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Column: Media harp on Obama buzzwords

Watching financial news and reading opinion pages has been rough the last year. America's financial system is teetering on the brink, our auto manufacturing industry is in shambles, and nearly every other segment of America's red-hot economy of a couple years ago has nearly ground to a cold-gray standstill.

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Stem-cell research violates fundamental moral principles

Editor, Some scientists think they might have found the fountain of youth - too bad for the young. As an undergraduate student at UNM, I worked with a very intelligent professor in the medical field. We studied the pluripotency of the stem cells in the quail embryo.

Only through social struggles can civil rights be obtained

Editor, America's civil rights history is an interesting story that most people don't fully understand. The way many groups have achieved social and political rights in this country comes from a combination of judicial activism, a long history of legislation (constitutional and unconstitutional), grassroots activism, social upheaval and a mixture of good and bad court decisions.

Ask Dr. Peg

You deserve a break. You have worked hard all semester. Now it's time to relax. I hope you have scheduled some serious downtime for spring break. Sleep late, play a lot, eat chocolate, rejoice. I also hope you plan to stay healthy and safe over break, whether you travel, stay home or do some of both.

It's not right to crack down on groups that feed the hungry

Editor, In Wednesday's article, "Group could be fined for serving without permit," Jon Moore reported that the group Food Not Bombs could be fined by the Health Department. Recently, according to the Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque has a "potluck ordinance" and has been cracking down on local churches and festivals for the terrible crime - get this - of feeding people.

It's ignorant to blame Obama for country's economic woes

Editor, Conservatives have got some nerve to blame the recent drops in Wall Street to President Obama's proposed tax hikes on the wealthy. These tax increases are very modest, raising the highest income tax rate from 35 to 39 percent, raising the taxes on dividends and capital gains from to 15 to 20 percent, and lowering the top deduction rates from 35 to 28 percent.

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UNM must stop giving money to athletics when well is dry

Editor, In the March 4 Albuquerque Journal, "UNM Saved for a Rainy Day; It Rained," President of the UNM Board of Regents Jamie Koch said that three years ago, the University's "centralized reserves had grown dangerously low" and "revenue reversions," i.e.

Krebs' motives questionable in request for Long's resignation

Editor, The recent revelation printed in Saturday's Albuquerque Journal that UNM Vice President of Athletics Paul Krebs asked Rocky Long to resign raises serious questions that deserve answers. It is beyond comprehension how Krebs could commit the University to a new contract just three months prior to asking for Long's resignation.

Ask Dr. Peg

Dear Dr. Peg, My roommate thought she got a spider bite when she went home last weekend. It got big and sore, so she went to Student Health and they told her it was an MRSA infection. She said they cut it open and gave her antibiotics. Is this contagious? Do I need to be on antibiotics too? Dear MRSA-mate, I remember your roommate, or someone like her.

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Blaming President Obama for ill economy is laughable

Editor, I'd like to thank Dixon Duval for his comic piece in Monday's Daily Lobo. I couldn't help but laugh at his characterization of President Barack Obama as some sort of economic villain bent on destroying prosperity and turning America into a socialist dystopia.

Financial collapse result of policies that rewarded greed

Editor, Dixon Duval's guest column in Monday's Daily Lobo contains a couple of misleading statements. First is his intimation that we can now shift the blame for our wallowing economy from President Bush to President Obama. While he slips in a statement that the "disappearance of wealth cannot be blamed only on the previous administration," suggesting shared blame, the remainder of his statements lay the fault solely on Obama.

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While the economy crumbles, executives continue to spend

Editor, Where to begin? Let's just say that the sum total of your ignorance, Dixon Duval, is almost impressive. "This is happening on Obama's watch." Exactly how long does Duval think that the failed policies of what he is supporting take to play out and then correct? "To deprive or prevent executives of their.

Hard work, not benefactors of cronyism, should be rewarded

Editor, I find Dixon Duval's column Monday to be majorly flawed. Yes, poor executives, how dare we say they can make only so much money. They won't want to work hard anymore. As if they really work hard. They bankrupt the company or bank and catch a golden parachute plus multi-million-dollar bonuses just for screwing up.

Column: Obama: the great wealth destroyer

I heard a description of President Barack Obama on National Public Radio the other day: the great wealth destroyer. I thought how appropriate and true it was, at least for individuals like me who have pumped money into mutual fund retirement instruments for years and now have no retirement.

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