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Nothing to show for lowered standards

By Isaiah KramerThe Guardsman California was not awarded a grant for Race to the Top, the federal program that motivates states to reform education.This means that potentially $700 million for use in helping our bankrupt education budget will now go to other states.Race to the Top pitted states

Intelligent design not very scientific

By Dominick DelgadilloThe Guardsman A young boy looks up at his mother and asks, “How does a bee fly?” The mother, not knowing the answer replies, “Because God wants it to.” The previous dialogue is based on true events that occurred at, of all places, the Academy of Sciences, when

Editorial: Who owns San Francisco's sidewalks?

The outrageous actions of these out-of-control vagrants are portrayed as a city-wide epidemic by the pro-sit-lie crowd, and cited as justification for the revival of a misguided law, which criminalizes use of public space.

Apples and Oranges or: How the Christian Legal Society spent thier summer vacation

the Christian Legal Society denied membership to an openly gay student, and yet still expected that same student to subsidize their club. Anybody can see how ridiculous this is. A student shouldn’t have to pay fees that go right back to organizations that discriminate against him or her.

Remote control combat blurs ethics

Technology combined with the lust for war is making killing easier — virtually.

Drivers on "FasTrak" to empty pockets

Drivers who make use of the carpool lanes on the Bay Bridge are now charged a toll fee of $2.50 and have been since the first of July. That’s the bad news. The good news? Well, there doesn’t seem to be much good news about this.

'Mosque' opponents no champions of Democracy

“The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer,” Paul wrote.