Editor, On Tuesday, a group of elementary school children was on campus. I remember coming to campus for a field trip when I was in elementary school. I think these trips are a great opportunity for kids to get a glimpse of college life. However, I was troubled by the fact that these kids, their teachers and chaperones were using the UNM shuttles.
Editor, The fundamentalist and fundamentally un-American leadership in the White House and Washington is attacking everything good that the United States once stood for. It is doing so without regard for the loud and gathering voices of opposition among the population it somehow represents through ignoring.
Editor, The actions of Robert Anderson illustrate just how far some liberals will go to publicize themselves and disrupt lawful gatherings of anyone holding opposing viewpoints. The symposium at which Anderson decided to make a fool out of himself was not a forum for debate.
Editor, The hypocrisy and incompetence displayed by Robert Anderson at a weapons symposium Friday was astounding. His actions were simply a publicity stunt, and their consequences are now being twisted by people like Elaine Cimino in her letter in Monday's Daily Lobo to deceive people.
Editor, New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid was sure to be a big hit with students when she said that the war defending our country is taking money away from colleges. Yes, the war does take government funding, but so do welfare, health care and interstate repairs.
Editor, Were you at the SUB last Friday? If so, you must have seen the man in handcuffs, who UNM Police had thrown to the floor. And you must have seen the people in suits walk right past the police and out the front door with our money. Last Friday, on the second floor of the SUB, the people in suits, representatives of Sandia National Laboratories and other weapons developers, gave a presentation in which they tried to sell our University the idea of creating a new generation of nuclear weapons.
Editor, It is shameful enough that detainees in Iraq have had no rights and have been tortured without proof of complicity in terrorism. It is shameful enough that laws today allow people in this country, even legal immigrants and U.S. citizens, to be held without notification, habeas corpus or trial.
Editor, On Thursday, Worldcantwait.org is holding nationwide protests in 155 locations across the U.S. to drive out President George Bush for all his impeachable offenses. These include treason for lying us into a war with Iraq; treason for providing cover to those guilty of exposing an agent and her whole operation company, which was geared to providing intelligence on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Gulf region; violation of habeas corpus and constitutional protections against wiretapping; violations of constitutional limitations on the executive branch by trying to extend or violate legitimate law using signing statements; criminal neglect in allowing the deaths of thousands to occur in the wake of Katrina over a five-day period; and treason or criminal neglect in allowing Osama bin Laden - the mastermind of the Sept.
Editor, For 230 years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died defending the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These rights are about to be taken away, not by the terrorists, but by our own government. Americans are too stupid, lazy and cowardly to stop it.
Editor, There are now automated cameras to catch drivers running red lights and speeding throughout Albuquerque. Some have complained that this is unfair, because we all expect to break the law without penalty unless an officer is present. Let's get real.
Editor, I am writing this in response to Damian Erasmus' letter about abortion in Thursday's Daily Lobo. First, I would like to establish the personhood of a fetus or embryo. Despite some people's opinions, there is no debate among the medical community that life begins at conception.
Editor, Caleb Fort's reporting is usually extremely solid. But I was stunned with disbelief to read this sentence in Fort's Daily Lobo article on Friday: "Madrid said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan impact U.S. students. The money spent on the wars could be spent on improving financial aid," she said.
Editor, UNM squashed free speech on Friday by silencing dissenters on nuclear weapons production in New Mexico. Maybe University police were following the orders of Sandia National Laboratories officials present at the symposium when they arrested CNM professor and activist Robert Anderson.
Editor, Cold wars are typically fought for an audience. They try to show that one country has more power and potency than another. In short, they try to make a point. This is the absurdity of the war in Iraq that President George Bush started. It is entirely a hot war, and the only audience is there on the ground at the other end of the guns and weapons.
Editor, On Aug. 24, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration decided to allow the emergency contraceptive drug levonorgestrel, commonly called Plan B, to be sold over-the-counter to people at least 18 years old. Advocates of this decision say that easier access to Plan B will decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Editor, Wednesday's column, "Sweetener subsidies," by Whitney J. Davis unfortunately mischaracterizes both corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup by suggesting a unique causal link between these natural ingredients and obesity, as well as other health problems.
Editor, Jay Tillman and I would like to respond to the letter written by Daily Lobo reader Brandon Curtis. His analogy of comments made by Tillman and myself about the return of Sigma Chi to the UNM community was taken out of context - this is not the issue, anyway.
Editor, Abortion-rights advocates should not cede the terms "pro-life" and "right to life" to the anti-abortion advocates. It is a woman's right to her own life that gives her the right to terminate a pregnancy. First, it is absurd to compare a mass of cells to the equivalent of an infant.
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