The notion of a “right” to health care is merely a perversion of the concept of rights. Any system that seeks to fulfill this “right” is, ironically, a system that violates the actual rights of almost everyone involved. Read more...
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January 30, 9:00 pm
Public care violates rights
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January 29, 9:00 pm
Editorial Cartoon
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January 29, 9:00 pm
Bipartisan consensus could fix Iraq
President Bush has never been one for apologies or admitting mistakes. His “Wild Wild West” attitude might seem charming to a movie audience, but it is hardly an attitude befitting the leader of the free world. Read more...
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January 29, 9:00 pm
Professors should explore new ways to engage students in lecture
Reading some of the professor reviews on BruinWalk is like reading death threats. They read something like, “AVOID THIS PROFESSOR AT ALL COSTS!!!!! The lectures are boring, terrible and only good for doing crossword puzzles.” However, the real culprit for ineffective learning is not the professor but rather the restrictions of the traditional lecture setting. Read more...
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January 29, 9:00 pm
Global warming threat overblown
The notion that global warming represents a threat of impending doom is commonly portrayed as indisputable fact, one entirely beyond discussion. We are told, as in Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,” that the warming trend may kill countless numbers of people living in coastal regions as melting glaciers raise the sea level. Read more...
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January 28, 9:00 pm
L.A. gang problem needs better solutions
There’s a war going on, and it’s not overseas. It’s right here in Los Angeles. Last month, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down by gang members as she stood on the sidewalk. Read more...
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January 28, 9:00 pm
Letters to the Edtior
MSA aids tolerance, not terrorists The day Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed, Robert F. Kennedy said, “Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” The savageness of man doesn’t know a religion. Read more...