Opinion

Simple Sanford deserves break

Political sex scandals are just about all the same. Man cheats on wife. Man gets caught. Man makes tight-lipped statement at a news conference, suffocated with awkwardness. Wife looks jaded and dead inside. Kids probably take up drugs shortly afterward. It's routine stuff, and we're left to file the adulterers away as pigheaded fellows who assumed their power excused them from the rules - of governance and of matrimony.

All marriage should be abolished

The gay marriage debate has evolved from a whisper of discontent to a roaring, mud-slinging brawl. The situation could be mildly called a snafu, and more accurately termed something I can't print in a newspaper. Everyone has an opinion. Not only do people stand on both sides of and astride the metaphorical fence, there are people tunneling underneath and flying overhead.

Letters:Fear leads to confusion over Second Amendment

Editor, Given the content of your opinion page recently, there obviously continues to be a great deal of confusion with regard to the Second Amendment. Nearly all of that confusion is quite intentional, arising from fear spawned in a bed of ignorance by those who seek to disarm Americans entirely.

Letters: Manny Ramirez: a bad role model and dishonest player

Editor, I love baseball. It is a refuge, a place where I can go and forget about the cares of the day. Time slows down, and all that matters is my team winning. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world. Manny Ramirez has been one of the best sluggers in baseball for the past several years.

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What's a degree really worth today?

It seems like every year, when the graduation fanfare has subsided and the confetti has reached the floor, graduates turn their eyes to the piece of paper standing in for four years of trial and tuition and ask a rather pressing question: "What did I just put myself through?" It's inevitable even in good times, much less a recession.

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NRA whips up fear, doubt regarding nation's gun law

Editor, Aimee Schafer, in common with most NRA supporters, is quick to cite part of the Second Amendment in her letter in the June 8 Daily Lobo. She says the amendment is clear, when in fact it is anything but. The full amendment reads: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Era of the cover-up continues

The Obama Administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. CIA chief Leon Panetta objected to Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was considering releasing detailed information on 92 videotaped CIA torture sessions of detainees.

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Obama's pandering alienates Israel

It has become the president's trademark, perhaps, to engage himself inside the comforting realm of The World That Should Be. In that world, the answers to America's conflicts with the Islamic world become easily resolvable, because we are one people with a shared destiny.

No need for more gun laws; just enforce the ones we have

Editor, I recently found out about the Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record Sale Act of 2009 (H.R. 45), which was referred to the House subcommittee on Feb. 2. This bill will amend section 922 of title 18 of the United States Code, which currently prohibits the sale of ammunition or firearms by those who are not licensed to a licensing program for everyone who owns a firearm.

From the Web

Comments on "Male professors should be run through sheep dip, shot," May 7. Professor James Burbank called for a euthanasia program for male professors at UNM in response to a letter stating that female professors are superior. Arthur Frederick Ide Posted May 7 All professors (without exception, regardless of rank or tenure status) should be tested for competency, yearly, in their subject field and be required to obtain a high score.

Column: Obama pick a debatable choice

Two student columnists - one conservative and one progressive - respond to President Barack Obama's choice of Sonia Sotomayor to be a Supreme Court justice. Chris Burks (Progressive) University of Arkansas President Obama's pick of Sonia Sotomayor represents the triumph of ideas.

Liberals are oblivious to technological impact

Editor, The sort of denial expounded upon by the mainstream environmental movement and the pseudo-hippie, neo-liberal know-it-alls who spout their "insights" into any willing ear brings light to the crisis facing not only education but our world as a whole.

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UNM should make recycling on campus more convenient

Editor, I am writing to voice my concern about the lack of recycling bins on campus. There are probably hundreds of garbage cans around campus, but only a few dozen recycling bins. Why is this? How hard would it be to remove half the garbage cans and replace them with recycling bins? Also, several recycling bins around the dorms have vanished.

Lobo acts as conduit for anti-Israel propaganda

Editor, Once again the Daily Lobo ("Speaker will discuss root of conflict in Middle East," Daily Lobo, May 11, 2009) functions as a conduit for anti-Israel propaganda - and on the front page no less. There is no shortage of ethnic and religious conflicts in the world.