We asked students what they thought about President Bush’s new economic growth package with $674 billion worth of tax cuts. Here’s what they had to say: Anthony Salazar Fourth-year, MCD bio I believe he cut the dividend tax so he could stimulate spending but it’s going to benefit the rich because they have more resources and more money invested, so they’ll be compounding more interest. Read more...

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. Read more...

It was politics as usual, as usual, for Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday. In his State of the State address Davis tried to sound strong by saying his budget “makes hard choices” and that his efforts to create more jobs “faced the problem head-on,” but Davis’ tough language masks the same old rhetoric. Read more...

When the founding delegates to the United Nations met after World War II to draw up rules for the new international body, they envisioned economic sanctions as a humane alternative to military intervention for encouraging better behavior from recalcitrant governments. Read more...

Human beings age. It’s a natural part of life and few would treat the idea with much alarm. But when the person aging is a U.S. Read more...

Carson High shares blame for assault I was shocked to hear of the sexual assault at UCLA on December 6th, but what truly angered me was finding out that the suspects were prospective students. Read more...

Don’t be deceived by the encouraging words of President George W. Bush about his recently released economic growth package. To say the plan is “a very fair plan” that will provide “tax relief to working citizens … which creates more jobs,” is overly optimistic and just plain ignorant. Read more...