LUBBOCK, Texas “”mdash; With all the foreign policy straight out of the neo-imperialist handbook, President Bush seems to have found time somewhere between working out and ignoring cries for help to try to keep homosexual marriages illegal. Read more...

The first in a series of submissions on the crisis in Liberia. I would not say that Charles MacArthur Taylor, president of Liberia, is a political creation of the United States even though in 1985 he mysteriously escaped from a high security prison in Massachusetts, where he had been incarcerated for 15 months pending extradition to Liberia for having stolen a considerable sum of money from an agency in the Liberian government. Read more...

History is being made in California ““ soon the people will face their first recall election. A special election is taking place in October to allow the people to decide whether or not to keep Gray Davis as governor. Read more...

Kobe Bryant’s Aug. 6 trial hearing will draw more media attention than did this year’s NBA Finals. Even now, weeks before the prosecution or defense has had a chance to lay down their case, millions have already passed judgment on the young Laker, fueling online polls about Kobe’s guilt or innocence. Read more...

Ask a Christian how he or she feels about televangelist Pat Robertson, and you will probably get a variety of reactions. A few might swear by the value of his television show, “The 700 Club,” and may watch it almost as religiously as they attend church services. Read more...

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I am writing in response to the column regarding the recent raise of student fees by the UC Regents (“Fee increase rational budgetary remedy,” July 7). Read more...