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SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar
SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar
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Why I am (still) a conservative
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 25, 2005 - 12:00am
(Conclusion) Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – US President Ronald...
Unfriendly fire
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - June 2, 2003 - 12:00am
The other Saturday, I attended an event in honor of the victims – numbering some 2,000 at last count – of the internal purges conducted by the CPP-NPA during the lost decade of the Eighties, in various...
The saving of a high school
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 28, 2003 - 12:00am
In 1916, only eight years after its own founding, the University of the Philippines decided to set up its own high school. Apart from providing secondary education, the UP High School carried a special mandate:to...
A fishy story
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 14, 2003 - 12:00am
DENR Secretary Bebet Gozun has run into her first political firestorm. Luckily for her, it really wasn’t a big conflagration – more like a brushfire or a kainginero’s first burn. But it illustrates...
Cell phone shoptalk in the Big Easy
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 7, 2003 - 12:00am
History tells us that the very first Filipino illegal immigrants in America or TNTs (tago nang tago) were not the hapless tourist visa overstayers of the present day, fleeing economic dead-ends or political persecution...
A coalition of the willing
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - March 31, 2003 - 12:00am
As I write this column from my brother’s house outside Philadelphia, Sunday the 23rd, the second Gulf War is already well underway. The coalition troops of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" are muscling their...
The (dim) pleasures of traveling
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - March 17, 2003 - 12:00am
I’ve always been a white-knuckles airline traveler. Actually, I wasn’t always this way. I remember my first extended business trip to the States, when I had to fly down from New York to Miami. I took one...
Tearing down the laundromat
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - March 10, 2003 - 12:00am
Last Tuesday, the Philippine STAR headlined the rejection by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of the watered-down anti-money laundering bill that our senators tried to foist off on a half-comprehending public....
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