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SAN DIEGO -- Several weeks ago, after a column critical of President Obama, a woman wrote to say that she agreed with me.

SAN DIEGO -- A reader demands that the media stop pussyfooting around and call the new Arizona immigration law what it is: "The Mexican Removal Act." Too harsh? Not if...

SAN DIEGO -- For many Americans, the only thing that makes them angrier than having illegal immigrants stream in from Mexico is getting a lecture from the President of Mexico...

SAN DIEGO -- Just in time for Cinco de Mayo -- or as President Obama mistakenly referred to it at a White House reception last year marking the Mexican holiday,...

SAN DIEGO -- As someone who writes often about immigration issues, I'm accustomed to hearing readers complain about those who insist on looking backward and obsessing over their heritage. They...

SAN DIEGO -- Senate Republicans are once again going to extreme measures to force a national conversation about fiscal discipline. In a dramatic turnaround from the years where they were...

SAN DIEGO -- What's gotten into Lindsey Graham? The Republican senator from South Carolina has been working with New York Democrat Chuck Schumer to achieve what Graham calls the "tough...

SAN DIEGO -- The dust-up with Israel has some folks wondering if the Obama administration is going out of its way to be unfriendly to America's friends. Add Mexico to...

SAN DIEGO -- The immigration debate is back. And it's hard to find anyone who is pleased to see it return. Not Democrats, who see the immigration issue as one...

SAN DIEGO -- Just when you thought the health care debate couldn't get any more bizarre, it surpasses expectations. Now a Republican senator is drawing parallels with the debate over...

SAN DIEGO -- President Obama's political stock is plunging. But not everyone is ready to accept it. A recent story about the findings of a new Washington Post-ABC News poll...

SAN DIEGO -- President Obama had been getting high marks in his first year in office for what seemed to be an insightful approach to education reform. Too bad he...

SAN DIEGO -- I, for one, would have liked to have seen President Obama condemn racial and ethnic profiling in his lengthy and otherwise far-reaching State of the Union address...

SAN DIEGO -- Never mind pictures. Sometimes, a joke is worth a thousand words. Take this recent zinger from Conan O'Brien: "I just want to say to the kids out...