Americans have a reputation for imposing their values upon others. But to be “fair,” it should be pointed out that the morality police are just as active on our own soil, defining right and wrong and punishing accordingly. Read more...

Recently, UC Regent Ward Connerly brought a resolution before the UC Regents attempting to discontinue university funding for student activities based on race, national origin and sexual orientation. Read more...

New rule: No do-overs. Once you elect an official, unless he runs off with public funds or gets caught with kiddie porn, you’re stuck with him,” said notorious comedian Bill Maher on a recent HBO airing of his show, “Real Time.” Considering what’s going on in California, it doesn’t seem like many would agree with Maher. Read more...

Regarding your editorial on the recall effort (“Recall effort only distracts state leaders,” July 28), though you are correct in your characterization of Darrell Issa as engaging in political opportunism, there are many leaps of logic in your condemnation of the Davis recall that must be brought into question. Read more...

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LUBBOCK, Texas “”mdash; With all the foreign policy straight out of the neo-imperialist handbook, President Bush seems to have found time somewhere between working out and ignoring cries for help to try to keep homosexual marriages illegal. Read more...

The first in a series of submissions on the crisis in Liberia. I would not say that Charles MacArthur Taylor, president of Liberia, is a political creation of the United States even though in 1985 he mysteriously escaped from a high security prison in Massachusetts, where he had been incarcerated for 15 months pending extradition to Liberia for having stolen a considerable sum of money from an agency in the Liberian government. Read more...