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Yet another way to celebrate American awesomeness today before you blow off your fingers and, even worse, put ketchup on your hot dogs, is to remember how we rely on global slavery and other forms of labor exploitation to make the products we use everyday,...

Infrastructure

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On August 5, 2014

While I'm not at all questioning the terrible state of infrastructure in the Philippines and how it costs the nation much productivity and thus money, but it's worth noting that.

The always useful Executed Today reminds us of another lovely event in American history: On this date in 1902, two African-American U.S. Army privates were hanged before a crowd of 3,000 at Guinobatan, Philippines for deserting to the anti-occupation insurgency. The 7,000 black soldiers deployed...

Cory Aquino

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On August 1, 2009
Rest in peace.I had the good fortune to meet President Aquino twice, once in 1996 and once in 1997. At the first meeting I was running the media equipment for her meeting with the University of Oregon Philippine-American Student Association. My boss gave me one...

The Philippine Analogy

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On July 28, 2009

Ross Douthat gets the ball rolling:These twists and turns make Iraq look less like either Vietnam or World War II — the analogies that politicians and pundits keep closest at.

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