Speaker invited for the wrong reasons Contrary to the assertions in a recent letter to the editor (“Rabbi should consider new points of view,” Jan. 18), I, a veteran political dissenter vis-a-vis the Middle East, have always welcomed alternative views. Read more...

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Genetic screening challenges the natural order of human life, as parents all over the world now have the disturbing option to customize their children. Earlier this week, the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics presented its fifth annual symposium, “The Genetic Marketplace: A Citizen’s Guide to the Genomic Bazaar,” to explore concerns regarding advances in human genetics research. Read more...

The SAT is to the GRE as (a) tension headache is to migraine, (b) USC is to Harvard, (c) abhorrence is to repugnance. I’m bored. Next! Read more...

Choice belongs in women’s hands I was neither bothered nor surprised to find a column in the Daily Bruin that countered my personal and political sentiments about abortion (“Roe revised stance; so should U.S.,” Jan. Read more...

This board found President George W. Bush’s State of the Union Address mind-numbing and poorly written. The following transcript is what we would have liked to have heard in his speech: My fellow Americans. Read more...

Harmony is being restored to the political world. Fox News has resumed its shameless slander of Democrats, Democrats appear to be working on an agenda to distinguish themselves from black holes, and all of the hoopla surrounding the recent exploratory committees of Sen. Read more...