Opinion

Research as a process of re-searching?

Published April 21, 2004

This last week, I found myself beneath an expansive monument of stone-carved men exploding with concrete muscle, fists thrust into the humid air, and trudging on a pool of cemented blood shed by U.S. soldiers...

From U.S. doctrine to political reality

Published April 20, 2004

A Cabinet-level Department of Peace should be just as urgent as homeland security.

Is The Minnesota Daily anti-Israel?

Published April 19, 2004

Some readers expressed displeasure over the publication of a letter they felt was chosen for "shock value."

Open letter to Victory Sports

Published April 19, 2004

Dear Victory Sports, You are an idiot. When I say that, I'm not just singling out one person in the organization (although you, Carl Pohlad, found about the only possible method of making more people hate...

‘Granny D’ to walk for worthy cause at the University

Published April 19, 2004

We need to face the truth: Money runs the world. Money in itself is not a bad thing, but simply a tool to forward certain agendas. It is how we, the populace of the planet, decide to use our money that...

Dear Mr. President: Enough with the rhetoric already, and take some speech lessons!

Published April 19, 2004

More important than democracy are peace and opportunities for peaceful self-actualization and fulfillment under any banner.

Blame Canada: Shell out for river cleanup

Published April 16, 2004

A Canadian smelter has dumped slag into the Columbia River for more than 100 years.

Privatizing the Iraqi occupation

Published April 16, 2004

Relying on private contractors to supply U.S. troops in the field is a risky proposition.

Heresy? Maybe. But we must fail in Iraq

by John Troyer
Published April 16, 2004

Bush spoke as if Monty Python wrote his foreign policy rationalizations.

You can love the people and not their practices

Published April 15, 2004

In his Monday opinion piece, Tim Campbell makes an appeal to "gays and gay-friendly people," asking them to "move forward" and support the movement to legalize homosexual marriage. He laments the fact...