Reid Collins

When dealing with the autocrats of the Kremlin, President Reagan engaged in a recurring fantasy. What if we, the prime powers in the world, were faced with some exogenous calamity, an extra-terrestrial force that threatened earth’s destruction? Then, couldn’t we…

Editors have a nasty little habit of telling news writers, “you missed the lead,” when a complicated story buries itself in facts and figures but fails to discover the salient feature that made it worth doing and thus worth reading….

The Friday Night NBA fights, Detroit vs. Indiana, have been submerged by the newer sports scandal, the win-at-any-cost steroid use in the major baseball world. And the question: should these “new men” be allowed in the record books along with…

“You gotta remember, this is a town where they set fire to each other’s houses for Halloween.” Uncle Pundit was reflecting on the NBA’s donnybrook in Detroit where a hard foul in the final minutes became the Sarajevo incident that…

And the latest it would appear is Margaret Hassan, the longtime director of CARE in Iraq. Kidnapped by terrorists October 19, made to beg in videos issued by her captors, and now, according to Al-Jazeera, shown being shot in the…

Or better yet, regain your head, and insist on a re-visitation of the quietly-passed federal law that insists all sentient persons within the parameters of America’s 193,000 polling places have an unchallengeable right to cast a ballot in this election….

“So what’s wrong with it?” Uncle Pundit, just back from a driving tour of Montana, and testy on the subject of the absent flu vaccine, had dummied up an ad for the Washington Post. ATTENTION PHYSICIANS !!! PATIENT AVAILABLE. MEDICARE,…

Before further pants-wetting takes place over the “space plane” antics in the Mojave, and before any rich fan plunks down a hundred or two hundred thousand for a seat when the act becomes commonplace, let’s look at what these “space…

“This is how the (Kerry) world ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper.” Doesn’t have to be that way, Senator. How about going out with a bang? How about establishing a dime’s worth of difference. In the “debates”…

The headline blares: “In Medals, the U.S. Rules the World.” So obsessed is the United States media with total medal count that a casual observer might think that total medals won is an Olympic competition category. It is not. It…