Warner Todd Huston

Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan has passed at 80.

Regan, a conservative commentator and broadcaster and President Reagan’s son with his first wife, Jane Wyman, passed on Sunday according to his family.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Michael Edward Reagan,” Reagan’s family said in a statement. “Michael was and will always remain a beloved husband, father, and grandpa. Michael was called home to be with the Lord on Sunday, January 4th, surrounded by his entire family in Los Angeles, California. Our hearts are deeply broken as we grieve the loss of a man who meant so much to all who knew and loved him.”

The statement added, “We appreciate your prayers and ask that you would respect our family’s privacy during this difficult time,” wrote Andrew Coffin, Vice President and Director of the Reagan Ranch.

Young America’s Foundation shared its own message of condolences in a tribute on its website, reading, “We lost an American hero, a faithful son, and a devoted father and grandfather this week.”

Coffin noted that Michael had a wonderful way of reaching young people.

“Students who heard Michael speak gravitated to that same sense of authenticity that made his father such a successful leader. Few who had the privilege of listening to his stories will soon forget Michael describing Ronald Reagan’s long-held desire to say, ‘Nyet’ to a Soviet leader, something he was finally able to do with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavík,” Coffin wrote

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute also mourned Reagan’s passing and praised him as a “a steadfast guardian of his father’s legacy.”

“Michael Reagan lived a life shaped by conviction, purpose, and an abiding devotion to President Reagan’s ideals,” the foundation said in its statement.

The foundation also quoted President Regan on his son, Michael.

“President Reagan reflected on his son in An American Life, writing of Michael, ‘When I read his book, I had even more of a fatherly pride in Mike than I had had before…. he was happy and at peace with himself.’ Those words speak not only to a father’s pride, but to the quiet strength and authenticity with which Michael lived his life,” the organization said.

“Michael Reagan’s passing is a profound loss to all who knew him and to the millions who valued his dedication to preserving President Reagan’s legacy. His presence, warmth, and unwavering commitment will be deeply missed at the Reagan Library and far beyond its walls,” the foundation concluded.

Michael Reagan attended Arizona State University and Los Angeles Valley College, and then became an actor on television shows including “Falcon Crest. He went on to spend nearly 20 years as a conservative talk radio host.

He also served as the chair of the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation board for three years as well as president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.

Michael Reagan leaves behind his second wife, Colleen, and two children.

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It is that time of year again when left-wingers try to co-opt the Bible to support their anti-American ideals, and this time of year, they often abuse the birth of Christ by saying that Christ’s earthly parents, Joseph and Mary, were either homeless, were refugees, were immigrants, or even mostly outrageously, were “Palestinians.” The fact is, they were NONE of those things.

One sickening example came in 2024 when useful idiot Bear Grylls jumped to his X account to claim that Jesus’ mother Mary was a “Palestinian” and the family were “refugees.” But everything he said is a lie.

Grylls launched his false account of the birth of Christ saying the world is celebrating the “birth of a Middle Eastern refugee” who “changed the course of the world forever.”

“This is just a short extract from near the beginning of the adventure. When Maryam, a young, poor, and no doubt terrified Palestinian girl, gives birth in a run-down animal pen, to a baby who was foretold for hundreds of years,” he continued.

“Yet she was not alone. And she never would be. Because this was the moment that God Almighty broke into our fallen world in person,” he wrote, concluding, “To many of us, it is undoubtedly: The Greatest Story Ever Told.”

This is all a terrible warping of the truth. And for his lies, X slapped a brutal community note on him:

Grylls is far from the first left-winger to push around lies like this. His sort of fact-free, agenda-driven leftism has been disgorged by leftists for decades.

A few years ago, ABC chief political analyst Matthew Dowd similarly jumped to his Twitter account to ladle out the same shop-worn and false liberal claim that Jesus Christ’s parents, Joseph and Mary, were “two immigrants” in Bethlehem in the tale of the first Christmas. It all amounts to fake news that is over 2,000 years old.

Going back thousands of years for his Christmas Eve fake news, Dowd slanted the Christmas nativity story by saying Joseph and Mary were “immigrants” who were turned away by many in the town. “Let us remember today,” Dowd wrote, “2 immigrants, a man, and his very pregnant wife, sought shelter and were turned away by many. She gave birth in a manger.”

This claim that Joseph and Mary were “immigrants” is a mischaracterization long used to push a modern-day policy of immigration amnesty. The left’s argument goes: If even Jesus Christ’s parents were “immigrants,” how can today’s American Christians be against open borders and amnesty?

But the truth is, the famed Biblical couple were not “immigrants” at all. Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem to register for Caesar’s Internal Revenue Service. The pair had made their way to Bethlehem to register for a government census so that they could be assessed their tax bill.

The key excerpt comes in the Book of Luke, Chapter 2, (New International Version), which reads:

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register.

So, Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem, the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them.

Neither Joseph nor Marry were in town to “immigrate” to Bethlehem. They were there to be identified and registered by the government.

But even if Joseph and Mary did intend to move to Bethlehem in the Christmas story, they would still not be “immigrants” because their hometown of Nazareth and the Christmas story town of Bethlehem were still in the same country. You can only be an “immigrant” when you are leaving one country and entering another.

Further showing his unfamiliarity with the Christmas story, Dowd made the mistake of saying that Mary “gave birth in a manger.” That would have been quite a trick because a “manger” is the wooden box Baby Jesus was placed in after his birth. In fact, Mary gave birth in a stable, and then her baby was laid in a manger.

In addition, neither Joseph nor Mary were “Palestinian.” Both were Jewish people who were from Judea which was under the rule of the Roman Empire.

Liberals also co-opt the Christmas story in other ways. Joseph and Mary are often claimed to be “homeless” and “poor.” In truth, they were neither. They had a home in Nazareth, and Joseph was a carpenter for a living and had a middle-class lifestyle for his day.

So, just stop it. Joseph and Mary were not homeless. They were not trying to immigrate to Bethlehem. And they were not refugees from anything. They weren’t poor. And they weren’t Palestinians.

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