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CNN data expert Harry Enten delivers poll results on air to his colleagues, whether they want to hear it or not. On the first Friday of President Donald Trump's second term, he brought bad news to CNN morning anchor Kate Bolduan that a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found Trump had a net approval rating of plus-6.

This term is starting much differently...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The first daily press briefing of President Donald Trump 2.0 was not what many predicted last year. Before Trump re-took the White House, there had been speculation that Trump World would eject the daily press briefings from the James S. Brady briefing room with its 49 seats and standing room in the aisles.

That didn't happen. ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My brain works in threes. So now that President Donald Trump is back in the White House, here's a trifecta of things I'm experiencing. As I watch Trump abuse executive power and weaponize the federal government, my head is spinning, my heart is breaking and my blood is boiling.

It's disturbing how many of Trump's recent actions, ...Read more

There's little need to become an interplanetary country if we can't populate the country we already have.

President Donald Trump's inaugural address didn't just include an amazing list of things he wants to do. It cast an aspirational vision for Americans to rally around.

"The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation," ...Read more

In the days leading up to President Donald Trump's visit to Appalachian North Carolina, Monica Glowinski said her biggest prayer for the people of Buncombe County, which was devastated by the wrath of Hurricane Helene, was that Trump would not let their plight be forgotten.

"I am optimistic that President Trump is focusing his energies here,"...Read more

The federal government owns multiple trillions of dollars of federal assets -- from land, to buildings, to patent rights, to mineral rights, to immigrant visas, to oil fields to trucks and trains and unused office furniture equipment.

The government could earn well over $1 trillion and perhaps as much as $10 trillion by selling off these assets...Read more

First, let me say this out loud -- and even I can't believe what I'm about to say:

President Donald Trump has done more in his first four days than my old hero Ronald Reagan did in eight years.

I'm a conservative talk show host. I've hosted my national TV and radio shows for 10 years. Trump has already put in motion much, if not almost all, of...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Well, this is revealing. The Republican Party has no clothes. Due to a splattering of executive orders by President Donald Trump, conservatives are totally exposed. Everyone can finally see who they really are as opposed to who they pretend to be.

The first hint came this week when Trump issued a blanket pardon for more than 1,...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- My wife and I have tried to teach our kids to be good losers but also -- and just as importantly -- gracious winners.

Apparently, President Donald Trump never learned either lesson. His brattish reaction to his defeat in 2020 showed us that he's a terrible loser. And now that he has reclaimed the White House, we see that he's ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- There has been a lot of talk lately about the need to return respect and civility to politics.

Although I'm not sure I buy into the premise that those things were ever really part of politics, I welcome the sentiment nonetheless.

We should start with Senate confirmation hearings, if it's not already too late. There is too much ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Hyperbolic conservatives have long claimed that Mexico is staging an "invasion" of the United States.

For more than three decades, I've mocked these fools for their ignorance. But now I stand corrected. It's really happening. The Mexicans are actually invading, and they're starting by reclaiming the stolen parcel of land known as...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The media was too quick to move on from a recent MAGA civil war over H-1B visas, which allow companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers to fill specialty occupations.

We're not done yet. This is just the beginning of an argument that is likely to last all through President-elect Donald Trump's final term in office.

As will...Read more

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- I try not to criticize my country, or my countrymen, while standing on foreign soil. But I'll make an exception.

A lot of Americans have an annoying habit of feeling really passionate about subjects they don't really understand. What we lack in knowledge and wisdom, we make up for in ego and self-confidence.

In that ...Read more

Opinions are like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it’s completely ignored and you only notice it when it’s removed.

This is exactly what occurred to me when I observed the manufactured controversy involving Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post editorial board. The Amazon wunderkind’s ...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