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‘Illegal’ is not a word in the Catholic vocabulary

Editor, In last Wednesday’s Daily Lobo the above-the-fold article, “Term ‘illegal’ raises furor,” was about future seminarian for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and current ASUNM Senator Colt Balok using the non-Catholic term of ‘illegal’ regarding the driver’s license debate.



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Illegal and undocumented mean the same thing

Editor, I am writing in response to the article “Term ‘illegal’ raises furor” published in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo. I am just wondering, in what world does illegal and undocumented not mean the same thing?


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#RelationshipStatus: You are cordially invited to be alone

“Do you know how hard it is to find a Valentine’s Day card that doesn’t have the words ‘husband’ ‘wife’ or ‘boyfriend’ on it?” I asked Collette last week at Target. “It’s impossible. Apparently you and I are the only people that send our moms cards,” Collette said.


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Warning: headlines may be deceptive

Over the last few months on Twitter I’ve been noticing a lot of comments concerning the sudden “revelation” that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t magically grant everyone in the nation free health insurance.



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Dr. Pegs Prescription

Recently I had lunch with an elderly friend. I’ll call her Elaine. As we chatted over our salads, Elaine told me about a trip she took over the holidays to visit her sister and brother-in-law in Minnesota. Unfortunately, they got into a huge fight, the visit was a disaster and she left angry.



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Cash your chips or fold, don’t gamble a life away

Editor, Gambling destroys lives and families. Gambling is a filthy addiction to greed. A Chicago mother was charged with suffocating her 3-week-old daughter to collect a $200,000 insurance payment to pay for her gambling addiction. Six elderly people were robbed and murdered in Louisiana because the killer was addicted to video poker.


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The Peer Review

Many of us learn the hard way that the best cure for a broken heart is to simply bid the outside world adieu and never leave the house again. Who needs real relationships when you can curl up with eight seasons of “How I Met Your Mother” on Netflix?


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Wolf bronze statues are dangerous, use people

Editor, Recently I have begun to notice the alarming proliferation of a number of life-sized, bronze statues of wolves, all around campus — near the Duck Pond, Zimmerman Library, and elsewhere — and I am alarmed at how I fear this might affect the safety of our school.




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Obama’s promise to flout the law unnerving

Editor, President Obama offered a deeply chilling vision for the rest of his time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week with his State of the Union. This vision does not stem from his unrealistic, though not necessarily unreasonable, requests of the 113th and 114th Congresses in terms of policy.


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Dr. Pegs Prescription

Everywhere you go on campus these days, people are sniffling and sneezing. Coughs echo in the halls and tissues fill the trash cans. It is the season for respiratory illness. Have you already succumbed? If not, would you like to avoid getting sick?


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Philosophy should never trump empirical facts

Editor, After reading Mac Morin’s letter (“New Atheists neglect modern cases for God”), I noticed a word he liked to use a lot: Philosopher. In a simplified manner, a philosopher observes the natural world and makes deductions based on what they see.


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New Atheists neglect modern cases for God

Editor, It is perhaps something of a surprise that almost none of the so-called New Atheists have anything to say about arguments for God’s existence. Instead, they tend to focus on the social effects of religion and question whether religious belief is good for society.


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The Olympics are held for peace

I confess: I love the Olympics. I’ve enjoyed the global spectacle for as long as I can remember, even though the first Games I recall were the tragedy-marred 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. One morning I turned on the TV and instead of the games, there were German policemen running around on rooftops!


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What is the point of student opinions

Editor, This letter is in response to your article, “El Centro Leader Faces Contention,” in the Daily Lobo’s Jan. 13 issue. Being an active participant at the candidate forums, it is important that one misconception be put to rest.


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‘Dadlessness’ not the problem in society

Editor, State Senator William Sharer is not being forthright when he told the Daily Lobo in last Monday’s, “Gay Marriage Ban Proposed,” that he is simply trying to ban same sex marriage because, “the root of all problems in society is what I call dadlessness.”

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