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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Editor, There is no excuse for Israel's invasion of Gaza. Past atrocities can neither justify current crimes nor silence the protest against them. Nothing justifies the Israeli carnage in Gaza. Those who attempt to rationalize this slaughter are caught in self-contradictions.
Hang in there. The semester is almost over, and following the endurance test called finals week, the majority of you will move out of the pressure cooker and into a well-deserved break. This should help heal and fortify you for the next stage of your academic growth, or for those graduating to the nonacademic world, the next stage of your life.
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