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Commentary

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Columnist clears up misconceptions on Bush, religion, voting trends

In a previous column, "Bush supporters share common thread with fundamentalists" (SN 11/10), I mentioned a study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which found that majorities of President Bush voters were profoundly uninformed, and held erroneous beliefs about election issues and their candidate's policies.

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Easy on the nog

We know a lot of you are skipping class tomorrow. We won't rat you out. We will, however, take advantage of Tuesday's readership to offer some advice for the long Thanksgiving weekend. Alcohol, and binge drinking in particular, gets blamed for a lot of the less-than-desirable acts we see.

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Friday's NBA brawl being over-exposed

In response to the slew of editorials that have been all over the news about Friday's incident between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers, has anyone stopped to think that this is being blown out of proportion?

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Both sides of aisle perpetuate biases

I am writing in response to many editorials - not just in The State News - that have been accusing liberals of being especially hypocritical lately. There is an old saying that says "if you are not confused, then you are not thinking clearly." While I will not hesitate to admit that liberals have been especially belligerent in recent weeks, I urge everyone to consider the true source of their concern. I will admit that it took me a lot of soul searching and critical thought to come to the conclusion that I am an independent.

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GOP leadership is disrespectful of law

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives changed a rule they had on the books that would allow Tom DeLay, R-Texas, to keep his leadership position, even though he will soon face an indictment in Texas.

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Silver uniforms and Spartans don't mix

Thursday night, my girlfriend and I settled into our seats at Munn Ice Arena looking forward to watching the Green and White skate against Michigan in an early-season Central Collegiate Hockey Association match-up. We sang the fight song, urging the Spartans to "fight for the only colors, Green and White." Since it was a rivalry game, there was even a bit of a "Go Green, Go White" chant echoing off of Munn's venerable walls. So, you can imagine our surprise when the Spartans took the ice clad not in green and white, but in, well, some pretty dingy looking grayish-silver uniforms not unlike the ones the men's basketball team sported against Duke last season.

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'Horrible' movie did not deserve review

How could your reviewer give the movie "After the Sunset" four stars? The movie was horrible with bad acting, a bad storyline and it seemed to be more about how many times we could see Salma Hayek take her shirt off and make out with Pierce Brosnan, or how much she was skimping around in a thong bikini. Those two attributes seem to be the only things that gave her an acting career because the lines and the presentation are weak by all of the characters in the film. Ben Nemeth journalism sophomore

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Contemptible

Last summer, The State News ran an editorial commending the Detroit Pistons and their fans for putting a blue-collar stamp on the otherwise-glitzy and egomaniacal world of professional basketball.

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Commendable

The Spartans total offensive package was not delivered Saturday at Penn State. Although there's the depressing realization that the Spartans will not advance to a bowl game, we have to acknowledge this was by no means a losing season. If MSU prevails in its Dec.

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Local authorities should relax MIPs

East Lansing and MSU police have become crazy with the number of minor in possession tickets they are willing to distribute when there are many other problems they could focus on. Police around campus want to blame drinking as the problem for numerous crimes committed on or near campus.

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Practice of pardoning White House's Thanksgiving turkey must end

There is no practice more inane, no tradition more vapid and no photo opportunity more whorish than the annual Thanksgiving "pardoning" of the White House turkey. Each Thanksgiving since the days of Harry Truman, the president "pardons" a turkey to a presumably pastoral life of pecking at the ground and looking at things around the farm or forest that move.

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Most sports fans need manners class

This is in regards to the University of Wisconsin junior's comments regarding fan behavior in Spartan Stadium. I don't condone rude behavior at football games by adults or students.

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Column writing has responsibility to it

I have to be honest; I wasn't pleased after reading Lindsey Anderson's column ("Thank you, supporters of President Bush, for four years of tyranny" SN 11/16). The bottom line is that even though this is an opinion article on the editorial page, it is not right to insinuate that 51 million Americans are stupid.

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Live document

The mission of the U.S. Constitution is to enumerate and protect the rights of Americans and to provide a loose framework of ideas open to interpretation and modification.

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Keeping mum

Sometime Thursday morning - when a television reporter was convicted of criminal contempt in Providence, R.I., for refusing to identify his source - the prospect of First Amendment rights to a free press took a step back. The reporter, Jim Taricani of WJAR-TV, faces up to six months in prison for protecting his source who leaked an FBI tape of a city official taking a bribe. Technically, what happened to Taricani is allowed for under judicial interpretations of the First Amendment.