Category: Letters to the Editor

In northern Uganda, a war led by abducted child soldiers has been taking place for 17 years. They are kidnapped at night from remote African villages and forced into a violent and militaristic lifestyle by rebel factions, becoming part of a “kid military.” They are targeted at the ages of 8 to 14, making them […]

Forget Mardi Gras. It’s time to focus on something that students actually have a say about. I’m talking about Wildflower. For those of you who don’t know what it is, Wildflower is a Tri-California event where Cal Poly students camp out and volunteer for a weekend for the second largest triathlon in the world. Last […]

Where is the consistency? Why is it that when Scott Peterson killed his wife he was convicted of second degree murder of the fetus, yet when countless numbers of women choose to have an abortion, we don’t try them for murder. Is there a difference in the thing growing inside the murdered woman and that […]

What a short memory Jack Ingram has. It was less than a month ago that Jack wrote “Political convictions without political labels,” an article denouncing political labels. (I won’t even begin to describe the irony of such an article appearing in a column labeled “From the Liberal Perspective.”) Just this past Tuesday in his article […]

Oh, another abortion debate, an issue that neither side understands the other on, but let me give my interpretation and I can read why I am wrong in upcoming issues. The Republicans’ ultimate goal is to outlaw abortions, not stop abortions, just outlaw them. I say this because Republicans refuse to fund anything but abstinence-only […]

No thank you or any kind of gratitude needs to be given to us students, Mr. Morton. The ones that deserve the credit are the over 350 “peace officers” from all over the state that put this town into such a paranoid fear over the weekend that even things as sneezing in front of a […]

I was just concerned about the course of action this city has taken toward an event that was supposed to unify the community not divide and conquer it. Lets take a look at the definition of fascism – oppressive, dictatorial control. I think this word sums up the path the city chose to take this […]

You want specifics? I’ll start with Jack. Didn’t you write that you don’t like to stereotype? Has something changed? Your entire editorial was rife with stereotypes of conservatives. All that aside, you ignore the fact that liberals are doing just as much to erode personal freedoms as conservatives. Is it conservatives that want to ban […]

Can you imagine a country where one small group of elitists controls the whole country and its resources, where there is no such thing as voting, free speech or even in some cases, the right to have more than one child? I can, it’s called communism. You should feel lucky that we “fascists” over here […]

In response to Jack Ingram’s Feb. 28 commentary – What are you trying to accomplish? Every time I read an article whose sole purpose is to bash on the beliefs of other Americans, I grow and more and more concerned that this country has entered an unrecoverable tailspin of hate, ignorance and the refusal of […]

Thanks to SLO police officers for a really quiet weekend. In fact, this weekend was even more quiet than any other normal weekend. I do not even want to go out with three or four cops driving around my house. Maybe this is what police want to see, all college students will be locked in […]