March 14, 2008
March 11, 2008
Women have the same set of feathers. Well, not generally, but metaphorically--since all women have a distinctive personality, like men of course. But one cannot take away the categorical representation of gender in the society. My main issue here tackles the candidacy of Hillary Clinton--as she is...
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My wife Mara and I have been ecstatic about the idea of Barack Obama as the first person of color to become president of the United States. But she sadly pointed out something recently: Chances are that many Filipinos will not vote for a black person. I hope she’s wrong. But there’s a basis for ...
go to article »February 17, 2008
Now I know I am Australian and what I know about US politics you could write on the head of a match. I do read the newspapers and online journals and I do listen to the radio/tv. I have already read one report that describes McCain and Huckabee as ‘frenemies’. It seems to me that if they do h...
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Barack Obama is responding to insinuations that he is a covert Muslim worshipping in a liberal Africa-focused church. There are two emails in circulation capitalizing on the Muslim belief of Obama’s father and the atheism of his mother, insinuating that his attendance at a Christian church is a co...
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It has been said time and again that Filipinos, wherever they are, are one of the most political people in the world. Politics, especially Philippine Politics, is oftentimes viewed with the same interest and gusto as any television show or series. It has, simply, become part of our everyday life and...
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Oh, all right, so he’s not Filipino. But he did live in Indonesia which is close enough, right? He also grew up in Hawaii, a state where the Pinoy community is huge and has even had a Pinoy governor. And if the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison can claim that Bill Clinton was the first Af...
go to article »February 14, 2008
So Mitt has decided to suspend his bid for GOP nominee. This comes as a huge disappointment to his supporters and to McCain opposers alike, but all the same, after Super Tuesday played out we all kind of saw it coming. Super Tuesday was a beast in its own though. From West Virginia shenanagens t...
go to article »February 13, 2008
Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and the march to freedom of the Filipinos in Diaspora. The current electoral contest between Senator Hillary Clinton of New York and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is turning into a very hot issue among the Filams here in the East Coast. I noticed that among the c...
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Born in the Philippines and raised in Bahrain, Eunice del Rosario was a journalist for the Gulf Daily News for nearly 10 years. She also wrote several articles for a number of publications in the Arabian Gulf and her native Philippines. In 2007, Eunice moved to Houston, Texas in the US. She is also a strong supporter of a number of charities, including the Special Olympics and Dreamflight UK.
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