It is beginning to seem that Israel does not want to make peace with the volatile Hamas leadership, based on the assault on a prison in Jericho by Israeli forces last week and other recent events. It is interesting that few Americans know Israel once actively promoted the formation of Hamas to counter the secular Fatah party.
I have known several people who benefited greatly by the mental health program that UNM hospital now finds inefficient. I find it unconscionable that the program is being shut down.
This letter is in response to comments made by some letters in the Daily Lobo concerning the absoluteness of freedom of speech.
I attended my first City Council meeting on March 6. I was eager to see government in action and all those other naive ideas. While I'm sure that the City Council is responsible for many good things, I was appalled to witness firsthand evidence of the chief complaint of most people regarding government - namely, that it is completely out of touch with the people that it is supposed to represent.
Come with me to the dark side of the garden. Vegetables have a dark side. Most people don't eat enough vegetables, and perhaps there are some good reasons why. These nutritious foods can have unpleasant side effects - tears, stinky urine and flatulence, just to name a few.
In his American revolutionary history, Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis styles the domestic political landscape in 1804 "a dangerously fluid place," where national laws and institutions remained in flux. "Eventually," writes Ellis, "the United States might develop into a nation of laws and established institutions capable of surviving corrupt or incompetent public officials, but it was not there yet. It still required honorable and virtuous leaders to survive."
Larry Walsh's argument in his letter to the Daily Lobo regarding freedom of speech needs to be better presented.
On behalf of my friend, Ricola Willie - whose work Joseph Basso condemned in his extremely ignorant and judgmental letter to the Daily Lobo - I have to respond.
Editor, It is moments like this that almost make me regret being a Republican. The week before last, the House Appropriations Committee voted 62-2 in favor of blocking Dubai Ports World from managing the terminals at six American ports. This vote was made despite the fact that a promised 45-day review ...
Editor, Over the next few months, the process of selecting the next president of the University of New Mexico will begin. I hope it is safe to say the University community desires the process to be conducted with the utmost of integrity, and that its outcome will result in the identification of the ...
Editor, I don't have to remind the greater part of New Mexico about the ongoing battle over the reintroduction of wolves to the state. I don't have to remind New Mexico that by the early 1940s, we had successfully exterminated almost every species of rodent, predator and other nuisance species to make ...
Editor, I recently noticed an art display on the upper level of the Student Union Building - its theme seems to be the nudity of the male. In our country we have freedom to express ourselves. However, something as explicit as this art display would warrant restrictions on the Internet, yet here at ...
Editor, The culture at UNM faces many challenges: the number of students who commute, who work full time, who are alienated by school bureaucracy, electronic registration and the sheer number of students in attendance, all of which inhibit the forming of a common student culture at the University of ...
The Iraq war has had an inarguably divisive effect on the American people, but the one area on which most on either side of the debate seem to be united is in supporting the troops. Whether with magnetic yellow-ribbon bumper stickers, care packages, or protests to bring them home, most Americans have indignantly claimed that they - and often they alone - support the 135,000 or so soldiers in Iraq at any given time.
Editor, Christian Beenfeldt, in his letter to the editor in Thursday's edition of the Daily Lobo, is wrong. Freedom of speech is not absolute. You cannot scream "fire" in a crowded theater. You cannot block traffic for a protest. You cannot threaten someone. Publishing these cartoons could cause ...
A battle for Western freedom is being fought overseas. The specific object of the battle is merely a handful of cartoons. The outcome of the struggle, however, will reverberate for years.
On March 24, 2006, the Intensive Outpatient program at the UNM Mental Health Center will close its doors. Steve McKernan, CEO of UNM Hospitals Clinical Operations, is responsible for this decision. This will affect present patients of the program, the staff and the 250 patients that this program has the potential to help every year.
On March 18, 2006, the community of Albuquerque will be coming together to mark the third year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
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