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Even if President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project is illegal, the Justice Department argued last week, federal courts are powerless to stop it. That assertion was consistent with Trump's general attitude toward judicial review, which he considers legitimate only when it allows him to do what he wants.

Last October, Trump ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Republicans need a new mascot that is more in sync with their current vibe.

Like a crying baby. Instead of competing with Democrats for beer-drinking blue-collar voters, Republicans could corner the market on Americans who prefer whine.

As part of Generation X, nostalgia for the 1980's comes with the territory. Better music. ...Read more

Long live one of America’s finest creations: the drive-in theater.

One of my great drive-in memories dates to 1969, when my parents took my five sisters and me to see “Herbie the Love Bug” in our Plymouth Fury III station wagon.

As the blue sky fell dark and the film projector began rattling behind the concession stand, black-and-white ...Read more

Toward the end of the spring semester, I sent a final email to students in my Sports Icons class at Ohio State University's Lima campus regarding the NAACP's proposed boycott urging Black football players to avoid attending Power 4 conference schools in Southern states that have redrawn their congressional and local legislative districts. I ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Here's a political postcard from California, where the scenery is beautiful, but the election choices are grotesque.

It makes for a depressing vibe. ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, whose show broadcasts from Los Angeles, picked up on it.

"Here in California, we have a real toss-up in the races for governor and for mayor of L.A...Read more

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree

As we approach the country’s 250th birthday, I find my mind drifting back to its 200th.

Yes, a weary nation looked to the Bicentennial to lift our spirits from the lingering effects of the Vietnam War, Watergate and OPEC muscle-flexing. We desperately needed to be able to sing “Yankee Doodle” heartily and ...Read more

President Donald Trump has a long history of naming things after himself, including Trump Tower, the Trump National Golf Club, the Trump Taj Mahal casino, Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka and Trump: The Game. But as he discovered last week, such self-promotion can be legally problematic when it requires congressional approval.

On ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I honestly didn't think it was possible.

But, as remarkable as it sounds, President Donald Trump managed to say something really smart about the war with Iran.

Before we get to the smart thing, let's look back at some of the dumb things the president has done since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. It was ...Read more

Conservative graduation speakers still give better advice than speakers on the left.

In 2015, after reviewing two commencement-speech anthologies featuring 18 liberal speeches and 30 conservative speeches, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada — then a Washington Post blogger — gave five reasons why conservatives do a better job.

First, ...Read more

On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence." This pastoral letter has been much anticipated by the Catholic Church, and immediate news headlines expressed intrigue that the pope addressed the moral dilemma of AI and compared it to the story ...Read more

The Orwellian 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Trump has created -- the legal equivalent of twirling the combination lock on Fort Knox and driving off with gold bars -- purports to be righting a wrong. The bogus (and badly written) "settlement agreement," which is laughable as there was no true lawsuit, claims to be compensating those who were victims ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Every time I see another example of President Donald Trump weakening America -- by desecrating our Constitution, destroying our traditions, or diminishing our position in the world -- I get furious.

At Democrats.

The way I see it, Trump didn't actually win the 2024 presidential election. Democrats lost it.

Think about it. ...Read more

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree

“You get a line and I’ll get a drone, honey / You get a line and I’ll get an app, babe…”

Or something like that.

I haven’t been fishing since 1972 (although my lunch has to share shelf space with bait worms in the company break room refrigerator), so I didn’t realize just how controversial the once-...Read more

Last week, Republican senators grilled Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" created by President Donald Trump's settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS. About 45 senators attended the meeting, and "at least half of them were blasting the attorney general," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reported. "...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Many Mexican Americans who grew up amid the subtle racism of California probably never thought they'd see the day that one of our own would be elected governor of the nation's most populous state.

Now Democratic frontrunner Xavier Becerra -- former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former California Attorney General, ...Read more

As millions of Americans hit the roadways this summer, it’s time to be especially aware of distracted drivers.

According to Distraction.gov, distracted driving involves “any activity that could divert a person's attention away from the primary task of driving” — everything from eating and drinking to using a navigation system to ...Read more

We are nearing the end of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, and one of the main focuses this year has been urging people to seek help when needed, as more efforts are being made to reduce the stigma around struggling with emotional wellness. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, "(M)ore than one in five U.S. adults live ...Read more

This is the Trump era, which means if you blink, you will miss another shattering example of unabashed corruption. I don't usually write about the same topic twice in a row, but the latest revelations of Trump's wanton, shameless profiteering from the White House cannot go unremarked. The term "drain the swamp" will go down in history as a ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- If there is one thing that Americans don't need, it's more whine. The latest vintage -- which seems to be popular with young people -- is particularly bitter. It's not fit for public consumption. It needs to be poured down the drain, so it can slither its way back to the sewer from whence it came.

Some things never change. When ...Read more

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch …If you can chug-a-lug protein shakes while doing crunches and not throw up too much…you’ll be a Man, my son!” – apologies to Rudyard Kipling

Did you see the “Wall Street Journal” article headlined “Young ...Read more