Smokers to unfairly bear deficit burden In the midst of a financial crisis, the California state Legislature has found an easy way to try to balance the budget: Pick on the little guy. Read more...

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The Undergraduate Student Association Council chose the wrong year to start a budgetary revolution. Despite being given roughly $30,000 less in discretionary funds by the Associated Students of UCLA than last year’s council, it is trying to drastically increase the amount of funding some groups receive. Read more...

Taxpayers have Starr to blame It has been reported that former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have asked a court to have taxpayers reimburse them for legal costs related to the massively expensive, multi-year Whitewater investigation. Read more...

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By Joel Schwartz We just worked so hard to save your baby, and last night I had to kill a healthier one.” These chilling words, spoken by a crying nurse, were said to my father after I had survived a blood transfusion and an operation allowing my two months premature lungs to work. Read more...

By Michelle Singer President Bush has maintained throughout his national political life that he is a compassionate man not easily swayed by political polling or interest groups. Read more...