Here you can find things adjacent to my fiction writing including recent Substack articles and other news of interest.
Here, on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, is a tribute to a friend, mentor, and patriot we lost on that awful day. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/in-memoriam-on-911
In this article I explore why there seems to be more conspiracies today than ever before and how it might be related to social media. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/conspiracy-theories
Flock cameras (generically, license plate readers or LPR,) are everywhere, and everywhere in the news. Is this a privacy issue, or a social media contagion? https://fxregan.substack.com/p/what-the-flock-is-up-with-these-cameras
People who have followed me on social media know that I am very interested in the January 5th pipe bomb case, and I've written numerous articles about it. As much research as I have done, I am working on the draft of my first non-fiction book about the case. Here I show how had things gone differently with the pipe bombs on January 5th, the events of January 6th might have never happened. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/j6-almost-didnt-happen
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was not controversial until after his terms as Director. He was confirmed 98-0 in 2001, and re-confirmed to an unprecedented two-year extension 100-0 in 2011. Here is something I wrote when he passed away earlier this year. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/on-the-death-of-robert-s-mueller
In February, Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, mysteriously disappeared from her Arizona home in a case that remains unsolved. Here was my early analysis about the case. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/the-nancy-guthrie-kidnapping
In January of 2024, before anybody had been identified or arrested in the January 6th pipe bomb investigation, I wrote the first of what is now ten articles about the case. Much of what I wrote then has held up today. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/the-january-6th-pipe-bombs
This article about the use of deadly force by the Capitol Police on January 6th is the most widely read article I have ever written. https://fxregan.substack.com/p/police-use-of-deadly-force-on-january