Airline security reached a new level of paranoia Jan. 11, when 86-year-old retired Marine Corps General and former South Dakota Gov. Joseph J. Foss was harassed by two security teams over the Medal of Honor he was trying to carry onto the plane.
As America fights terrorism abroad, a different threat against our way of life is emerging domestically. But while the terrorists openly proclaim their hatred for America, this foe is more insidious: it masquerades as a defender of American values while campaigning to destroy them. America's newest enemy is the "national service" movement - a movement President Bush plans to endorse in his State of the Union Address.
Two important bills have been introduced in the New Mexico Legislature this year.
As we return from the only observed holiday of the spring semester, I wonder how many people actually observed it as more than just a welcomed vacation.
While talking to my friend Ann a few weeks ago, I told her about the whole Copper Lounge boycott thing. Ann still lives in Albany, and apparently a similar incident of queer bashing occurred there, at a bar I used to hang out at across from my former office. Not long after that conversation, I heard of two other recent instances of queer bashing in Albuquerque.
I greet all eyes with these fresh new words for a new year. Every New Year there is this rekindling of fascination in how different human cultures monitor and relate to the passing of time.
Fraschilla's comment was a non sequitur. No one knows what he meant and he refuses to elaborate. So why must he apologize and why is his job at stake? Of course it is. If censorship continues to go as it has been, I'll expect the American government to begin constructing gas chambers and electrified fences within the next year.
One of the interesting things about American culture is how, in an attempt to label some situation, group or lifestyle as negative, sometimes American media end up promoting these circumstances and in the long run, gaining participants.
While you're thinking about possible holiday gifts, instead of looking in a catalog, you might want to take a look at a recent report from the National Cancer Institute.
As a young woman, I'm constantly aware of the risk of breast cancer. It's hard not to be. The pink ribbons, the hundreds of fundraising events each year and the startling statistics all serve as a reminder that breast cancer - despite recent gains - remains a major threat to women everywhere.
Hello students, welcome back. Education is power, and therefore, you are powerful. But there are more effective ways of achieving power than going to school, like say, going to war.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks drove home the responsibilities of every citizen - and brought new threats to open government.
It seems that the Daily Lobo is behind the times in its reporting of Mario Sanchez's bid for mayor of Belen. It was reported in a Belen paper last week that Mr. Sanchez was removed from the race for not having a Belen residence at the time of his application for candidacy.
I find it interesting that for once I am in complete agreement with Sen. Joe Lieberman. Having just returned from Central Asia, Lieberman made a speech at Georgetown University saying that we must assist Muslim nations in modernizing and building up to join the rest of the world community at large.
I am writing to you to ask the UNM community to please stop the Berthold Bashing. My head and heart aches for what happened on Sept. 11 of this year and for what Berthold said. I feel that he should have been reprimanded but not fired. He has paid for what he has said with a letter in his file and a restriction on what classes he can teach.
I was pleased to see the Daily Lobo's addition of Michael Carrasco to the ensemble of Daily Lobo columnists. For the first time, the Daily Lobo has a coherent conservative whose ideas do not come off as uninformed, which I say with all sincerity.
Google, my favorite search engine, calls it the "Zeitgeist," a German word for the spirit of an age, the trend of thought in a particular time.
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