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Opinion

Letter: The U.S. creates terrorists by bombing, disrespecting mother countries

Daily Lobo Readers | September 22

Instead of just getting all high and mighty and righteously indignant with all these Muslims among us killing everyday citizenry, we must acknowledge that a big reason they are doing so is that by and large we are bombing their mother countries year after year without interruption. Hence we get the likes of terrorist Ahmad Rahami, who is a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan.

Opinion

Letter: Expensive campus parking offers no security for students' vehicles

Daily Lobo Readers | September 22

My sister is a UNM student who lives on campus in the newest dorms. Her car was stolen last night from one of the dorm lots (on Sept. 19), which is also one of the more expensive lots. This is a problem on campus and happens 1 to 3 times a week,the officer said.

Opinion

Letter: ABQ has the ability to lead the nation in switching to solar energy

September 22

Just a few short days ago the City Council set the city of Albuquerque up for the future by making a realistic goal of switching over to solar energy. Right now Albuquerque is getting a measly three percent of all of our energy coming from solar energy and the change put forth will put us at 25 percent by the year 2025.

Culture

Column: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon Go

Fin Martinez | September 21

Earlier this year the mobile game “Pokemon Go” was released, after monumental amounts of hype that had Pokemon fans new and old waiting anxiously for its release. Upon its release, the game generated between $3.9 million and $4.9 million in its first day, according to a Digital Market Ramblings, an online aggregator that tracks video game statistics.

Opinion

Letter: Men should be less afraid of their feelings for same-sex partners

Daily Lobo Readers | September 21

Millions of men, including many who love their wives and girlfriends, are terrified of having family and friends find out that they want sex with men. Some try to smother their desire with religion. Some yell “faggot” at gays. Some curse and bully gays. Some kill themselves with booze or a bullet. Some, like Omar Mateen in Florida, murder LGBT persons.

Opinion

Letter: The public shouldn't believe the government's promises

Daily Lobo Readers | September 19

Common sense isn’t common, nor speaks to everyone equally. In these days of mass manipulation of the masses, there is a growing realization of how ubiquitous and nefarious the media intelligence military industrial corporate (MIMIC) complex is able to manipulate current events.

Opinion

Letter: NM reporters must do a better job holding politicians accountable

Daily Lobo Readers | September 19

Republican Gov. Susana Martinez will be visiting the University of New Mexico on Monday, Sept. 19, to hold a "press conference" touting her successful higher educational reforms? This P/R photo op comes just one week after UNM announced a staff/faculty hiring freeze, due to this failed state’s budget disaster!

Opinion

Letter: People should be more critical of some Biblical stories

Daily Lobo Readers | September 19

Samson in the Bible was a suicide bomber! Samson prayed to God to help him to murder his enemies as he killed himself. The Bible says the building Samson destroyed was full of men and women and 3,000 more people were on the roof. (Judges 16: 25-30.) Samson killed possibly more people that day than were killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Opinion

Letter: Hillary Clinton is the face of political corruption

Daily Lobo Readers | September 15

No sane, rational American should vote for Hillary Clinton. The simple truth is she is a symptom of the cancer that infects the national body politic. She is a paragon of all that is wrong with politicians and politics.

Opinion

Letter: The majority race is never held accountable for crimes against minorities

Daily Lobo Readers | September 15

When a member of this nation’s majority race commits a hate crime against a minority, it is often from being emboldened by truly believing that they represent the majority view in committing even the most heinous acts. And given that there is such a thing as systemic prejudice, they can be right.

Opinion

Op-Ed: Why you really hate Colin Kaepernick

Adam Sorrell | September 15

Now that some of the heat surrounding Colin Kaepernick has died down we can take a breath, step back and examine some of the greater and less obvious dynamics involved in the situation that seemed to send the nation into a frenzy a few weeks ago.

Opinion

Letter: Saudi Arabia can be part of the solution against terrorism source

Daily Lobo Readers | September 15

In general Americans don't know much about other parts of the world. We are after all raised on a steady diet of American exceptionalism which indoctrinates us from an early age to view ourselves as the best people in the world. If we then view ourselves as the best people in the world then it naturally follows that learning about the rest of the world might seem like a waste of time.

Opinion

Letter: Americans should use their freedom of speech to denounce their nation's injustices

Don Schrader | September 12

I could face torture, prison or execution in many nations if I spoke out publicly there as I do here. The United States strongly supports many bloody regimes now -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan, Mexico. The U.S. strongly supported many bloody past regimes -- El Salvador, the Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Chile, Iran, South Africa, Argentina, Indonesia...

Opinion

Letter: Surgeon general's statement on drug abuse will help sufferers of drug addiction

Daily Lobo Readers | September 12

The large numbers of drug addicts in our nation can breathe a sigh of relief on learning that our Surgeon General himself has now sent a letter to all fellow doctors in America, asserting that “we can shape how the rest of the country sees addiction by talking about and treating it as a chronic illness, not a moral failing.”

Opinion

Letter: Rational and educated Americans should vote for Hillary Clinton

Daily Lobo Readers | September 8

I recently picked up an old used bargain book titled ‘The Tyrants - 2,500 Years of Absolute Power And Corruption’. “Only true tyrants can display the iron will, bombastic ego and ruthless abuse of power necessary necessary to achieve whatever they wish, no matter how outrageous...” It is a terrifying and horrifying book about man’s inhumanity to man. #NeverAgain

Opinion

Letter: Greed for land outweighs respect toward Native Americans

Daily Lobo Readers | September 8

Whenever any debate about immigration comes up I can't help but think of the Native American people. Why is it that I don't hear Natives droning on and on about people needing to "go back where they came from?" After all, were they not the original people to inhabit this land that we now call the United States of America.

Opinion

Column: Millennials impact the LGBTQ movement in many ways

Nichole Harwood | September 8

The fight for equal rights is not a new one. Throughout history humanity, and certainly Americans, have had a constant struggle to be viewed and treated equally.

Opinion

Editorial: Safe space discussion needn't be black-and-white

Daily Lobo Editorial Board | September 6

Over the summer, University of New Mexico administration updated its employee training. In doing so, the University entered the fray of a debate that has been dominating the higher education landscape recently, one centered on balancing meaningful discussion on uncomfortable issues while taking into consideration what might be considered a "trigger warning" for some people.

Opinion

Letter: Kaepernick should be commended for raising awareness on minority mistreatment by police

Daily Lobo Readers | September 6

In a recent conversation with a friend about NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem, my friend questioned Kaepernick's sincerity. My friend said, "This guy has played in the NFL for years and all of a sudden he gives a damn about race relations?" The simple fact of the matter is that people can change and only God really knows whats in a man or woman's heart.

Opinion

Letter: Too much evil in the world for a loving God to exist

Daily Lobo Readers | September 6

Would a loving human parent slam and lock the door forever against a son or daughter regardless what evil they have done? Would a loving parent God sentence billions of people, or even one person, to never-ending torture with no pardon, no parole? To all who believe in God, do you believe in hell? I would never want to spend eternity with such a cruel monster God!