A message to Fil-Am voters: Go back to basics
By: Anj Cab Each election season reveals not only the character of the candidates, but the values of every voter as well. Regardless of one’s race or religion, what can…
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Poll insights: Fil-Ams may prefer Republicans in Senate races & be split in House races, but stand with Democrats on issues
KABABAYANS from both sides of the aisle expressed strong sentiments, questioning the results of the 2018 Asian American Voter Survey by the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Vote, which…
Is Harvard University’s affirmative action policy biased against AAPI students?
By Chris Lu WITH the end of summer, college students have now returned to campuses around the country, and high school seniors are beginning the dreaded process of college applications….
Poll: Asian Americans overall prefer the Democratic party in the Senate race, while Fil-Ams favor the party of Trump
Views split for the House THE November 6 midterm elections are just three weeks away but many Americans have already cast their votes through early voting and mail-in ballots. Asian…
Give the power back to ‘we the people’: Go out and vote in the November 6 midterm elections
The confirmation process of Justice Brett Kavanaugh just all the more highlighted how divided and angry this nation has been, especially in the last two years. If you are happy…
2,400+ law professors, retired SC judge to senators: No to Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court
HISTORIC final Senate vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is happening today, Saturday, October 6. This follows a less than a week of supplemental…
No to Kavanaugh Supreme Court Justice nomination: Let me count the why’s
President Donald Trump is right. The recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing involving his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — accused of sexual assault that allegedly happened in the 1980s by…
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh vs Dr. Christine Blasey Ford: Who would you believe?
BRETT Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Justice of the Supreme Court thought he would get the affirmative votes to be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on…
Confirming SC nominee Brett Kavanaugh: Do or die for Trump and the GOP’s political survival
LESS than six weeks before the consequential midterm elections, President Donald Trump and the members of the Republican Party are urgently scrambling, moving heaven and earth to confirm Trump’s nominee…
Admiral John McCain and the unprecedented PH Dollar Remittance Program (Part 3)
(Part 3 of 3) AFTER the session, Calalang and Benedicto remarked: “Had the Dollar Plan been devised and implemented since 1946, there would have been no need in the past…
Happiness is a Filipino
With all of the bad news coming out of Manila, like typhoons, runaway inflation and Duterte lawyer Salvador Panelo, I felt a need to inject some happy thoughts into the…
Admiral John McCain and the unprecedented PH Dollar Remittance Program (Part 2)
(Part 2 of 3) Our original plan anticipated the exponential growth of the job market and the dollar remittances from overseas Filipinos. We tinkered with the formula and expanded its…
Go home and plant camote
In grade school in Tacloban, Leyte, what we pupils dreaded most was to be told by the teachers, “Bobo…better go home and plant camote!” I guess that served to create…
Admiral John McCain and the unprecedented PH Dollar Remittance Program
(Part 1 of 3) We were out of town on speaking engagements and attending meetings in the Middle East, South Asia, and last week in Seoul when the bemedalled and…
His loyalty to party ended where loyalty to country began
In death Sen. John McCain was honored by colleagues whom he disagreed with, even fought with and who considered him a disloyal maverick during his long tenure as a politician….
FVR’S enduring love for Ming
When one talks about enduring love, one love song easily comes to mind and it’s Crystal Gale’s “A Long and Lasting Love.” Here are some enchanting lines of Gale’s song:…
You seldom suffer alone
IF anyone were to tell a foreigner that the Philippines is a poor country and Filipinos can hardly afford three meals a day, he’d never believe it if he were…
Witnessing the passion and excitement from the AAPI candidate forum in Vegas: Let our voices be heard in the general election
ON Tuesday, August 28, 2018, members of the AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) community in Las Vegas were given the opportunity to interact with our congressional, state, and local candidates…
McCain and Trump: A study in contrast between true and faux leaders
AMERICA mourns the passing of Senator John McCain — war hero, six-term senator, a true statesman, patriot and public servant. Amid all the tributes to McCain’s heroism and dedicated service…
Trump intensifies rhetoric demonizing undocumented immigrants with the murder of Mollie Tibbetts: How this affects us all — with or without “papeles”
WHAT happened to 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts —a beautiful college student from Iowa who was killed by multiple sharp force injuries by an undocumented immigrant when she was on her usual…
Filipinos on cruise ships
On a visit to Baguio a few months ago, the hotel we stayed at had several young people working at the front desk, in the restaurant, and as bellhops. What…
Is Assemblymember Phil Ting only for the crazy rich Asians, or will he fight for the crazy poor ones, too?
Last week, the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” opened in theaters nationwide to long lines and critical acclaim, especially here in Daly City, California, where a lot of Asians reside. Of…
As an Asian American supporter of Senator Dean Heller and President Donald Trump
The 2018 midterm election is less than 100 days away, and Nevada’s Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community needs to quickly come together to support and vote for Dean Heller…
Trump implicated in open court as a co-conspirator in campaign finance violations to influence the 2016 presidential election
UNDER OATH, President Donald Trump’s fixer and long-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen surrendered to the FBI and pleaded guilty to eight counts related to tax fraud, excessive campaign contributions, making…
More American officials, institutions and citizens are rebuking Trump for silencing dissent and stifling freedom of speech
STOP. THINK. UNDERSTAND the significance of this issue. There is a pattern here. And it involves YOU and your family. It is so consequential to the future of the United…
The problem with federalism: It’s the politicians, stupid!
If the structure of the Philippine government is supposed to have been patterned after that of the United States, why wasn’t the federal system of America also applied to the…
Victory in Cambodia polls and need for unity gov’t, 4 premiers unite in Nepal, middle class Filipinos in US (Part II)
(Part 2 of 2) Two months earlier we had visited Tehran, and we raised the chances of perhaps an almost impossible dream: we said Allah could certainly bless a dream…
If you support Trump because of illegal immigration and think he will protect you because you came here with ‘papeles,’ think again
MANY KABABAYANS who voted for President Donald Trump tell me that they support him because they believe in his fight against undocumented immigrants. These Filipinos lament that they followed the…
How two presidents handle accusations
Presidents Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte have both been accused of criminal behavior, the former for allegedly obstructing justice and colluding with a foreign arch enemy, and the latter for…
The Founding Fathers must have thought of the likes of Trump, Giuliani and their cohorts when they drafted the US Constitution
THE FOUNDING FATHERS of the United States of America truly had foresight when they structured the democratic government of the United States and wrote the U.S. Constitution in 1787 to…