Majority is not morality. Democracy has its benefits, but it is a far from perfect system — look at capital punishment (state murder) and immigration laws (state prevents me from selling my property to whom I want and refuses people in desperate situations an alternative home), among other things.
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Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago: Top 10 Mad Moments Caught on Cam
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago has definitely changed the vibe of Chief Justice Renato Corona’s impeachment trial “from convalescent home to Roman orgy.” That is, an orgy of diatribes. She has been quick to dress down anyone whom she thinks is unprepared or is wasting time (hers and the world in general). But her most recent “favorites” can take comfort in the fact that they’re not the only ones who have experienced Santiago’s wrath. She’s been verbally annihilating people on camera for years.
SPOT.ph compiled 10 of the formidable senator’s best loved, caught-on-cam mad moments from the present and from way back. Click here to read more.
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Photo of the Day: Members of the Polish opposition party Palikot’s Movement held up Guy Fawkes masks in the Sejm today to protest their government’s recent passage of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
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From The Archives: A 29-year-old Barack Obama, then Harvard Law Review’s first African-American president, remembers civil rights pioneer Charles Hamilton Houston — “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow” — in this Black History Month PSA, which aired on TBS in 1991.
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