By Jason Mount It is surprising to me that a significant portion of our country’s citizens believe every action taken by our government and its presidents are selfish, money-driven, power-hungry, scandal-evading, or perhaps even personal vendettas. This is even more surprising considering their enemies slammed four of our airplanes filled with men, women and children into three of our buildings. Read more...

Cooked books. Defrauded investors. Bankruptcy. Is this WorldCom I’m describing? Enron, perhaps? Nope. It’s Social Security. For its entire 65-year history, Social Security has been less profitable and more corrupt than private investment. Read more...

Once again we the people of California find ourselves at the mercy of stupid politicians who don’t understand the laws of economics. In an attempt to escape the financial rut they have created for themselves, Democrats in the State Assembly have proposed a cigarette tax of $2.13 per pack. Read more...

Liu’s cartoon shows misunderstanding It was with great disappointment to see Jason Liu’s political cartoon (“Revenge”, August 19, 2002). Clearly he doesn’t know much about the history of the conflict, and his opinion is based only on what he’s seen and read in the US media. How else can one explain his failure to distinguish between terrorists bombing a university cafeteria and Israeli soldiers undertaking preventive measures to protect their citizens? Read more...

By Robert Walsh The Westwood Village Business Improvement District was created seven years ago, encompassing the area from Wilshire Boulevard to Le Conte, and from Gayley to Glendon. Its mission has been “to help create an environment in which the BID’s constituents may prosper.” When it was founded, retail storefronts were almost 25 percent vacant, and there were virtually no major real estate investments on the horizon. Read more...

By Robert Hennig As a non-tenured member of the faculty at UCLA, my job is to teach undergraduate courses. All told, I love my job and have given my best to approximately five thousand UCLA students. Read more...

By Justin Levi This year the Budget Review Committee was faced with two monumental challenges. First, it had roughly $30,000 less in base budget funds to allocate than last year. Read more...