Opinion

Letter To The Editor: First Use Your Head, Then Heart

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By JACOB HOLLIS
Los Alamos
 
With stories of toddlers washed up on beaches, and abductions of children, it is easy to see why the Syrian Refugee Crisis is an emotionally charged issue.
 
However, as Albert Camus once said, “Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” And with the media blowing everything out of proportion, it is difficult to be informed.
 
However, I do believe that just the risk of one refugee being a terrorist is enough to outweigh any potential gain. The fact is we do not know if any of the refugees are dangerous, but we do know that
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Letter To The Editor: I Stand With Ofc. Jordan Redmond

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By JENNIFER and BILL MCKERLEY
Los Alamos

We believe Ofc. Jordan Redmond is an honorable man. One of the many ways he has shown his dedication to the community has been through five and half years of service with the Los Alamos Police Department.

Ofc. Jordan, as he was called during his service at the high school, has been terminated from the LAPD. In addition, he has been charged with a misdemeanor regarding the alleged infraction. As Jordan Redmond is an honorable man, he would not have maliciously violated policy or law, so there must be some kind of misunderstanding about legitimate work and pay.  Read More

Letter To The Editor: Will Branding Effort Ever End?

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By DOTTY REILLY
Los Alamos

The Los Alamos County Council’s effort to find a new brand for Los Alamos seems to be verging on the ridiculous. 

Thank goodness Live Exponentially was shelved. However the nearly quarter of a million involved in this effort seems like “spending exponentially” to me. Is there no “limit on the horizon” to this expenditure?   

The entire process seems to have “elements that are beyond imagination.” Perhaps it is time to start “questioning the possibility” that this effort could ever reach completion.

Maybe this “experience is reaching a peak” and everyone Read More

Letter To The Editor: Rules Of The Road Changed

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By ELIZABETH JACOB
Los Alamos
 
Hear, hear Daren Savage on your letter to the editor in the Nov. 2 publication of the Los Alamos Daily Post.
 
I do a lot of walking in this town usually accompanied by my big black dog Boo and I always have to be on the defensive against the inconsiderate drivers who choose not to see you trying to cross the street at an intersection or a designated cross walk.
 
I guess the Rules of the Road have changed where pedestrians no longer have the right of way.
 
Maybe it’s time our Los Alamos Police Department should start patrolling the
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Letter To The Editor: Why Can’t We Just Take Them Out? Consider The Costs

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By KHALIL J. SPENCER
Los Alamos

Stephanie Nakheleh (letter) makes some good points about the limits of military intervention and quite accurately points out the time and effort it would take to suppress an ideological movement by brute force.

Neither the U.S. nor the USSR was able to “pacify” Afghanistan, for example, in spite of decades of blood and treasure devoted to that effort. But while it is not possible to easily eradicate an ideology, it may be possible to destroy it if one declares total war. But one has to ask if the cure would be worse than the disease.

The way that Nazism and Japanese imperial Read More

Letter To The Editor: Understanding World Religions Outside Scope Of Our Experiences

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By Rev. John Cullinan
Los Alamos
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Letter To The Editor: Why Can’t We Just Take Them Out?

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By STEPHANIE NAKHLEH
Los Alamos

The other day CNN’s Jim Acosta spoke for millions of Americans when he demanded of the President, “Why can’t we just take out those bastards?” On the face of it, this seems like a fair question. We have the world’s largest military, many times over, and allies who will back us. Why can’t we just … get rid of them?

It’s worth taking a minute to remember Afghanistan and Iraq. We went in there to get rid of the bastards, and there was no pussyfooting around, it was a full-on boots-and-bombs war, waged with the power of Read More

Letter To The Editor: Bomb Scare

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By Lynne Compton
Los Alamos

How refreshing it is that in this town of relative calm unusual things get noticed. Friday it was a false alarm in a cooler at the wrong place that got noticed.

We as a people in these modern times most not take everything for granted. We should not live in fear but realize that sometimes a cooler may not contain a left over picnic someone forgot but something meant to harm and destroy. 

Kudos to the police officer that noticed and the firemen, bomb squad and other police officers who answered the call not knowing that they might be in great danger.

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Letter To The Editor: ISIS, Terrorism, And Fear

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BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

I’m sure any terrorist will site some reason to validate their belief that their nihilistic violence is a good means to whatever end they seek. ISIS is no exception. They have been successful through their propaganda in recruiting young, marginalized men from all over the world.

I think it’s important to recognize they are attracting young men (not old), men of an age in which the prefrontal cortex has yet to fully develop and who thus lack an important requirement for accurate long-term decision-making. Consciously or not, ISIS takes advantage of this in their recruitment Read More

Eight Worlds To Explore In LALT’s ‘8×10’

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Iain May (William), Dan Shields (Darrell) and Rose Corrigan (Alicia) in ‘Night and Day.’ Photo by Larry Gibbons

Review By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Little Theatre is performing its fifth edition of “8×10,” an evening of eight short plays, about 10 minutes long each. The plays come mainly from local and regional playwrights.

These tasty morsels pack a lot of punch into a few short minutes. Watching one-acts is a bit like reading poetry vs. reading a novel. Every word has to count. This makes for some great dialogue when it works. Actors have to work hard Read More