Before discussions become heated and this column becomes a political battle, I want to say I’m not against Second Amendment rights. This column is not to advocate the taking of our weapons or of the breaching of our American rights.
I’d like to congratulate not only my homosexual friends, but also those with whom I’m not acquainted, for the successful defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act.
It would have been easy for NSA analyst Edward Snowden to say nothing, to stay quiet and keep doing what he was doing. It would have been easy for him to live his comfortable and lucrative life, rake in the money of his well-paid position at the American spy agency and get rich.
Unless Congress acts, interest rates on new subsidized student loans will double on July 1, 2013, impacting thousands of students across New Mexico. With rising tuitions and fees at public universities, taking out loans to make the investment in higher education is almost par for the course.
There’s been an article floating around Facebook and Twitter, courtesy of addictinginfo.org, about how the Founding Fathers were really the “Founding Liberals,” and how Democrats — not Republicans — have the right to claim that founding legacy for themselves.
Editor, Before Reaganomics became how we Americans deal with economics, the prosperity rating for us was number one on the planet. Today it is 27th.
Amelia Hoover Green, With regard to Miller’s “hateful” tweet, I feel compelled to clarify what I feel are inaccuracies with your rebuttal. While Miller’s analogy may not be entirely logical, there certainly is a lot of underlying #truth, as applied to our society as a whole.
“Dear obese Ph.D. applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth.” This hateful, hurtful and deeply inaccurate statement is the work of UNM professor Geoffrey Miller.
Editor, Just like the front of a box of crayons, the GOP has once again shown their true colors. As legislation to prevent student loan interest rates from automatically doubling on July 1 goes down the tubes, the Republican chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee acknowledges that President Obama must submit to a GOP deal or take the blame for interest rates doubling.
Editor, In the May 28-June 2 edition of the Daily Lobo, columnist Devon Stevens took a heavy-handed swipe at the “Fun in the 505” booklet produced by the student employees of the Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention: COSAP.
In her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes for the esteemed Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jodie Foster said, “If you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you’d had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else.
Last Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the official enactment of the 17th Amendment, a widely accepted but nonetheless extremely controversial measure that contributed greatly to the erosion of American federalism and aided the supremacy of democracy over the rule of law in this country.
Editor, I have noticed lately that the Human Resources Department at UNM, like many HR departments at great universities, is pushing employees to buy into 403(b) and 457(b) plans.
Editor, Your report of the food fight with tens of thousands of tomatoes exemplifies this country’s brazen waste of mounds of precious food in events like this and other similar events such as food-eating contests that occur all over.
UNM president Robert Frank said recently that if his school does not get the contract to manage Sandia National Laboratories, it would risk becoming like Central New Mexico Community College.
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