At one point or another in his career, the political author is forced to sit down and write a column on a liberal bias in the media. Whatever his position, the columnist will almost invariably contribute nothing new or constructive to the debate, which seems to be solvable by facts, but is actually indifferent to […]
Author Archives: Garin Hovannisian
Uninformed votes thwart democracy
Dan proudly proclaims he’s a surfer. He tells me George W. Bush must be a Democrat, but he can’t be sure. He tells me also that John Kerry is the Republican challenger who supports invading Afghanistan. “What the hell is a proposition?” he inquires with no hint of curiosity when I ask him about several […]
Kerry can't, shouldn't try to be Kennedy
Presidential candidate John F. Kerry is most definitely not President John F. Kennedy. But as Kerry’s personal history and the history of his party reveal, it is not for a lack of will. Kennedy has been the silent but not inaudible icon of the Democratic Party. He has been the inspiration and the ideal behind […]
Carpool lane a vehicle of socialist ideology
Amid the confusion of the looming presidential elections and an unsettled war against terrorism, a subversive fifth-column movement is taking the United States in a new direction. The direction is inequality and socialism. The fifth column is the carpool lane. For decades the carpool lane has sabotaged the political and moral course of our land. […]
Kerry’s military past dubious
From the beginning, it was clear that self-congratulation would be the hub of democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry’s campaign. Conceived in sick irony, his opening remarks at the Democratic National Convention echoed: “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.” For several decades, the only issue candidate Kerry did not flip-flop on was his […]
GPA change means fairness
The University of California Board of Regents is considering a change in UC eligibility criteria that would increase the minimum GPA from 2.8 to 3.1 for undergraduate applicants. This generally would reduce student eligibility to the UC system to 12.5 percent of high school students, a statistic that the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education […]
Leave economics to the people
TSAGHKADZOR, Armenia ““”“ I have come on a whim to the Valley of Flowers, a vast expanse of forestry 40 miles outside Yerevan, Armenia’s capital city. For the past week, 150 high school economics students have stayed at a campsite here, both as reward for academic achievement and as an incentive for further involvement in […]