Perhaps it’s letter-writer Jake Harris (“Pledge fine as is, love it or leave it,” SN 7/3) who should leave if they don’t like living in a country with constitutional checks and balances.
I have a problem with the headline, “Patriots pass up polls,” which appeared on the front page of The State News (SN 7/8). If you check your Webster’s dictionary, you will see that a patriot is “one who loves his country and zealously supports its authority and interests.” Thus, one could not “pass up the polls” and still be a patriot, in the correct sense of the word. Bill Nurnberger Haslett resident
What really irks me about the annexation/land sharing situation between Bath Township and the city of East Lansing is not so much the flawed state law that allows such municipal bullying, but the greed of the city government, and its affiliates, the Melrose Apartments residents who initially started the whole thing.
A note to college students: You are lazy and apathetic. That statement may sound mean and accusatory, but the numbers speak for themselves.
Being an MSU graduate, I am truly embarrassed by the letter to the editor written by Jake Harris, “Pledge fine as is, love it or leave it” (SN 7/3). “If they don’t like it, they can leave the country?” Wasn’t this country founded on religious freedom?
This letter is in response to Drew Harmon’s column, “Pledge decision correct to eliminate religion, being American not about God” (SN 7/3). When I first saw the title of the column I had to laugh, because it is the typical liberal opinion that The State News shoves down our throats.
The long lines at blood drives that became common after Sept. 11 have dwindled and raised concerns about the country’s supply.
This past weekend, having a few hours, I watched the movie “Shallow Hal.” I thought the comedy might be a good way to relieve some of my agitation that had built after I had spent the week kvetching about the Pledge of Allegiance debate.
The Fourth of July has always been a happy time for me and my family - a time when we gather to celebrate our country and put up and wear an awful lot of stars and stripes.
I’m sorry that the State News feels the way about the Pledge of Allegiance as stated in the editorial “Ill Allegiances” (SN 7/1). Despite the fact that our nation’s government is secular, our country was founded on the principle of religious belief.
The editorial “Ridiculous riots” (SN 6/27), criticizing Raphael Adley’s entertaining simulation of campus rioting was ridiculous.
The recent deal to share 1,056 acres in Bath Township with East Lansing was not as much of a voluntary agreement as it was an unwilling submission.
Leave the Pledge of Allegiance alone! If you don’t like the “under God” part, you don’t have to believe it or say it, but the leave it in the pledge.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent public schools down a dangerous road that leads to infringing the rights of thousands of middle and high school students.
In lieu of this heat wave, I would like to pose this question to the MSU administration: Why is it that faculty and staff offices and most buildings with classrooms are air-conditioned, but dorms used for summer housing are not?
Buffalo Wild Wings may face some unexpected opposition to its seemingly innocent proposal to expand its Albert Avenue location. In recent months, the East Lansing City Council has pushed an effort to reduce the number of seats in downtown available at businesses serving alcohol.
I’ve been an innocent, Catholic, law-abiding citizen for 20 years; no underage drinking, no pot smoking and no jaywalking - until now.
The recent ruling by the San Francisco 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, while certainly unpopular, is the ethically and legally correct decision in the matter.
Due in part to a recent conversation, I have gained an interest in answering the question of why the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, and the World Bank are seen as evil institutions to people in my age group, but the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, a multinational oil cartel bent on profits at the expense of the most common people of member countries, seems to escape both dissent or thoughts of consternation.
I recently read Shawn Dhar’s letter to the editor, “Palestinian peace may be impossible,” (SN 6/24) and I was a little taken aback by the author’s attitude.