Legislators are expected to be busy in the next two weeks tackling the issue of whether taxes on so-called “sin” products such as cigarettes and liquor are high enough to discourage smoking and drinking, but at the same time not kill the industries behind them, to allow the government to get funding for its health care program. Sen. Sonny Angara earlier noted that Congress could still raise levies on “sin” products before the current 17th Congress
Fifteen years ago, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, with the release of a CD full of images of prisoner abuse being committed in this US detention facility in Iraq. The CD included shots of nude male detainees, female detainees exposing themselves to guards, and detainees performing sexual acts on
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