Election season is dead ““ there is no doubt whatsoever
about that. The signs have been plucked from tidy lawns and
stickers peeled from otherwise lifeless automobiles.

Every November, a predictable group of progressives stuff the
Thanksgiving turkey with guilt. They stuff it with the guilt borne
by perpetrators of the “Indian holocaust,” sadistic
animal killers and inconsiderate Ebenezer Scrooges.

Thousands of years ago, food was eaten to survive. A lot has
happened in recent decades. Corporations, in all their greed, have
turned eating into a national pastime by making food that actually
tastes good.

This year, a $784 hike in fees hit UCLA students hard. Now,
Chancellor Albert Carnesale has announced that we will be hit a
good deal harder in the years ahead if we are to keep up with
competing private institutions.

Four years ago, the election was handed over for decision to the
Supreme Court of the United States because of legitimate issues in
vote counts and disenfranchisement.

The considerable shortcomings of both main-party candidates this
year have given rise to an exciting political phenomenon. President
Bush has been attacked for executing a plan in Iraq without ample
information and a prominent alliance.

President George W. Bush or Sen. John F. Kerry will win on Nov.
2. Everyone except the high-talking third-party candidates
themselves admits this ““ and even those candidates think it.

At one point or another in his career, the political author is
forced to sit down and write a column on a liberal bias in the
media.

Dan proudly proclaims he’s a surfer. He tells me George W.
Bush must be a Democrat, but he can’t be sure. He tells me
also that John Kerry is the Republican challenger who supports
invading Afghanistan.

Presidential candidate John F. Kerry is most definitely not
President John F. Kennedy. But as Kerry’s personal history
and the history of his party reveal, it is not for a lack of
will.