a6 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT My Dad would be beaming with pride over the behavior of Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in Saturday's debate, where there were polite discussions over the issues that concern us all. Moreover, the candidates offered their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/11/09/gop_field_in_flux 90f9a716-0d61-4454-b4b1-7c4af2c44d02 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:18:00 GMT Reporter: 'We're Not Going To Get Into Details Of Exactly What Happened'... Fmr. Secy: Not the Cain I know... CAIN FLASHBACK: 'I'M READY FOR HIGH-TECH LYNCHING'... Coulter: 'They Are Terrified Of Strong, Conservative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/11/02/no_shame b815a14e-256e-4b59-8bd0-c67d298d67f0 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:01:00 GMT Despite the recent chatter about a flat income tax -- a tax that every income earner pays regardless of their level of income -- the idea is dead unless its supporters figure out a way to get together and support the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/10/26/flat_tax_or_flat-out_dead c1286350-3be6-4cd2-ad8b-3e32c30f1513 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:46:00 GMT The hordes of so-called "protesters" now polluting the streets of several U.S. cities, including New York, are sending confused messages about their grievances. The unemployed among them complain that the jobs... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/10/12/pampered_protesters a4bbf94e-5ab3-4b5f-b967-862917eefcf8 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:45:00 GMT From now on, parents who plan to send their children abroad to study in a foreign nation should sit them down in front of the TV set and watch replays of the Amanda Knox saga. It has all the elements of a true-to-life... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/10/05/amanda_knox_a_cautionary_tale 64e048c3-8fdc-44d4-b76b-4fba5b96706b Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:51:00 GMT There's an old curse that begs, "O that mine enemy would write a book." That's a desire getting a big play in the debates between Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who are both trashing my Dad Ronald Reagan's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/09/29/get_serious! c730d596-a9cd-457d-9682-c835358f6228 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT There's one sure way for Republicans and conservatives to lose the 2012 presidential election -- split over who their presidential nominee will be, and fail to go all-out to support the winner. People keep... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/09/21/hang_together_or_hang_alone adfe1267-1a36-4fe0-9bd6-de886becc17a Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:42:00 GMT No matter what the record shows, there will always be the nay-sayers who have no trouble ignoring facts as obvious as the noses on their faces. Monday was the 10th anniversary of the horror we call simply by the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/09/14/the_truth_will_out 32cf60d0-875e-47fd-9424-7fa895513b3f Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT President Obama has nominated Princeton University Professor Alan Krueger to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. Saying that "I have nothing but confidence in Alan as he takes on this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/08/31/professors_dont_have_all_the_answers f2171f7c-d0a3-4807-ac1f-1a0f7ecd7215 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:28:00 GMT With approximately 135 different tribes within its borders, the hard lifting in Libya now begins. It is incumbent upon the United States to take a lead role in this vital area. No more of the Obama policy of leading... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/08/25/united_states_must_lead_in_libya 55a5b396-8203-40b4-a9e7-4cf68e16ed87 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:36:00 GMT If President Obama really wants to get the U.S. economy going again, he could do worse than to study the results of my Dad's 1981 Economic Recovery Act, which boosted the economy by leaps and bounds. Take the matter... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/08/17/obama_could_learn_from_ronald_reagan b8d57fba-4361-4f24-a9bc-97d1cc378197 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:55:00 GMT President Obama, the Democrat party and their members of Congress have spent years blaming former President George W. Bush for the nation's current economic woes, which is akin to blaming the bank's tellers for a bank... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/08/10/blame_obama cc88a9d6-43e7-499d-b926-ab534621089f Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:10:00 GMT Like everybody else, presidents have birthdays and have a right to celebrate them and invite others to join them in the festivities. But taking advantage of the occasion to bash the rich and then charge some of them... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/08/07/obamanomics_the_gift_that_keeps_on_giving 95152a08-7e33-4d85-b8bd-c763abd82a81 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT How long would the Norway gunman have lasted in Texas or any state where concealed-carry laws are on the books? I ran a survey while on a cruise: in Texas, 3 minutes; in Montana, 7 to 8 minutes; in Arizona, 2 minutes;... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/07/27/legal_guns_would_make_norway_safer df87b023-4ec4-455f-8db2-b19576d88c56 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:48:00 GMT President Obama wants Israel to revert to the pre-1967 borders. That would mean handing some of Christianity's most sacred sites over to the Palestinian government, which for all intents is controlled by one of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/07/15/making_sense 96c6292b-12d0-4039-8dc4-4c4e876e3b76 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:53:00 GMT According to a shocking news report, California legislators have enacted legislation that gives the state the dubious distinction of being the first state in the nation to require public schools to include the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/07/07/history_books_get_gay_makeover c5d8f0b7-a9a8-463d-b6b9-069b7922331b Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:01:00 GMT If the GOP is really serious about winning back the presidency, they need to win the deficit debate. The government of these United States is broke -- flat broke -- and if the nation is to survive as the prosperous... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/06/29/now_is_not_the_time_to_go_wobbly 14dd59d5-3d3a-4568-9727-1c7f9f34f993 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:14:00 GMT All of a sudden the kept media is all agog over one Jon (not John) Huntsman, recently retired from his Obama administration post as U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, provoking the president to joke that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/06/24/jon_who 0de2c14e-f998-4913-98c0-008937c0dc9c Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT They stood up there on the stage, shoulder to shoulder, and voiced their opinions freely, often disagreeing with each other over the various details, but they did it like the gentlemen and lady that they are; attacking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/06/17/the_11th_commandment_is_alive_and_well 55a2596a-2630-4f4e-a871-b28bb4bac9e9 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:12:00 GMT As many as 300,000 children are taken from their homes every year from neglect and abuse. In light of that, it is a blight on America even to think or to know that a member of the Congress of the United States has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/06/08/making_sense 3909b966-80db-400b-b5ee-87a740ee6237 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:21:00 GMT President Barack Hussein Obama is instructing our only staunch allies in the Middle East to risk destruction at the hands of one of the most radical terrorist organization in that troubled area, and he must be stopped... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/06/02/mr_obama,_stop_your_holy_war_against_christian_and_jews 8cb354fe-7d0c-4222-a287-2da68b1dc204 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:35:00 GMT My adoptive parents told me I was "chosen," but the kids at school told me I was a "bastard." The recent headlines about Arnold Schwarzenegger's infidelities and the son he fathered out of wedlock have stirred many... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/05/24/memo_to_arnold_schwarzenegger_and_the_media_--_there_are_no_illegitimate_kids,_just_illegitimate_parents 8b3db87f-da1c-4263-8947-6fd1848f74f0 Tue, 24 May 2011 14:34:00 GMT During his visit to Washington this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to be treated with the respect due to a top official of a key American ally -- treatment clearly denied him by President Obama... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/05/18/an_honored_guest 3997cc37-18c0-4383-b76a-b4b669b6a5b2 Wed, 18 May 2011 16:06:00 GMT One of the shameful hallmarks of a dictatorship is the restriction of movement -- telling citizens or groups they cannot travel or relocate freely. We are now witnessing a shocking example of that dictatorial... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/05/10/nlrb_vs_boeing_--_tyranny_vs_freedom 310219f7-2967-4487-8850-8361792990c6 Tue, 10 May 2011 20:36:00 GMT They got him. Put a couple of slugs in his face. Then they dumped his body in the sea -- something for the fish, which don't much care what they eat, to feed on. No matter how you look at it, this was a masterful... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2011/05/03/the_day_of_reckoning_arrives c5fd72c6-1341-4e1f-a003-75f67c24e11b Tue, 03 May 2011 04:01:00 GMT