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On Enhanced Interrogation
Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I’m not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many [...]
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Part 2
Mainly as a reaction to this, this, semi-agreement to this, and a follow-up to this, my two cents on the petition against EO 210.
As an aside, EO 210 is the executive order deceptively called “Establishing the Policy to Strengthen English as a Second Language in the Educational System.”. Deceptive becaue its provisions look more like [...]
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Dogs Led By Fleas
I figure I better write this already before it becomes irrelevent.
Has anyone else noticed how increasingly, US Politics is taking its cue from Philippine Politics?
Not exactly when it comes to the issues, because after all, the Philippines isn’t exactly rich enough to start discussing stem cell research or liberal enough to start talking about abortion [...]
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After School Specials
Now that the drama over the First Gentleman’s heart condition is settling down, it’s interesting to note that one particular consequence is that Filipinos are now more aware about these kinds of medical conditions.
And then I remember that, way back during Estrada’s impeachment trial, the same thing more or less happened, with everyone suddenly becoming [...]
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Talk About A Slow News Day
From the headlines of the Philippine Daily Inquirer,
Pinoys cooked adobo where killer lived
By Romeo E. Capuno Jr.
Inquirer
Last updated 03:19am (Mla time) 04/28/2007
BLACKSBURG, Virginia—Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech student who shot more than 30 people, lived on the second floor of Harper Hall, where members of the Filipino Students Association (FSA) had cooked adobo and pancit [...]
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