Alarm about Muslim immigrants sounds familiar (The Sacramento Bee)

The reports, according to CNS, the conservative Cybercast News Service, came from border county Texas sheriffs: “Arabic-speaking individuals are learning Spanish and integrating into Mexican culture before paying smugglers to sneak them into the United States. “Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County told Cybercast News Service that Iranian currency, military badges in Arabic and other items…

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Quirino House, aka Syquia Mansion-the original Malacanang of the North (Philippines Daily Inquirer)

TODAY is the 125th birth anniversary of Elpidio Quirino. But who among the millennials knows about him now? Indeed, who heard of that name except Quirino province, Quirino Avenue and Quirino Grandstand? Quirino was Manuel Quezon’s secretary of finance and of interior, Senate president during Sergio Osmena’s administration, Manuel Roxas’ vice president, before becoming the country’s…

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