“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting,” reads section 31, article 1 of the California constitution. This section was put in place Nov. 1996 through [...]
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 [...]
Prom night gone horribly wrong
Nowadays, Hamas is often in the news, alternately described as a militant group and as the democratically elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza. Both are accurate.
If you enter the word “Hamas” into a search engine, you’ll find that Hamas sees itself as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a [...]
Bipartisanship—it’s overrated.
There is a cult of thought that has people believing that we all must get along and agree before we can act. As the Democrats in Congress have recently shown, they’re not afraid to be partisan and lock Republicans out of making changes to the stimulus bill. Good for them.
On the other side of [...]
I think—and have always thought—that prostitution is one of the most vile institutions in the world today. It is certainly immoral and even potentially dangerous. To put it bluntly, prostitution just ain’t pimpin’.
So naturally, I believe it should be legalized.
At the risk of sounding trite, hey! It’s a free country—and we should do everything in [...]
Prostitution has become a multi-billion dollar business—both here and abroad. It enslaves and brainwashes women who often do not even receive the financial benefits of their dirty business.
Some argue that legalization would make prostitution safer for the people who were going to be involved in it anyway. But by far the safer option is [...]
In an attempt to cope with a population of enthusiastic and underage drinkers, our school had to find a strategy. UCLA’s alcohol policy allegedly focuses on two primary areas: student safety and encouraging better decision making. However, this more accurately reads “we don’t want to see it, so go drink off-campus.” The inconsistency and hypocrisy [...]
There is something rotten in the Halls of Congress. Talk of reinstating the long discarded “Fairness Doctrine” is brewing among some prominent Democrat congressmen including John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Tom Harkin. The left is not satisfied that Democrats now control both houses of Congress by wide margins and the White House is occupied by [...]
Earlier this quarter, our undergraduate student government USAC, issued a resolution entitled “A Call for the Immediate End to the Recent Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza.” This document attacked, vilified, and belittled the Israeli Defense Force, the leaders of Israel, and anyone who supported their actions in Gaza.
Questions arose in my mind as I read it. [...]
This is old news, but it deserves record. Last November in the Ackerman Ballroom, there was a student-funded porn show: Pirates 2, a “big budget” maritime suckfest. It was two hours of—well—dicks in chicks in ships. The movie’s novel use of sexual anatomy would make an OB blush. The ballroom was packed.
Judging from the [...]
When you ask people to describe Wicked, the Broadway show, you’ll usually get one of several responses. “A teeny-bopper musical,” “a Disney movie on stage,” or, somewhat more charitably, “an attempt to get young people interested in musical theatre.” Each description points to a different aspect of Wicked’s pop culture appeal, that is, to its [...]