RONALD REAGAN

  Those were the first words in English that Jaromir Jagr learned. He knew that Reagan brought down the Soviet Union and allowed him to come out from behind the Iron Curtain to play for the Penguins.

   What would George Washington and Abraham Lincoln think if they came back to see America on Presidents Day 2024? Would they never stop throwing up? Scott Powell, author of “Rediscovering America: How The National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story,” says, maybe.

   John Lott Jr., author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” on the typically stupid responses to the shootings at the parade in Kansas City last week.