A week ago I was having a conversation with my friends about race and Hurricane Katrina. I argued at the time that it was more important to get relief efforts up and running than to waste time pointing fingers and talking about race.
John Knowles' latest 'masterpiece,' "Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most," (SN 9/13) is unfit to be printed in The State News because almost all the facts are wrong, which makes his message laughable at best.
In response to the recent editorial "Inquired views" (SN 9/13), Judge John Roberts doesn't need to answer any question that would relate to something that he might have to vote on when confirmed.
If anybody is under the impression that another white, male Supreme Court justice is something that must be avoided or compensated for, they are either racist or sexist. The purpose of the Supreme Court is to uphold the Constitution as the law of the land.
It's true. Hurricanes are now fiercer than before because of the Earth's climate change, and Americans can, and need to, help. A new study released last week in the journal "Science" showed evidence that the average number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes increased from 10 per year in the 1970s to 18 each year after 1990, with average tropical sea surface temperatures increasing as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit in that same time. This evidence correlates with the idea that global warming might be the cause of increased devastation from hurricanes. We've got the proof.
This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to instruct a critical thinking and current events class for the Kings-Chavez-Parks, or KCP, program.
With everyone's attention focused appropriately on the relief effort on the Gulf Coast, the president is trying to pull a fast one behind our backs.
John Matthew Knowles' column "Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most" (SN 9/13) highlights his lack of respect for other people's lives and their freedoms. While he rightly condemns Saddam Hussein's brutal oppression of the Iraqi people, he ignores that it was the similar ideological conflicts against Shi'a Iran and socialist countries, sold to the American people on half-truths and xenophobia, that provided for Hussein to be armed and supported with the chemical weapons that allowed these crimes to happen. Once again, we are told that we ought to support this war against evil terrorists, and ignore any voices of dissent that sometimes squeak through in the American mass media. How can one claiming to speak for freedom and democracy so callously talk of "pointless dwelling on events in Abu Ghraib." This is about thousands of people tortured, raped and sometimes murdered in prisons that are ultimately under the authority of the American-supported government. Yasir Suhail 2005 graduate
Voters need to decide if they are willing to commit to the same legislator for 14 years. A long-term legislator might be preferable to some citizens, but it might also limit potential government leaders.
I was extremely disappointed after reading John Knowles' column "Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most" (SN 9/13.) He really has no clue why the Iraq war is so wrong. This war is not about oil, as he says the media tries to tell us.
Paul Wilk's comments ("Resident angered by tragedy response", SN 9/9) about MSU students were ruthless.
In response to the column "I'm not paying" (SN 9/13) regarding ASMSU's involvement with trying to lower the parking meter prices, I would just like to ask, whom does The State News think ASMSU represents?
It's tough to please everyone in a column. During the summer semester, an intriguing discussion on sin and homosexuality took place in the Letters to the Editor section of The State News Opinion Page.
I sincerely hope that John Knowles ("Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most" SN 9/13) will let us know when he ships out to Iraq so we can send care packages.
After reading the State News article "Area reacts to same-sex marriage bill" (SN 9/8), I was struck with the dangerous misunderstanding of the difference between a right and a privilege. This is more than just a semantic detail.
For the second year in a row, the Izzone directors have scheduled the annual Izzone campout during women's greek recruitment. For the second year in a row, I have complained. Last year, the directors responded to me by saying, "We are making no exceptions for the campout," and never touched upon their overlap with greek recruitment.
Mike Ramsey's editorial cartoon (SN 9/12) has somehow, just when I thought it could not be done, managed to make the staff of The State News seem even more sub-human. Do you print things like this for the shock value, or do you really feel that the economy is in tatters and we do not respect human rights or civil liberties in this country?
It was a nauseating experience to see John Knowles' "Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most" (SN 9/13) opinion on the justification of the Iraq occupation. It felt like an overdose of Fox News sound bytes compounded by hallucinations such as the notion of a "liberal media." The media is supposed to report the facts, and it's obvious that there is something preventing this when people as muddled as Knowles deny that "Bush lied." Iraq had no part in the Sept.
It seems that one group of Hurricane Katrina victims has been overlooked in the effort to recover from this terrible disaster. As the former first lady and mother of the current president, Barbara Bush so astutely observed upon her visit to the Houston Astrodome - "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them"- we can now rest assured that the tens of thousands of displaced New Orleans have been adequately cared for. And our concerns can be focused on the real victims of the hurricane.
To continue my dialogue with Makito Yurita on "U.S.