Michael Edward Reagan (born John Charles Flaugher; March 18, 1945)[4] is an American conservative political commentator, Republican strategist,[5] and former radio talk show host.

[1] Michael Edward Reagan was born John Charles Flaugher at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles to Essie Irene Flaugher[6][7] (October 18, 1916[8] – December 26, 1985),[9] an unmarried woman from Kentucky[10] who became pregnant through a relationship with John Bourgholtzer (1918–1993), a U.S. Army corporal.

[12] He attended Arizona State University for less than one semester and Los Angeles Valley College[13][14] but never graduated.

[11] In April 2013, in a syndicated column, Reagan accused American churches of not fighting hard enough to block same-sex marriage.

"[25] In June 2008, Mark Dice launched a campaign urging people to send letters and DVDs to US troops stationed in Iraq which support the theory that the September 11 attacks were an "inside job".

[26] Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a liberal/progressive media criticism organization, asked Radio America at the time to explain whether it permits "its hosts to call for murder on the air".

In a piece called Profile or Die, he wrote that it would be left to citizens to defend themselves if there were an attack against them by terrorists such as the Islamic State.

's office investigated allegations that Reagan improperly spent money invested by others in a company, Agricultural Energy Resources, he operated out of his house in a venture to develop the potential of gasohol, a combination of alcohol and gasoline.

[31][32][33] In 2015, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Reagan liable for conversion and breach of fiduciary duty.