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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Satirical comments about Madison made me famous

Published November 12, 2003

In my last purely sarcastic column, "University Homecoming moving to Madison," I briefly commented on how Minnesotans could show Wisconsinites a good time during the Madison Halloween festivities. Boy,...

Potential global conflict over water shortage must be averted

Published November 10, 2003

Water, water everywhere, not any drop to drink." This famous quote has taken an infamous, contentious overtone. Held in March, the Third World Water Forum in Japan made some dire and ominous predictions...

Media concentration concern overblown

Published November 10, 2003

Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns the Fox broadcast network and Fox-branded cable channels such as Fox News and Fox Sports, has become the choice bogeyman for media consolidation critics. Media critics...

The truth about ‘dilation and extraction’

Published November 10, 2003

R.R.S. Stewart lays out an interesting argument against the partial-birth abortion ban in her Wednesday column, "Medical decisions should be left to woman and doctor." While acknowledging this procedure...

Hate speech should not be tolerated

Published November 7, 2003

On Oct. 10, the Daily published Lindsay Brown's column, "Bible clearly forbids homosexuality." Usually, such opinions focus on "hate the sin, but love the sinner." This one was different. I don't care...

Support Maranatha for legal reasons

Published November 7, 2003

Both Worship and Prayer Fellowship and my organization, Campus Republicans, support Maranatha Christian Fellowship's lawsuit against the Board of Regents. Unfortunately, it is unlikely other groups will...

Religious anti-homosexual comments shouldn’t be printed

Published November 7, 2003

For as long as I can remember (I have worked at the University for 25 years) there have been regular opinion pieces printed in the Daily describing homosexuality in terms equivalent to anathema. Citations...

Students might learn about Dakota war

Published November 7, 2003

Despite all the predictable debate over the Minnesota Department of Education's proposed guidelines for K-12 social science education, they do include an event often unmentioned in Minnesota history classes...

Economy overshadows presidential issues

Published November 6, 2003

It's the economy, stupid." If this economy kick-starts into strong growth over the next year, then there is virtually no chance the U.S. electorate will replace President George W. Bush with a Democrat....

Gay intolerance more like Pontius Pilate than Jesus

Published November 6, 2003

October brought a chilling, homophobic wind into my peaceful, lesbian household. It began with an Oct. 10 guest column by Lindsay Brown, explaining that the Bible is very clear about condemning homosexuals...

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