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Seatbelts Are My Savior, Thanks to the CHP

Dear California Office of Traffic Safety, Thanks so much for caring about me. Really, I appreciate it. Not since I was a child, when...

Abstinence-Only Sex Education Fails to Teach Truth

Doesn't the old saying go that we have to make the future a better place for our children? Well, with a new bill...

Where’s the Fun In Agreeing to Disagree?

I usually hate it when people bandy around insightful quotes like so much sentimental, meaningless, pseudo-intellectual regurgitation. But a high school teacher of mine once said, 'If everybody is in agreement, that means that nobody is thinking.'

Congressional Priorities Backwards

In a unique display of bipartisan solidarity, congressmen of both parties voiced their moral outrage against what they felt was an unlawful act...

Separating Immigrant Families Inhumane

It's no wonder government bureaucracy gets a bad rap when one hears of situations that completely ignore the intention of the law. In...

Financial Aid Is Not a Basic Human Right

Based only on its name, it seems foolish for anyone to oppose Senate Bill 160. Called the 'California Dream Act,' it has already been passed by the California State Senate and now is being considered in the State Assembly. But for those stakeholders int

‘Genocide’ Does Not Describe Middle East

If the Mexican government were sending suicide bombers across the border to blow up buses and nightclubs, I would hope that the American government would build a wall to keep them out. In my opinion, that is not a racist policy.

Universal Preschool Is a Benefit to Society

Research on early childhood development has consistently yielded results that illustrate the benefits of a preschool and kindergarten education.

New Leadership for LAUSD

Budget cuts, outdated textbooks and dangerously high high school drop-out rates are just some of the reasons why Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed a restructuring of Los Angeles Unified schools.

California Risks Trivializing Gay History

Comparatively speaking, it's good to be gay in California. For instance, last year's bill approving gay marriage passed in the state legislature and didn't get scrapped by the lack of blue-blooded liberals in Sacramento; it was Gov. Schwarzenneger's ambig

Yossi Olmert’s Statements Invite Terrorism

Yossi Olmert made his extremist views against the Palestinian people and the nation of Iran clear on May 17 during a talk entitled 'Israel: A Discussion of Recent Events'.

Requirements Unnecessary

I've done my time. In order to avoid taking a foreign language in college, I took three years of French in high school. Three years in a class taught by a phlegmatic, 70-year-old woman who told us how great the war in Iraq was because her husband was an

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