by Don McIver Daily Lobo Guest Columnist Over the weekend, our car died. And after several fruitless attempts at getting it started, we resorted to calling a tow truck. The tow truck driver, after pulling the car up on to the truck, said that he'd follow us back to the house where the car would sit until I figured out what to do with it.
by Scott Darnell Daily Lobo Columnist Last week, I had the privilege of interning for Rep. Tom Taylor at the Capitol in Santa Fe. The experience was wonderful and while there were many bright spots, the most riveting policy debate took place in the N.
Editor, On Wednesday, March 5, I was personally disgusted by the way my fellow Americans acted. This is my response: For weeks now, I have noticed the "No War on Iraq" campaign put on by the people who don't understand what this conflict is truly about.
Editor, To the students of UNM: You have joined with thousands of students around the nation in being willing to raise your questions of concern. As a nation, we face an administration that is preparing to launch a war that poses most serious and devastating consequences for the world.
Editor, Our country was founded on the premise that all men and women should have the right to pursue happiness however they see fit, as long as they are not violating the rights of others. Yet, today, the U.S. federal government violates this principle with the prohibition of the cannabis plant.
Editor, A disastrous House Bill 581 is looming in Santa Fe. If passed, it will lower and/or set academic entrance and eligibility requirements for student-athletes at UNM and other New Mexico state universities to that of the lowest -- for academic entrance requirements and eligibility -- conference school or lowest school in the NCAA (if the state university isn't in a conference), i.
Editor, I oppose all war. I oppose all weapons of war. I voted for no one for U.S. Senate and House in last November's election. None of the New Mexican candidates for Congress opposed all war and all weapons of war. There is not a dime's worth of difference between most Republican and most Democratic members of Congress on robbing and murdering our neighbors abroad.
Editor, This is an open letter to the irresponsible idiots who marched through the chemistry building protesting a possible war against Saddam Hussein Wednesday afternoon. You are certainly at liberty to have your protests on campus outside of the buildings, but when you bring your disruptive noise into a building with laboratory classes in progress, your "expression of freedom of speech" comes closer to attempted assault.
Editor, Our government closes down, puts on notice, and fines restaurants for guacamole and Alfredo sauce that isn't the correct temperature. Our government gets involved when a restaurant uses wiping cloths improperly. Our government demands that restaurants that are open to the public (and are therefore public places,) not store food near cleaning products, clean their ice machines and supply paper towels to their customers.
by Richard "Bugman" Fagerlund Daily Lobo Columnist Of all the bug calls I get, the ones that are the most frustrating are from people who suffer from delusory parasitosis. Delusory parasitosis is a condition where someone feels insects, mites or worms crawling on them.
Editor, It is clear that, despite his stance "against" ideology, Steve Chavez is operating under a particular ideology himself. In his attempt to discredit current and past political groups working in the peace movement, Chavez claims that these groups are inherently corrupt because of their promotion of certain ideological positions.
Staff Editorial Daily Targum (Rutgers U.) (U-WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- In the coming weeks the U.S. Senate will have to make a decision on the issue of cloning. Currently the House has passed a bill banning human cloning and research cloning.
Editor, The latest attempt in the ongoing attempt to litigate, legislate and re-interpret the Green Party off the ballot has passed two house committees and will soon be on its way to the state Senate. House Bill 628 increases the registration threshold for major party status, not by doubling or tripling it, but by a whopping 30-fold or 3,000 percent increase! If this draconian requirement were in place elsewhere the Democrats would not have full-ballot access in Utah nor would Republicans in the District of Columbia.
Editor, Steve Chavez's guest column outlining the insidious influence that communist and radical socialist groups have on the local "peace movement" only scratches the surface of this shadowy world. If you navigate the Stop the War Machine's Web site, the first link in the "Other Resources" section of the site is to the International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) organization.
by Lenzy Krehbiel Daily O’Collegian (Oklahoma State U.) (U-WIRE) STILLWATER, Okla. — Over the past few decades, hypocrisy has become a standard in this country. Our national anthem calls America the “land of the free,” yet racial profiling is now acceptable to many in certain circumstances in light of recent events.
Solutions by The State News
