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SAN DIEGO -- My father's love affair with policing was sparked decades ago by a children's book that featured a cat stuck in a tree.

The book was part of a series that was popular in the 1950s. The main characters were two children named Dick and Jane, and they had two pets: a dog and a cat. One day, the cat climbs up a tree. A friendly ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I love the smell of vindication in the morning. I'm getting a strong whiff now that at least some conservatives are finally acknowledging something I've tried to get them to confront for years: Anti-Semitism is alive and well within the Republican Party.

As a Mexican American who is horrified by ethnocentric immigration raids, I ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- This Thanksgiving dinner, Vice President JD Vance might need a taste tester.

The Yale Law School graduate has for years benefited from the assumption that he's a smart cookie. Yet Vance has a knack for saying dumb things, and that's when the public image begins to crumble.

Last month, when Politico published hundreds of racist ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- With elections, as with individuals, appearances can be deceiving.

At first glance, Election Day 2025 appeared to be small and inconsequential. The national media were focused on a literal handful of races in this off-year election, and the coverage wrapped up early given that most of those electoral contests were on the East ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- America, make up your mind! When it comes to immigrants, your contradictions are big and loud and hard to square.

Let's start with the big one: America is the land of immigrants, and yet it has never liked immigrants.

Then there is this one: We insist that immigrants speak English, but companies market to them in Spanish.

And ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Democrats are in crisis because they lost their way, gave up their bite and muddled their identity. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch.

The scoreboard doesn't tell the whole story. Low on points, Democrats appear to have been beaten. The truth is, they forfeited. They've been lazy, complacent, arrogant and too ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- In California, voters are accustomed to supporting lousy ballot initiatives because we believe the alternative to be much worse.

But Prop. 50, a redistricting initiative that attempts to offset what Texas did recently when the Lone Star State redrew five congressional seats to flip them from favoring Democrats to favoring ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I recently attended my 40th high school reunion which, as expected, left me feeling "happy-sad."

You get the joy of stepping back in time and spending a few hours reminiscing with old friends -- some of whom you've known since you were in kindergarten eating graham crackers and drinking from milk cartons. But before you know it, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Try not to look too surprised when I say this, but President Donald Trump is hung up on race.

And the condition is not limited to just one person. The old proverb dictates that "the fish rots from the head." So it is that -- when it comes to race -- Vice President JD Vance, Trump's advisers, Cabinet officials, MAGA supporters and...Read more