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SAN DIEGO -- Here is something you didn't need a library card to figure out.

Americans read fewer books than we used to, and the books that we do read are shorter. We spend less time in bookstores and more time on electronic devices. And instead of bucking this trend, public schools have caved in and assigned fewer books.

Even so, is the end...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- If you've ever written a eulogy, you already know that human beings are complicated.

At the end of the ride, we'll be proud of some of the things we've done but regret others. You take the good with the bad.

Most people don't want to be judged for the worst thing they did. But they don't give the same grace to elected officials....Read more

SAN DIEGO -- It's hunting season again.

That phrasing doesn't sound right. It suggests that the hunting stopped for a while, and now it has picked up again. The hunt never stopped. It just became quieter and less conspicuous. The hunters got wise. They realized that the objective wasn't to get headlines, but rather to increase the daily haul....Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Being Mexican American means never having to say 'thank you' ... to Mexico.

It's been that way for 178 years, ever since the end of the U.S.-Mexican War. That skirmish -- which was meant to cover up a land grab -- lasted from 1846 to 1848 and resulted in the United States seizing roughly half of Mexico's territory.

This was the ...Read more