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Current affairs in the Philippines and overseas.

Waters under the bridge

Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Governance, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

As early as June 26th, helicopters from the USS Ronald Reagan began delivering relief supplies to Iloilo and other areas hardest hit by Typhoon Frank . . . even before the aircraft carrier reached Philippine waters.
Bad idea, according to Sen. Pong Biazon who pointed out that a U.S. warship was not the proper response to […]

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The road from Unity

Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Headliners | Leave a Comment

By most accounts, the first public appearance of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton together on the same stage after the bruising Democratic primaries was a day of unity, albeit heavily scripted, including the choice of the venue . . . a small town in New Hampshire called Unity. And everything unfolded in a way that […]

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Barack makes history but Hillary resists being one

Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment

Barack Obama has effectively become the first-ever African-American to be his party’s presidential standard bearer but what’s Hillary Rodham Clinton now up to?
Her odd metric . . . pointing out that she has garnered more popular votes than Obama . . . can’t possibly set aside the reality that Barack has gone over the […]

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