Amadeo in his usual masterful prose has written: Pardon my heresy but I find it hard to believe that electing a national president could be that elementally crucial to life, or no, maybe just so life- or game-changing (?) for an entire country of people. Isn’t it that after all we go through this process [...]
Why not medical marijuana in RP?
October 26, 2009 By 15 Comments
If there is an evolving policy pattern across US whereby medical marijuana can now be prescribed for use of patients, why not one in RP – free of any serious legal debate? Can not the government now relax the law against use of marijuana for purely medical purpose? Clinical researches are about to prove of [...]
Rep. Joe Wilson, The Epitome of The Right Wing Heckler
September 11, 2009 By 72 Comments
I consider myself a moderate democrat, that’s because I can sometimes disagree with the decisions of the party as a whole, but watching President Barack Obama’s Health Care address to a joint session of Congress, I couldn’t stem the tide of anger as I saw the disrespect that should never be bestowed upon a President [...]
Youth vote – how will it swing?
May 16, 2009 By 86 Comments
Has anyone done an extrapolation on how the youth vote in 2004 swung – in terms of who did it vote as president? What, for example, is the configuration reflective of those between the ages of 18 to 35 (by UN definition) from the 12.9 million that made GMA president? US President Barack Obama, in [...]
Barack Obama’s First 100 Days
April 28, 2009 By 5 Comments
In just three more days, Barack Obama will mark his first 100 days in office as The President of The United States of America. In probably the toughest first 100 days a president has ever had since the great depression, a great number Americans are surprisingly confident and assured that the nation is finally on [...]
What is Obama’s Asia policy?
March 4, 2009 By 28 Comments
Notwithstanding Asia being the destination of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first foreign trip as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat, it remains unclear to me whether Asia would indeed occupy a prominent place in the new US administration’s foreign policy. As many pundits on this site and everywhere note, the Philippines has gone off the Americans’ radar. [...]
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