Editor, On June 25, 1976, my grandparents in Illinois were murdered in their sleep. They were retired farmers in their 80s. Six years later, a young Anglo man named Dale was arrested and confessed. Months after that, I wrote him, offering my forgiveness. He wrote me back — profoundly repentant for his terrible crime.
Editor, This coming Nov. 29 marks the 66th anniversary of the UN resolution to partition west Palestine into two states, Arab and Jewish. A few historical facts are worth recalling:
Editor, November 19 was the day I seemed to have been waiting for forever. I had been eagerly QDwaiting to vote against the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance” for months. Every day my Facebook page was filled with posts about the Respect ABQ Women Campaign and news about the upcoming election.
It’s pretty much a consensus, especially among many younger voters, that the current political climate isn’t really helping many people besides those already in power and low-information voters in both parties.
Editor, The Obama administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been a topic of several cartoons in recent issues of the Daily Lobo. As witty as these cartoons may be, they are not amusing.
“I saw him again today!” I said to Maggie. “I was on the last part of my run and he was biking to class. We made eye contact as we passed. I flipped my hair and put forth more effort in those 30 seconds of my run than the previous hour! If only he knew that he was my secret lover.”
Editor, Very few people would argue that bad behavior always results from bad intent. So it is puzzling that in Friday’s Peer Review, Veena Patel claims that “The coupling of neuroscience and law allows us to update our ethical system to understand that bad behavior isn’t always bad intention.” The apparently unexamined aspect of this notion that an ethical code is in need of updating is a bit disconcerting, as is the implication that we all are in need of top-down enlightenment.
If ever there was a time to establish a World Parliament, it is now, in order to legislate strict punishment for hate crimes committed by local nationals against innocent migrants crossing borders for productive, law-abiding activity. No longer can distinct countries be trusted to enforce their own laws within their own borders.
Editor, I agree with Mac Morin’s well-written letter objecting to Bible cherry-picking in Tuesday’s Daily Lobo. However, as to his comment on consistency, I’m reminded of Charles Kettering’s famous quote: “Beware of logic; it is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.”
It is your turn to be the doctor. Here is our case of the week. I’m presenting it to you because we have had more than our usual cases of this particular malady this school year. See if you can figure out what is wrong with this fake patient before I give you the answer.
Editor, The fallacious act of cherry-picking with regard to Old Testament scripture has become so frequent today that the average layperson becomes lost in a sea of “straw man” argumentation. Christians themselves have been guilty time and time again of cherry-picking various portions of the Bible in order to substantiate a claim.
Editor, We, as members of Catholic Apologetics Fellowship and Evangelization, would like to respond to an advertisement in the Tuesday, November 12 issue of the Daily Lobo. As a Catholic organization, it is our obligation to respond and portray Catholic Doctrine accurately and consistently.
In order to understand the ethics surrounding the abortion issue, there are two central questions which are determinative: (1) Do human beings possess intrinsic value? (2) Is the developing fetus a human being?
Editor, Speaking for the body of pro-lifers, we do not condemn nor hate women who have abortions or who believe in abortion. I am a woman, among many, who fights for the right that born and unborn human beings have to life.
Controversial evidence from neuroscience is pushing our legal system to reconsider what compels people to commit heinous crimes. The criminal justice system has historically been philosophical in nature, shaped by the prevailing values in society.
Editor, And so yet another letter from a “pro-choice” person, Kendall Lovely, which completely ignores the people who have no choice in the abortion debate – the 5-month-old fetuses who have brains, hearts and the ability to hear their mothers’ voices and heartbeats.
When you think of a superhero, what comes to mind? If you are like my friends and me, then you might be thinking of rippling muscles, a stylish outfit and a cape that just won’t stop. But that is not the only reason we are attracted to heroes, right?
The following is a letter home from the annual war on Christmas.
The Bible contains both poison crap and precious wisdom. Tragically, many people swallow both the poison crap and the precious wisdom and proclaim it all as the Word of God. Deuteronomy 7:2 says, “And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.”
I want empathy; at least some. In recent weeks, I’ve found myself getting more and more disappointed by the lack of empathy expressed by my fellow Albuquerque citizens with regard to the upcoming abortion ban vote. Although I can’t see myself ever getting an abortion past twenty weeks, or even before that point, I can still imagine how difficult a position some women find themselves where they may have to choose to undergo such a surgery.
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