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With the 2025 college football season underway, the Ohio State Buckeyes are hoping to defend their national title and once again forge their way through the playoffs. Their path to the title of beating four ranked teams was epic last year, especially after a disappointing loss to Michigan. Their victories over Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The first rule of communications strategy goes like this: If you don't define yourself, your enemies, adversaries and competitors will gladly do it for you, and often in unflattering terms.

That's true with businesses, causes and nonprofit organizations. It's especially true in politics, where another version of the same idea ...Read more

In separate attacks this month, the U.S. military blew up two speedboats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 14 alleged drug smugglers. Although those men could have been intercepted and arrested, President Donald Trump said he decided summary execution was appropriate as a deterrent to drug trafficking.

To justify this unprecedented use of the U.S...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Dear America, I don't mean to sound ungrateful. Really, I don't. Uncle Sam and I have always been on good terms.

But I must ask: Can migrants to the United States get a do-over?

More than a century ago, my Mexican grandfather and his parents chose the United States over Mexico. Unable to make a living in their own country -- ...Read more

As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our nation to a dangerous edge of no return. Other media outlets did a rollcall of recent shooting ...Read more

The rush to exonerate Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart of MAGA.

In the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street Journal July scoop about the smarmy message Trump included in the book of friendly tributes assembled in 2003 for Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday, Vice President ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Brace yourselves. The story of political violence in America is not as bad as you think. I'm afraid it's much worse.

It's not just that awful things happen. It's that when they happen, many Americans get unhinged. We have trouble being honest, staying rational and not going too far in one direction or another.

If the tragic tale...Read more

When Justice Department officials anonymously floated the idea of prohibiting gun possession by transgender people last week, they may have hoped to score points with President Donald Trump's base or get a rise out of "woke" Democrats. Instead they elicited howls of outrage from every major gun rights group.

It is not hard to see why. This ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I'm calling time of death on colorblindness.

The concept was in style for a minute after the Supreme Court, in 2023, struck down affirmative action in college admissions and said all applicants should be treated equally.

The self-righteous preached that Americans should relate to one another simply as members of one race (the ...Read more

The 62nd anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom passed kind of quietly on Aug. 28. The Rev. Al Sharpton led a protest march through Manhattan's Financial District in an attempt to influence businesses and corporations not to end their diversity, equity and inclusion policies. He continued to push for the boycott of stores ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Are we winning yet? Donald Trump promised that -- if he were elected president once, let alone twice -- Americans would start winning so much that we'd get tired of it.

Part of that scenario came true. President Trump and his band of outlaws are exhausting. That's the point. By generating chaos and creating distractions, Trump ...Read more

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) last week reintroduced a bill that would repeal the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, which he says jeopardizes student and teacher safety by prohibiting armed defense against violent intruders. As I explain in my new book "Beyond Control," that law is also problematic for two constitutional reasons.

The GFSZA, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- It's a simple concept that has somehow eluded the knuckleheads in the Trump administration: You can't break the rules to show people that they have to follow the rules. You can't violate the law while trying to enforce the law.

As they round up, arrest and deport people who have allegedly broken the law, administration officials ...Read more

These are dark days for American lovers of liberty, so any glimmers of light are especially welcome.

Let's start with "Sandwich Man." The world knows him as the pink-shirted guy who shouted at federal agents patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. After some aggressive language and pungent invitations to get lost, Sean C. Dunn then tossed a ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- This Labor Day, here's a tip that might save you work down the line: Listen to your elders, especially when they're giving you advice about how to raise your kids.

I'm just the messenger. So let me say upfront the valuable advice a group of wise senior citizens recently shared with me and told me to pass along to you: Make sure ...Read more

On a Friday in March 2021, Brian Moore, an aspiring rap artist, was about to catch a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, where he planned to produce a video that he hoped would promote his musical career. To pay for the video, he was carrying $8,500 in cash, money he had inherited from his late grandfather.

Federal drug agents put an end to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom is bringing a whoopee cushion to a constitutional crisis.

By mocking President Donald Trump on social media, Newsom thinks he is making voters laugh. What he is really doing is making a big mistake.

These are dark days for our democracy. And like the saying goes: When the going gets tough, the tough....Read more

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health collapse. We are on the verge of, at best, a health crisis and, at worst, a societal collapse with 20% of GDP going to health ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Think of the valuable lessons we learned as children.

Be kind. Think of others. Share your toys. Treat others as you want to be treated. Show hospitality to those who visit your home.

Perhaps we're taught to behave properly by parents or grandparents, or by teachers and coaches, or by friends and society. Wherever the ...Read more

As a presidential candidate in 2016, Marco Rubio defended the conventional understanding of birthright citizenship, which contradicts the view embraced by the administration he currently serves as secretary of state. The contrast is especially striking because Rubio is one of the defendants in federal lawsuits challenging President Donald ...Read more