President George W. Bush should not profess to care about people
against whom he is about to deploy an army. 
Time and again, Bush has claimed (most recently in last
week’s State of the Union Address) that the Iraqi people will
welcome the United States to their country because we will be their
liberators. But he is careful to avoid explicitly drawing the
connection between the reason to go to war and the welfare of the
Iraqi people.

Protests are back and hopefully they’re here to stay.
The protest, a classic American way of expressing opinion, has
had little relevance or impact in the past decade.

The “party of Lincoln” has turned into the
“party of Lott.”
Trent Lott, embarrassed by his comments that the country would
have been better off if segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond won
the presidency in 1948, resigned as incoming Senate majority leader
because it would have been politically disastrous for Republicans
if he stayed.

Walking down Bruin Walk this week, there was yet another set of
signs in the grass. But unlike previous Undergraduate Students
Association Council election signs or the Halloween
“graveyard,” this California Public Interest Research
Group display had a positive message: People can be a force for
positive change.

Tuesday’s election was a disaster ““ not only for
Democrats, but for all Americans. Voters went to the polls, in
record numbers in some districts, and somehow decided a unified
Republican government is in our country’s best interests.

The latest court ruling from the most liberal appeals court in
the country has pot users and suffering patients rejoicing while
the government cringes.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Tuesday
that doctors who recommend marijuana primarily to patients
suffering from cancer, AIDS and glaucoma cannot have their
physician’s license taken away, nor can the federal
government threaten to investigate them recommending medicinal
marijuana.

The voters blame the politicians. The politicians blame the
voters. Nobody takes responsibility for the uninformed,
uninterested population. And nobody blames what may be the largest
source of voter ignorance yet: the media.

While our President is preoccupied with Iraq, a sniper is on the
loose near the nation’s capital, using a legally attainable
weapon to murder innocent victims.

The actions of one fundamental religious group ““
Christians ““ are an appalling testament to the direction
America is headed.
Merely two days after the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept.

The United States economy has lost one billion dollars every day
since Sunday, and we can’t blame it all on the stock market.
It’s the result of a tense contract dispute.