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SAN DIEGO -- I'm Team Tony Dokoupil. And anyone in my profession who cannot say the same thing has forfeited the right to call themselves "journalists."

In 35 years on the job -- working at newspapers, but also on television and radio -- you pick up a few things.

Like the fact that it's the duty of those of us in the Fourth Estate to get in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My 15-year-old daughter is smarter than her old man. Everyone in the family knows this. So it came as no surprise that, recently, as she tried to pin me down, she wound up figuring me out.

She zeroed in on what I was thinking, and feeling, about this presidential election -- and the mediocre choices on the ballot -- and pointed ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- And so we arrive at the first anniversary of the hideous Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by thousands of Hamas terrorists on the state of Israel and the Jewish people.

Let's run through the three acts of this tragedy.

Act I was the acts of barbarism themselves, which left at least 1,200 people dead and hundreds more injured. About 240 ...Read more

Mexico Welcomes First Female President. But How Much Has Really Changed?

SAN DIEGO -- Is what's happening in Mexico a miracle? Or a mirage?

Now and then, I like to perform a wellness check on the old country. I go through the ritual to honor the memory of my grandfather, Roman -- who came with his family to the United States as a boy during ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- All of a sudden, Democrats are aghast at the concept of the U.S. government deporting undocumented immigrants.

Who knew? Although you won't hear it from a liberal media that is busy at the moment trying to get Vice President Kamala Harris elected, the Democratic Party has a long and not-so-proud history of aggressively removing ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Twelve years ago, I returned from a life-changing trip to Israel with a priceless souvenir: an epiphany that Jewish Americans and Mexican Americans have a lot in common.

Both have proud immigrant histories and a culture that some see as so foreign as to be threatening. Both have endured discrimination in the United States and ...Read more

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Here in sunny Los Angeles, it’s raining.

It’s too bad it didn’t rain real hard last Saturday.

It might have helped firefighters put out the enormous fire under the 10 Freeway near downtown before the heat weakened the pillars and forced the highway to be closed.

The fire – which officials now ...Read more