Courtney Stevens

January 16, 2007

Liberty Belle: Higher Education Fails to Pass Test

By Courtney Stevens

Higher Education in America has floated lazily down the river of complacency and emerged in a sea of mediocrity, where it is presently being pulled by a strong current of denial toward a steep waterfall where a sparkling...

January 9, 2007

Liberty Belle

By Courtney Stevens

While you may have still been recovering from New Year's or belaboring the imminent start of the quarter, the 110th Congress began in earnest. New members were sworn in, the Democratic majority materialized, San Francisc...

November 28, 2006

Liberty Belle

By Courtney Stevens

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Turkey today, amid a storm of protest that began promptly with the announcement of his visit more than a week ago. The pope's visit is another of his efforts to mend the long-standing acrimon...

November 21, 2006

Don’t Get All Up In My Grill, Brother

By Courtney Stevens

Racism is perhaps the most wretched of humanity's glitches. Racism is disgusting and appalling - unless committed by an African-American.The broad array of issues and situations in which the term is implicated today is i...

November 14, 2006

Liberty Belle: Republicans’ Scandals Act as Party Buzzkills

By Courtney Stevens

The Democrats are the superior political party. I admit it. At the game of politics which, according to dictionary.com, means "taking advantage of a political situation or issue, exploiting a political system or politica...

November 7, 2006

Liberty Belle: Props, Bonds Suck Californians Dry

By Courtney Stevens

I realize Californians are known for their rather hasty decision-making and Isla Vista residents are known for their "I-don't-really-give-a-shit-about-shit, man" mindset, but voting is one of the few situations where the...

October 31, 2006

Liberty Belle: Uninformed Voters Harm CA Economy

By Courtney Stevens

As Americans, and particularly as Californians, we have a tendency to approach problems in two ways. The first is to throw money at it - or at least impose a new tax to coerce money from the state's highest earners - and...

October 24, 2006

Liberty Belle: Censorship Should Not Be Tolerated

By Courtney Stevens

The sparks of controversy that ignited over the recent visit of distinguished political analyst and author David Horowitz really got me thinking. The more I thought, the more I worried. The irony of one reader's insisten...

October 20, 2006

Liberty Belle: Immigration Policies Are Too Lenient

By Courtney Stevens

Do you ever sit around, maybe in the slow stretch between your X-rated AIM chats with young boys and cashing in the millions you made from your fraudulent land sales and just spend time thinking about ways to screw over ...

October 10, 2006

Federal Government Goes Too Far

By Courtney Stevens

The American public seems to be losing faith in its government. Only 30 percent of American citizens are satisfied with the state of the nation, according to the Pew Research Center, and a whopping 36 percent surveyed be...

October 3, 2006

Liberty Belle: UCLA Concocts Unfair Process of Admissions

By Courtney Stevens

The two most dangerous and deplorable tendencies of the liberals are in full effect in the latest effort of the UC system to alter admissions: the liberal intelligentsia's contention that they know better than the averag...

September 24, 2006

Exit Exam Prevents Future Failure

By Courtney Stevens

Every year, several seniors awaiting their high school diploma must devote three hours of their summer to prove minimal competence in math and language. However, in light of California's abominable education system condi...