This year’s forgery scandal was just another in years of corruption by the traditionally dominant slate.
Three and a half million dollars. That’s how much money, give or take, your student government council will control next year. This comes from mandatory student fees collected from you annually to the tee of $120, and for the majority [...]
In February, the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles made a ruling that, if enforced, would effectively ban homeschooling in California. The California state educational code allows that children may be taught at home, but by a credentialed tutor, else they must attend a public or private school. The code does not [...]
At long last the Supreme Court seems prepared to rule on what really should be unremarkable and uncontroversial: that the Second Amendment means exactly what it says. The case is District of Columbia v. Heller and is a challenge to Washington D.C.’s notorious handgun ban. Unfortunately a swirl of controversy surrounds the case, because [...]
On student government and the upcoming elections
I provide some background into Students First! in our lead article, but I’d like this opportunity to invoke the memory of another slate.
As a transfer student, I wasn’t around for Slate Refund, which took a lively but unsuccessful third-party stab for student government in Spring 2006. Their platform was [...]
UCLA has four programs with Planned Parenthood, the country’s most aggressive abortion provider. It should drop these programs. Planned Parenthood habitually breaks the law and targets certain races for abortion. Last fall, a UCLA activist group caught PP on tape telling young girls to lie about their age to avoid rape laws. Now, just last [...]
Helen Keller once said, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Yeah, she wasn’t biased. Of course many of the most beautiful things in the world can be seen. Keller’s bromide is just another example of the self-delusion encouraged by official [...]
As the stage was being set for main act, the crowd was buzzing with a variety of languages, including English, Armenian, Greek, Farsi, Spanish and Arabic. It was as if four different genres of music were to play that night. Hipsters, punk rockers, college students, young couples, and F.O.B.s alike mingled near the stage’s edge. [...]
Book Review: Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg
For about fifty years running, the more sophomoric of our American liberals have, finding argument failing them, made occasional recourse to ad hominem and vitriol, calling their opponents “fascists.” The word satisfies a need in our economy of insult. It is less inflammatory than Nazi (which remains a favorite), [...]
On February 27, 2008, American conservatives lost the man who developed the robust, unified conservative movement of the 1980s and 1990s. William F. Buckley, Jr., identified by historian George H. Nash as “arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century,” died in Stamford, Conn., at the age of [...]
It was April 5, 2008, when America lost Charlton Heston, the iconic figurehead of the National Rifle Association and prominent conservative, whose resonating voice was heard across decades in the fight for civil liberties and support for Second Amendment rights. The legendary actor will be remembered not only as El Cid, John the Baptist, [...]
ARIES
Liberal: It’s 3 a.m. Your phone is ringing. You hear a shrill female voice yelling from downstairs, “I GOT IT!” You recognize that voice to be Hillary Clinton. What the hell is she doing in your house?
Conservative: It’s 3 a.m. Your phone is ringing. It’s Homeland Security checking up on your Arab [...]