OPINIONS
by Paul Ballard
April 16, 2013
“To increase our dependence on shale gas from fracking would be a dangerous detour from developing a responsible, sustainable energy policy. Natural gas is not a bridge; it’s a gangplank to a destabilized climate and an impoverished economy.” ~ Michael Brune, Sierra Club, 2013. Continue reading →
by Rodel Rodis
May 1, 2013
After the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) law was finally passed in 2003, its most enthusiastic supporters vowed to get it immediately amended as soon as possible. This effort would take almost a decade of patient lobbying but, at long last, the Amended Overseas Voting Act (OVA) was approved by the Philippine Congress on February 7, 2013 with overwhelming multi-partisan support. Continue reading →
by Dr. Philip S. Chua.
May 1, 2013
The body is a wonderful natural chemical factory. Whatever we eat, drink or apply to our body is absorbed and automatically transformed to energy (fuel) or to various hormones and substances that control our total bodily function, including thought processes, mental state, behavior, and cellular responses and reactions. Continue reading →
by Fermin Salvador.
May 1, 2013
Walang kagawaran (department) ng kultura sa US, ang federal man o mga pang-estadong gobyerno. Pero pag binanggit ang pariralang “kulturang Amerikano” ay wala marahil lahi sa mundo na walang sariling pakahulugan o interpretasyon. Continue reading →
 by Fred C. Wilson III
May 1, 2013
On Income Tax Day April 15th two bombs detonated killing three people injuring over 200 others at the Finish Line of the Boston Marathon. Bloody mangled remnants that were once whole human beings littered streets, walls, and sidewalks of that historic city. What was supposed to have been a sunny Bostonian day celebrating their 116th marathon ended in carnage. Continue reading →
by Don Azarias
May 1, 2013
Those mostly Democrat-leaning American voters might be wondering why the majority of Congressional Republican lawmakers are standing their ground and refusing to compromise with President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies regarding the seemingly never-ending budget battle. Continue reading →
by Arnold De Villa
May 1, 2013
We all have pet peeves. Mine is the one that poses itself as a dead ended excuse, a cul-de-sac, and a blocked response. It goes like this: Question: “Why did you come into this situation?” Answer: “I do not have a choice”. Question: “Is there anything else that you could do?” Response: “I do not have any choice”. Question: “Why did you have to pay so much?” Answer: “I have no other choice”. It goes like a pit – ad infinitum, ad libidem and ad nauseam. Continue reading →
May 1, 2013
If China attacked the United States, she had better knock her out in the first strike. Otherwise, the U.S. would unleash 1,654 nuclear warheads on 792 deployed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), B-52 bombers, and B-2 stealth bombers. China has approximately 240 warheads and an undetermined number of ICBMs. But who would fire the first ICBM? Continue reading →
May 1, 2013
Given the depressed state of the U.S. economy, policymakers’ goal should be stimulating near-term economic recovery, not reaching an arbitrary 10-year deficit reduction target, a new Economic Policy Institute-The Century Foundation report finds. In Dangerous targets: Why setting a specific deficit reduction target would worsen the economic and fiscal situation. Continue reading →
by Paul Ballard
April 16, 2013
In 2014 when our troops finally depart Afghanistan, America will be at peace for the first time since the Nine Eleven attack in 2001. Fittingly that will be almost a quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought an end to the Cold War. Continue reading →
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