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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.

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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...

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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.”

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Letter: WWIII will be the price to save jihadists in Syria

Daily Lobo Readers | September 1

While I am upset that Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo is sidelined because of a back injury, I find myself more upset by the fact that the Turkish government has sent its military into Syria.

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Letter: There are resources out there to help young NM professionals succeed

Daily Lobo Readers | September 1

Hi my name is Kyle Laktasic, I was one of the two co-founders of BLACKPIN Inc. which was recently acquired by Innovo Technologies in Irvine, California. About a year and a half ago another UNM Student Jordan Medlock and I decided to start a company based on the idea we could use advance programing techniques to make the "things" around us much more capable then in their current state of not being interconnected.

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Op-Ed: Farm Follies: The Cheese Stands Alone (With Its Hand Out)

Thomas Knapp | August 29

On August 23, the US Department of Agriculture announced its plan to purchase 11 million pounds of cheese, at a cost of $20 million. The cheese will be "provided to families in need through USDA nutrition assistance programs," but the real purpose of the purchase is to reduce excess cheese inventories, "assisting the stalled marketplace for dairy producers whose revenues have dropped 35 percent over the past two years.

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Letter: Do college graduates really lead a more healthy and moral life?

Daily Lobo Readers | August 25

Do most college graduates live more wisely than minimum wage worker who never went to high school? Do most college graduates travel less, pollute less, cause less global climate chaos? Do most college graduates pay less federal income tax for war? Do most college graduates consume less and live more simply and fairly in our world family of more than seven billion people?

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Editorial: Help us serve the UNM community

Daily Lobo Editorial Board | August 22

A newspaper – or any local media form – is only as strong and diverse as the community it serves. Luckily for us at the Daily Lobo, the community at the University of New Mexico fits the bill. And over the next nine months, we pledge to do the best we can to appeal to that strength, working to bring you the highest caliber of news and content that we possibly can on a regular basis.

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Letter: Urban gang violence in America worse than any jihadist terrorism

Daily Lobo Readers | August 15

The gun violence perpetrated in the US by radical Islamists is but a fraction of our overall gun violence. Just in the arena of murders that are drug-related, the toll is far greater. You think the gang bangers in our inner cities are not terrorists in every sense of the term, terrorizing the neighborhoods they live in? The murders they have committed all these decades have been far worse than any mass shooter of the jihadi kind.

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Letter: UNM is trying its best to improve its handling of campus sexual assault

Daily Lobo Readers | July 27

Sexual assault is arguably the most disturbing issue on our college campuses nationwide. At UNM, it has become a primary focus over the past few years, beginning with some high profile cases involving our students, and culminating in a Department of Justice review of our policies and procedures.

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Letter: American society doesn't care if Asians are killed or dehumanized

Daily Lobo Readers | July 25

Editor, Do Asian lives matter too? Doesn’t look like it, if you see all these Asian store workers in inner cities across America being murdered in cold blood while their stores are robbed – that’s what they get in exchange for providing basic necessities and accepting food stamps and welfare cash.

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Letter: Frank's response to DOJ investigation is shameful and inadequate

Daily Lobo Readers | July 18

I write this letter to express my concern and frustration with President Frank’s response to the Department of Justice’s Report of its investigation of the University of New Mexico’s failures regarding the investigation and response to reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment by its students, specifically President Frank’s comments that the DOJ’s report has a “lack of facts” and was just “anecdotal”.

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Letter: Keeping the poor out of college serves to benefit the rich

Daily Lobo Readers | July 18

Looking at the Bernie-stoked Clinton plan to initially offer free in-state college tuition initially to those whose family makes a total of only $80,000, this would mean the poor, and many American business owners do not even want this because, plain and simple, they do not want more college graduates flooding the market with their higher wage demands, especially liberal arts degree holders “with their noses in the air.”

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Column: Black community has and will continue to persevere

Jacklyn Asamoah | July 13

It’s time like this when the structure of racism rears its ugly head from the hidden shadows of the so called “post-racial” society. It’s time like this where people are waking up and realizing that they are fighting an everyday struggle and war on race. These events that are blasted all over the news and social media numb one’s response and ability to process the difficult situations. When we are constantly waking up to hear of another killing of someone who looks likes us— we begin to constantly question, “Are my family, friends, co-workers, peers, neighbors next” or even “Am I next?”