USAC hides how it spends your $121.38
On January 26, the Viewpoint page of the Daily Bruin found itself in a rather peculiar position: as the main source of news for the student body, it’s ironic to advocate less transparency in government. For with a stroke of the pen, the editorial board made its opinions on [...]
If you grew up male (as I did) you probably think of your hair as just a part of your head, for which you occasionally employ scissors and a comb to keep it under control and out of the way. At the same time, you were probably vaguely aware that matters hair-related might be a [...]
But Rich Shapero’s absurd story of nature and acid trips – entitled Wild Animus – definitely isn’t it.
They say you get what you pay for. In the case of Rich Shapero’s Wild Animus, nothing could be further from the truth. If you were one of the students who received – free of charge – the [...]
Meet the “pimp” whose work was so successful it inspired a South Park episode.
Scenario: Last summer James O’Keefe and his accomplice Hannah Giles walked into several offices of ACORN, a left-leaning poverty organization group, asking if they would help him set up a brothel. He had a hidden camera and a tape recorder. [...]
Los Angeles has decided what constitutes art, and is already prosecuting dissenters. “Throw the book at them,” said Councilman Jack Weiss of West Los Angeles and Hollywood, in an LA Times article by David Zahniser.
Did Councilman Weiss have his panties in a bunch over the giant transvestite clown sculpture in Santa Monica? Or maybe [...]
Columnist and “general” Andrew Breitbart discusses taking back the culture from the long held control and domination of the Hollywood and academic far left
It has been said that Republican is the new gay in Hollywood. If that is true, writer Andrew Breitbart is the guide of the closet that those LA conservatives are too afraid [...]
Ayn Rand is an icon. As a novelist and philosopher, she is as uncompromising in her views as her audacious characters: Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden and the infamous John Galt. She has the distinct honor of being denounced and denigrated by every major political party.
Today, her monumental work “Atlas Shrugged” is proving to be prophetic. [...]
Imagine you’re a factory owner during the Great Depression. You’re paying your workers 20 dollars per hour, but there’s a mob outside that says they’re willing to work for five dollars an hour. So you can quadruple the amount of people you hire for the same cost.
Except that it’s illegal to pay people below minimum [...]
The Arts feature in this issue (see above) argues for novelist Ayn Rand’s renewed relevance. I wish to qualify that relevance. Rand is a writer more useful for the ideas she dispels than the ideas she proposes.
Rand’s proposed system, called Objectivism, is a forthright philosophic materialism in both its ethics and its metaphysics. In [...]
UCLA students stole the show with a spectacular performance in their rendition of Into the Woods, a musical performed at MacGowan Hall on April 2 to April 5, 2009. This play combines several Brothers Grimm fairy tales into a unique story, whose plots interweave by a combination of different circumstances, and all of the main [...]
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 [...]