Posted in ASEAN, Liberty on March 8th, 2013 No Comments »
I have a fundamental objection to the Sulu and the Philippine claims of Sabah. Calling it the claim of Sabah is somewhat inaccurate because if the Philippine claim is wholly based on the Sulu claim, then by right the claim only covers roughly the eastern half of Sabah. Nevertheless, the objection that I have is [...]
Posted in Liberty on March 7th, 2013 No Comments »
Posted in ASEAN, Economics, Liberty on January 23rd, 2013 No Comments »
I have set a goal for myself. I want to travel more throughout Southeast Asia to learn about the region that I call home. So far, I have been to five Southeast Asian countries, including Malaysia. I have travelled across Cambodia and Indonesia for roughly a month in total last year alone. Part of the reason [...]
Posted in Liberty on July 4th, 2012 No Comments »
…that all Men are created equal…
Posted in Liberty, Poetry on April 5th, 2012 No Comments »
Dancing in the night, in that sexy tight, but watch out for the knights, because they’re uptight
Posted in Books & printed materials, Liberty, Society on March 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
Crowds of the inhabitants of the faubourgs in their Sunday clothes, sometimes even decked with fleurs-de-lis like the citizens, were scattered over the great square and the square Marigny, playing games and going around on wooden horses; others drinking; a few, printer apprentices, had on paper caps; their laughter resounded through the air. Everything was [...]
Posted in Liberty, Politics & government on December 3rd, 2011 1 Comment »
I had listened to Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Malaysia Day address with skepticism. Part of the skepticism came after noticing all the qualifications made by the prime minister in the same speech. The so-called Political Transformation Program does not look so bold if one reads the fine print. As we have learned in recent days, [...]
Posted in Liberty, Society on October 8th, 2011 2 Comments »
The return of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China was imminent. After years of a hands-free approach taken by the colonial government, the citizens of Hong Kong were used to a liberal atmosphere. The prospect of a continuous liberal environment after the 1997 handover was unclear however. The uncertainty convinced many to fear [...]
Posted in Liberty on October 5th, 2011 3 Comments »
In Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, which is kind of the ideological polar opposite of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, there is one particular argument that denies the legitimacy of private property in favor of public property. Bellamy believed that a person uses all of his or her knowledge and experience to produce a good [...]
Posted in Economics, Liberty, Politics & government on September 28th, 2011 No Comments »
Not all bailouts are the same. When a bailout socializes losses but privatizes gains, it can easily be judged through moral lens on top of existing economic reasoning. The interaction between government and the private entities is deplorable exactly because of lemon socialism. I find it harder to make a damning judgment when it is a [...]
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