Today's DN

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I'm big on the police selectively taxing our society. They do it with speeding and they are doing it again here. Every bar, ever, has served drunks. If they are actually "cracking down" on anything, then they would go out every night and hand out tickets. Instead, the finance department tells them the city needs more money, so hand out a bunch of tickets.

The reason it is selective taxation is because these tickets could be given to every bar and every bartender. Instead, it occurs every once in a while.

On the speeding issue, I believe this could be taken to court and won. Police don't pull over speeders if they are only speeding slightly. They wait for the big time speeders. Here in Maryland, when driving into D.C. there are three lanes. One for driving the speed limit, one for going ten over, and a third for going 20+ over. Every day. How does pulling one person in that extremely large population of drivers not signify a selection? If the law is the law, then anyone breaking that law, to any degree, should be pulled over. The first person that officer sees breaking the law should be pulled over. Instead, he waits for the bigger tickets.

How is it determined which car in the lot is to be pulled over? Why should the leader of a pack get pulled over when he was probably slowing down the rest of the cars behind him? Ok, I'm done for now.

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I thought it was funny how the typical journalist viewed them self here. Juan Franco wanted the TNE story to just not get any press so that their actions wouldn't get noticed. DN's response:

Right, because the only way to end racism, sexism, sadism and homophobia is through silence. The best way to build a campus environment that is accepting of minorities, women and gays is to ignore the student-produced hate literature that appears on campus each semester.

You have got to be a complete idiot, Staff Editorial, for thinking you have any juice in the path to ending racism, sexism... How often do you guys look in the mirror and tell yourself how pretty you are?

There is no way of ending racism, etc., but publicizing their actions will only lead to an increase in followers. These TNE clowns weren't trying to be funny, and they probably aren't a group of racists. What they are trying to do is be controversial. They used their secrecy so they wouldn't have to answer for their actions. It appears that the DN gave them exactly what they wanted. Whatever, it's news, but don't act like you are doing it for the better of the public.

We all know there is truly no such thing as “secret” at UNL – especially in the greek system’s tight-nit culture of looking out for each other.

We all know this... wait.

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I'm hoping Paul does something further on Trace, because Paul loves'em. But I will simply say that the fore fathers wanted separation from church and state because they didn't want America to turn into Britain by having the Pope basically being a ruler. Do this or go to hell, kind of thing.

He also defines patriot as being conservative with Christian values (basically), but I disagree here as well. To be patriotic (in my words), you must have the countries interest at heart. You must understand how we got to become a great country and respect that as well. The problem is support of our military is key, IMO, to being patriotic. With out them, we would be nothing. The reason so many liberals are considered unpatriotic is because they say they support our military, but their actions disprove it.

And the poke at Fox News. Gotta love it. You've got every other news program and cable news station spouting liberal propaganda, but forbid the one station that has a conservative belief system.

Trace, Paul was right, you are a good writer, but like most journalists, you fail to connect all the pieces of the puzzle, and instead take the few pieces you like and make them fit together.

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Dreamgirls didn't make best picture. Boo hoo. I never saw it, could be a great movie... whatever. What Cyndi failed to do was pick out which movie did make the cut and shouldn't have. Then, she might have an article on her hand. Instead, she is promoting racism by giving blacks a reason to be upset. All the facts aren't there for blacks to decide if this is an issue or not, but that doesn't seem to be important in journalism these days.