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Under federal law, millions of Americans are committing felonies right now because they own guns and use marijuana, even if they live in states that have legalized the drug. There is nothing unconstitutional about that baffling situation, a Trump administration lawyer assured the Supreme Court on Monday, because cannabis consumers are ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Even a broken president can be right once or twice.

As a result of the United States attacking Iran -- with help from Israel -- these are scary times. But they're also complicated times. Discount anyone who claims to have it all figured out.

In politics, there are two things that are difficult to do. One is to take someone whom ...Read more

The president wasted no time getting to his lies. It started in the first minute, when he claimed that: "When I spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis, with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide-open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home and wars and...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- More Americans are realizing that both political parties have failed miserably in dealing with immigration.

It's true that President Donald Trump has squandered his advantage. His approval rating on immigration has hit record lows, with only about 39% of Americans approving of how he handles the issue. Many think U.S. Immigration...Read more

On Friday, hours after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had no tariff authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, he invoked a different law to impose "a temporary import surcharge" of 10%, later raised to 15%. Trump suggested he also might impose tariffs under four other statutes, some of which he has ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- In Mexico, the flames are out. But for our friend and ally, what comes next is still a burning question.

Americans need to pay attention to what's happening south of the border for a few reasons.

First, there's the proximity. If your next-door neighbor's house has termites, it might be a good idea to get your own house checked. ...Read more

Gallup released 2025 survey data this month from its National Health and Well-Being Index showing a significant drop in Americans' optimism for the future. Taken from four quarterly surveys conducted last year, a total of 22,125 respondents were asked to "imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top." They were...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As a storyteller, I remember to begin with a tale.

In August 2005, I spoke to a group of retirees in their 70s and 80s. Those were whippersnappers compared to Julie, a 100-year-old woman who approached me.

Julie wanted me to know that everything happening now -- armed masked men disregarding due process, entering homes without ...Read more

In 2013, several Republican senators questioned then-President Barack Obama's use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. The lawmakers, who included Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), were especially troubled by the possibility that drones might be deployed against American ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- What I remember about the one time I met the Rev. Jesse Jackson is how it turned into a multilingual affair.

It was 1994, and I was co-hosting a nightly 9 p.m. to midnight talk show for ABC radio in Los Angeles. My co-host, Tavis Smiley, had heard from Jackson, who was in town for an event with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Tavis invited...Read more

In one of my group texts with friends from church recently, an interesting commentary from The Hill's John Mac Ghlionn was shared. He asserts that "America is merely witnessing a Christian reboot, not a Christian revival." Mac Ghlionn's analysis stems from his examination of cultural leanings and how Christianity is often presented in the ...Read more

President Donald Trump's approval rating is sinking and gasping for air. His average net approval stands at -13.7, which is lower than Joe Biden's was at this point in his term. This matters beyond cosmic justice: The president's approval rating is the best predictor of midterm election outcomes. When it falls below 50%, his party tends to lose ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My wife is the brains of the operation, and so it's rare that she asks a question with an obvious answer.

"Why did they lay off so many people at The Washington Post?" she asked recently. I worked for the Post for 24 years as part of the now shuttered Washington Post Writers Group. So my wife knew I'd have an opinion on the ...Read more

The New York Times embraced legalization of recreational marijuana in 2014, two years after Colorado and Washington became the first states to take that step. By that point, most Americans opposed pot prohibition, and that majority has grown since then.

Although the Times does not regret endorsing legalization, its editorial board now says ...Read more

Introducing the Bad Bunny backlash. On Super Bowl Sunday, the real losers were the estimated five million Americans who were so sheltered, so entitled and so used to getting their way that they fled the halftime show and went to YouTube for a whole lot of white noise.

The game is over. But the national conversation about the show put on by 31...Read more

As we survey the wreckage of Trump's second term, it is often said that half the country voted for this, or worse, half the country is fine with this. That isn't true.

MAGA is a bit of a moving target, but a recent Economist/YouGov poll found that only 27% of all voters described themselves as "MAGA supporters" and a perhaps ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Jeffersonian patriots are bloodied but unbowed as they fight back against the Mad King's violent but futile attempts to reverse demographics, restore the cultural relevance of white people, and make America into the 1950's again.

Take heart, soldiers. Reinforcements are coming. And yes, the revolution will be televised; in fact, ...Read more