Opinion: In today’s pages: Hillary Clinton healthcare, Blackwater breakdown

Opinion: In today’s pages: Hillary Clinton healthcare, Blackwater breakdown


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The editorial board responds to the Blackwater USA investigation in Iraq:


The board also argues that the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cuts were a smart move even if they sent mixed signals. Finally, the board encourages the Los Angeles school district to learn


some lessons from its award-winning southern neighbor.


George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein says that even if Erwin Chemerinsky is back at U.C. Irvine, academic freedom remains elusive in the face of the far left. Columnist


Ronald Brownstein compares Hillary Clinton’s latest healthcare plan to her failed 1993 initiative. New America Foundation fellow Douglas McGray writes in support of the DREAM act, which


would grant conditional citizenship to young illegal immigrants. And writer Erika Schickel thinks parents could use a ditch day.


Readers respond to columnist Niall Ferguson’s claim that Rudy Giuliani is a risky choice for president. Irvine’s Amy Smith says, ‘The one issue on which Rudy Giuliani is staking his campaign


is 9/11. He ties everything to that event, no matter how absurd....’