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On the first day back at UCLA for the start of winter quarter, I began my usual morning ritual. A stale croissant from Bruin Café, an embarrassing scramble to collect new books I just bought and already lost, and of course, a quick [...]
Or the regents. Or Yudof. Why our state, once the darling of our union, is now its biggest joke. What makes our problems virtually unsolvable. And how we fucked ourselves — A letter from the founder
It’s a breezy 75 degrees in January, as I bob up and down in the shallow water by the Santa [...]
Back in 2003, as I walked down Landfair to vote in the recall of Gray Davis, I remember thinking what a bright future California had ahead of it. Here I was, about to be a part of the people of California’s final repudiation of big government, high taxes and far left interest groups’ stranglehold on [...]
The Daily Bruin has run a series of articles since the November elections calling on the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8 on constitutional grounds. Clearly, they do not understand the concept of a “constitutional amendment.”
In his latest book, “Liberty and Tyranny,” political commentator and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin describes the key founding features of the United States. Not the least of which is federalism.
Federalism, of course, is the unique relationship between the states and the national government designed to unite them. As Levin describes, this system and the tenth [...]
What do the President of the United States, a Supreme Court Justice and a 14 time Olympic gold medalist all have in common? They are all criminals thanks to a set of ridiculous federal laws.
And what is the unspeakable act that earned these accomplished individuals the disapproval of criminal law and the stigma associated with [...]
As you trudge to the polls Nov. 4th to decide who will be the most powerful person in the U.S., you also have the immense responsibility of voting on a number of initiatives. Here are our recommendations on how to wield your power.
The TGIF referendum will be another costly program with little oversight.
Soon, the cost of being a student at UCLA will increase yet again. Despite recent protests about the rising cost of tuition at the university, students indicated their willingness to pay more in student fees each quarter when they passed a referendum, known as The [...]
On June 3rd Californians will have the opportunity to reverse one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the tribunal’s over 200-year history. The Bruin Standard hopes that its readers will seize that opportunity and vote yes on Proposition 98. In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. City of New Haven that governments [...]
Chicken Little is at it again. Climate change has become a centerpiece of today’s social consciousness, and has demanded the immediate attention of the industrialized world. Countless meetings, summits, and poolside discussions have been held in an effort to save our world from this impending catastrophe. But maybe you shouldn’t trade your car in for [...]
It always feels good to know that we’re helping to save the environment by buying energy-efficient and clean products. That is why we should not buy hybrid cars.
Hybrids obviously use electricity in place of large amounts of polluting fossil fuels, but to judge the car by its fuel usage alone leaves out the cost in [...]