I’m trying hard to give a damn

Khairie Hisyam Aliman, Malay Mail Online I have (or had) a dirty little secret: For most of my life, I did not follow any politics whatsoever. It’s hard to get interested growing up. I was…

Racial equality

Mahathir Mohamad, Malay Mail Online 1. Foreign Affairs is an American magazine. It is highly respected in America but it is not my favourite magazine. 2. Recently while flying I came across…

He’s not Bond, more like M, Dr M

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad does not like to lose but it looks like he is losing in the fight to take down Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak because Umno wants to give the Prime Minister time to sort out the…

DAP and the west coast plan, part 2

Raggie Jessy So, Pakatan Rakyat has finally gone belly-up. Regardless what any Tom, Dick or Harry might tell you, the coalition has fallen apart at the seams and is presumed dead. Even the…

Scam after scam after scam

Salleh Said Keruak Pakatan Rakyat is guaranteed of forming the new federal government on 16th September 2008 because 30 Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament are going to cross over on that…

A message to the Lims

Zaid Ibrahim I could have picked up the phone to call DAP leaders Sdr Lim Kit Siang and Sdr Lim Guan Eng—and I am sure they would have entertained my call but what I have to say is rather…

1MDB: Najib’s Mission Impossible

In fact, you may have a better chance trying to convince people that Christianity does not exist than trying to convince people that there is nothing wrong with 1MDB. NO HOLDS BARRED Raja…

One myth about Chinese Malaysians

KTemoc Konsiders I was discussing the NEP (via comments) with some visitors at RPK's Malaysia-Today. But let's leave the NEP aside for another day. In this post I just want to comment on an…

The untouchable Dr M

(MMO) - Why cannot the IGP, through one of his now infamous tweets, order the same treatment as has been dished out to dozens of activists, Opposition politicians and the nine times seditious…

PR Flip Flop Needs to Stop

Selangor was not entrusted over to DAP or PAS or PKR alone; it was entrusted collectively to all three parties. A break up equates to all three component parties betraying their collective…

Najib…listen, listen, listen

You need to decide which 125 seats you want to keep and go all out to keep them. Let your enemies and the opposition say what they want. Let them scream, rant, rave and foam at the mouth. You just…

DAP and the west coast plan (part 1)

The purported declarations by 29 assemblypersons said to favour Wan Azizah for the post of Menteri Besar couldn’t possibly have been construed as an edict worthy for consideration by the Sultan,…

Dr Mahathir says it all

Salleh Said Keruak This was what Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said in his SCMP interview with Chris Wright -- and that more or less sums up what the man is all about whom Musa Hitam said suffers…

OPEN LETTER TO BLOOMBERG

When I read William Pesek’s latest commentary on Bloomberg View, I barely recognised the country he was writing about. He starts by referring to Malaysia’s “underlying economic distress” and…

How DAP is going to kill Azmin

So DAP is far smarter than most of you give them credit for. What they want is to kill Azmin. But they cannot admit this. So instead they raise the issue of Hudud and blame Hadi for the breakup of…

Well, is God punishing Malaysia?

Then what happened to the Pharaoh and Egypt would not happen to Malaysia and we can, as the Chinese would say, buang swei, and end all the bad luck that Malaysia is facing. NO HOLDS BARRED…