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Half a century ago, Congress approved the Controlled Substances Act, which established a system for classifying drugs based on their "medical use" and "potential for abuse." But as a recent report from the Government Accountability Office notes, the statute does not clearly define either criterion, opening the door to debatable and changeable ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- What's going on with Gavin Newsom?

Earlier this month, in a conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper that took place in a freezing-cold river in Montana where the two regular guys were supposedly fly-fishing, the 58-year-old California governor caught what he was really angling for: attention.

Newsom told Tapper that he would not run...Read more

I can’t wait to live in a condo again — because I’m addicted to long, hot showers.

Currently, I own a house and I have to pay for every extra ounce of water I use. In the condo, I will have help.

You see, there are 40 owners in my condo association, so I will pay only one-fortieth of the water bill, the gas to heat it and the sewage to ...Read more

During Pope Leo XIV's four-day visit to France, he was asked by reporters to share his thoughts on what the United States and China should do to prevent artificial intelligence from acting independently in a way that would threaten our everyday existence. He was very direct in his response, stating, "We can't just sit back and pretend nothing ...Read more

The home of Dwight Eisenhower and Amelia Earhart is rarely part of the national conversation -- but that could be about to change. It is becoming clear that the race for Senate this year could be a huge upset. In the 19th century, Kansas was the scene of violent clashes over slavery, which temporarily earned it the moniker "bleeding Kansas," ...Read more

"The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish," President Donald Trump declared on Monday. "It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS."

Trump was attempting to rebut the criticism provoked by his announcement last Friday that he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) and Politico "from the...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Change of plans, folks.

For the last several weeks, I've been planning to write a column on artificial intelligence (AI). It was going to be about how Americans need to chill and not worry so much about the possibility of AI replacing them or preventing their 20-something kids from getting jobs. The working title was going to be:...Read more

One of the fun things I love during the NFL season is getting into the back-and-forth banter on Facebook with my high school and college friends. One of my college classmates posts his weekly "Bum List," where he asks those of us whose teams lost the previous Sunday to still "rep" our squad. As a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, I have taken some ...Read more

In two states where school-choice vouchers are available, many parents are choosing Catholic schools. After my own Catholic school experience, I think I know why.

The school-choice fight

A school-choice battle has been under way in many states across the country.

Parents want vouchers so they can pay private-school tuition. Public-school ...Read more

On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not hitting my head. At home that night, I couldn't even bend my left elbow enough to remove my earrings or necklace. For those ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- How many of us are lucky enough in life to find ourselves exactly where we belong?

Vice President JD Vance is one lucky guy. This administration is a legit three-ring circus, where President Donald Trump reigns as the Ringmaster. And Vance has steady work serving as head clown.

Nearly every day, MAGA is faced with another ...Read more

President Donald Trump is trying to "shift the exercise of core tariff authority from Congress to the Executive Branch," three former trade officials warn in a brief they filed last week. If that sounds familiar, it's because Trump has attempted something similar twice before, only to be rebuffed by the courts.

This time around, the brief ...Read more

There aren’t enough rich people to tax to fund what Democratic Socialists of America candidates are promising.

The millionaire next door

When the DSA says "tax the rich," they want us to think of guys like Thurston Howell III, the "Gilligan's Island" millionaire with the condescending upper-class accent.

They want us to think the rich have ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Cops lie. That's a fact. Some of you won't like hearing it. But that doesn't make it any less true.

Frankly, I don't like hearing it. My father was on the job for 37 years, from 1966 to 2003. I was raised to look up to law enforcement officers, and to give them the benefit of the doubt -- at least most of the time. Cops are going...Read more

As I was watching 9/11 memorials on television, I kept thinking how hard it is to believe that a quarter-century has passed since that fateful September day in New York City. 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor for my generation, Gen X, and millennials. Like all Americans who were old enough to comprehend the devastatingly evil nature of the attacks on ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- California is the birthplace of Hollywood. Yet, if you were to write a script about the unlikely rise of unconventional Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton and his unorthodox campaign for the top job in the Golden State, no studio would buy it. The story is too far-fetched.

On immigration, who would have thought a one...Read more