Current debate says policy must pick people or the environment
Environmentalists are lucky—the face of their cause is the irresistible giant panda, the patriotic bald eagle, the Siberian tiger, etc. etc. It’s so easy to cry out “Save the animals! Stop destroying Mother Nature!” because there really is no one who wouldn’t love to protect the [...]
It was August in Lithuania. I, twenty-four years old, sat on the floor with the other students. We spoke in Yiddish among ourselves, but our voices were kept soft; the authorities couldn’t know about our meeting. A man with a beard, a noted scholar, stood up and told us why he had not spoken with [...]
Recently, the communists have been out in force on campus dedicating a lot of time and vocal chords excoriating the failure of capitalism and how communism is the eventual answer. Capitalism, however, has overwhelmingly been a force for raising the standard of living across all levels of socioeconomic status.
The recent financial crisis has less to [...]
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. [...]
How our troops should approach waging the war in Afghanistan by building trust with locals
After several years of lenses pointed solely on Iraq, and two years of adoration over a Chicago politician who would end up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the realities of a land that most Americans didn’t even know existed before 9/11 [...]
State economic crisis cuts funding while students vote for fee increases
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the lights are out at Night Powell for the 2009-2010 academic year, though they’ll flicker a little during finals week. So not even the library, the sanctuary for studying students, has avoided the budget cuts. According to the [...]
If the first rule to surving in Zombieland is “Cardio” then the second rule is “Answer the question: What would Reagan do?”
I recently saw the movie Zombieland. As a relatively well-educated and sophisticated young person, I have come to the informed and deliberate conclusion that Zombieland is a freaking kick-ass piece of cinematic achievement.
I walked [...]
Some opinions on the age old question
In Why Are Jews Liberal?, longtime Commentary Magazine editor-in-chief and Congressional Medal of Honor awardee Norman Podhoretz attempts to provide a definitive answer to one of the most perplexing anomalies in American politics. After all, considering their choice of professions and traditionally strong family values, Jews seem odd candidates [...]
ARIES
LIBERAL: Your support for universal coverage will wane after attending a Middle Eastern “universal coverage” party.
CONSERVATIVE: Your support for universal coverage will bloom after you see all the hot burkas at your Middle Eastern “universal coverage” party.
TAURUS
LIBERAL: You will purge the memories of your chubby past along with all that turkey and stuffing you will [...]
Fiefdom: $3.8 million
Soapbox: Endless Reforendums
Offense: Benefitting the few at the expense of the many
Question: So…can I get a scholarship too?
In the March 2009 issue of The Bruin Standard, our Academian Nut was described as being “like the peanut” of the bunch. For this edition of our feature, we ask you to turn to the whole bag [...]
TGIF referendum collected student fees and did very little
The snazzy purple t-shirts, free sunglasses, bags, and ice cream giveaways seem to have paid off. The PLEDGE initiative on this year’s USAC ballot passed with 50.3% of the vote (passing by just 52 votes), raising student fees from $119.97 to $158.22 a year.
This is not [...]