Politics and the Fear Factor
Machiavelli's treatise, “The Prince” is known for its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and for its abandonment of conventional morality. According to Machiavelli, it was always better to be feared. He also insisted if an end justified the means, then it was okay to do whatever was necessary to achieve those goals....
If You Can Pay, You Can Afford It
Everybody knows about the $8 bill Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan paid for his surgical bypass. What we don't know is whether he had lobotomy done on the side to take advantage of the special rates he seems to enjoy. How else to account for his comment on the report that the average bill for a subsidised C-class patient has almost...
Mr Mah Bao Tan, the housing and property guru
Mah Bao Tan Firstly I would like to thank Mr Mah Bow Tan for advising Singaporeans to wait a little as the property prices are going to drop “Housing prices are rather high now... if you wait for a while, you might find more affordable properties”,' Mr Mah was quoted in the paper as saying. Its words like his that we need...
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