Editor, I'd like to thank Rep. Heather Wilson for the three-month-old form letter I received on the situation in Iraq. The letter made absolutely no mention of sectarian violence or civil war in Iraq. The letter stated military operations must go forward against insurgent and foreign fighters in Iraq, particularly against al-Qaida.
Editor, In 2003, President Bush made the decision to invade Iraq and overthrow a despotic ruler. The goal was to give the citizens of Iraq the opportunity to rule themselves in the manner they preferred, which he assumed would be a democracy, modeled on the example of the U.
Editor, It has been said that President Bush is not intellectually curious. This is true, but even more important to consider is that he also lacks what can be called street smarts. The end result is the mess we see today in Iraq. It has been noted that Bush was not aware of the Sunni and Shiite dichotomy until six weeks before the invasion, and even then, he is reputed to have dismissed the importance of the matter.
Editor, According to a recent CNN report, 60 percent of American adults are seriously overweight. Also, 17 percent of American children are overweight. This is quite evident here in New Mexico. Obesity seems to originate from a lack of physical activity, not from gluttony.
Not too long ago, this nation marked with mixed emotion - and the usual smear of indifference - the crossing of the 300 million inhabitants mark. Who was this lucky newborn baby? You might call him or her America's 300 millionth patriot. What is the challenge he or she embodies? Overpopulation.
Editor, A student loan company called Nelnet was the largest corporate contributor to the Republican Congressional Committee in the 2006 midterm elections, giving $153,000, according to a Los Angeles Times report. Sallie Mae, another student loan company, was one of the largest contributors to Rep.
by Peggy Spencer Daily Lobo columnist Dear Dr. Peg, Is there an unusually high number of people at UNM with cold sores or oral herpes? It seems that they are everywhere, and I am afraid that I will come down with lip sores like that. I have never had one.
Editor, This is to address the issue of embryonic stem cell research, which Gov. Richardson wants to fund with state money. I think there are moral ramifications involved here. First of all, Richardson believes this research does not pose a pro-life issue.
Boy, Mos Def is going to have a heyday with this one. As 23-year-old Sean Bell was buried on Saturday in Queens, N.Y., another African-American family mourned the loss of a son, father and what was a soon-to-be husband gunned down by the New York Police Department in the most completely absurd amount of bullets - 50 - on Nov. 25.
Editor, I'd like to refute and correct some remarks made by columnist Steve Painter in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. The bulk of his column arguing for U.S. support of Israel relies on unreliable, incomplete and biased sources. Painter began his column by emphasizing the melancholy saga of the Jewish people and the harassments they have endured throughout the years, especially during World War II.
Editor, When I read the article by Damian Garde in the Tuesday Daily Lobo about the similarities between right-wingers and hip-hop, I was stunned. Hip-hop isn't that bad. True, hip-hop artists talk about toting guns and doing drugs, but there are some good aspects to rap.
Editor, I hesitate to write anything in regard to stem cell research, because I hold the issue so close to heart. The most common attack on stem cell research is based on morality - because I believe in and promote stem cell research, do I cease to be a moral being? What if I said that my family and I carry Huntington's disease? Huntington's disease cannot be contracted or caught - it must be passed on through genes as a defect in the fourth chromosome.
Editor, I support Child's Play, the charity through which one can donate video games, among other things, to sick children. Sick children deserve to have a little joy in their lives, and if giving them a game or toy does that, it is a good thing. People like to say that video games and gaming consoles are wrong and evil, but they need to look at the deeper picture and see the fact that they are helping sick children have fun, and that they need that.
Editor, Tuesday's Daily Lobo featured a letter and a column that suffered from the same simplistic delusion - that the U.S. has some sort of God-given right to tell the entire world how to live and govern itself. In a letter, Damian Erasmus said, "We need a radically different foreign policy - a policy that upholds American self-interest on moral principle.
Editor, I would like to pose a question to your readers because I consider your paper to reach the largest amount of educated people in the area. The Democrats won the 2006 midterm elections. What now? Will they unleash a sweeping socialist plan to revitalize the safety net and further sink the nation deeper into debt? I did vote blue, but not because I liked the Democratic agenda.
After several high-level strategic assessments of the situation in Iraq, the Bush administration stands poised to escalate U.S. military involvement in defiance of the growing domestic and international consensus - including a large majority of Iraqis - favoring withdrawal.
Editor, Are embryonic stem cells the answer to curing diseases? Maybe at some time in the far distant future, when researchers have managed to prevent embryonic stem cells from multiplying out of control and creating malignant tumors, then embryonic stem cells will be the cure for diseases.
Immortality and unlimited potential. That's a stem cell in a nutshell. They are unspecialized ancestor cells, capable of living practically forever or morphing into any cell type from any tissue - talk about power in a small package.
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