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Tall Tales
By Robert "Bob" Klitzkie
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Nov 25
Letter to the editor: No denial of rights; 'The machine just isn’t built that way'
Complaining about “fundamental rights” and not being able to vote if you live here is like complaining to Harley Davidson that you can’t ri
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Nov 4, 2022
Crime doesn’t pay but bad behavior does
Two hundred grand is a lot of money. Rory Respicio, general manager of the Port Authority of Guam, will be forking over that sum to Frank...
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Sep 7, 2022
Render unto Caesar…
Jayne Flores, the director of the so called Bureau of Women’s Affairs, is all in for abortion but opposed to the doctrine of separation...
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Aug 5, 2022
What Leevin could have done
Attorney General Leevin Camacho marshaled enough judicial authority to employ the magic words, “void ab initio,” to deep-six PL 20-134,...
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Jul 10, 2022
Leaked! SCOTUS draft overruling the Insular Cases (April 1, 2023*)
PER CURIUM: In the flagship of the Insular Cases, Downes v. Bidwell, we held: “We are therefore of opinion that the island of Porto Rico...
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Jun 5, 2022
No, we didn’t get screwed out of SSI by the Supreme Court
In United States v. Vaello Madero, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a person living in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, was ineligible for...
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May 4, 2022
A fairytale about rugby and The Wokesters
Once upon a time a very special place called “Childhood” was inhabited by people called boys and girls. The people of Childhood played a...
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Apr 3, 2022
The horse whisperer, or rather the Wolff whisperer
Robert Redford starred in the eponymous 1998 film “The Horse Whisperer,” in which he played the title character. Guam doesn’t have a...
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Mar 3, 2022
Bro, Sunshine is the best disinfectant
“Bro, we will be having a motion hearing before the OPA on Dec 27th. Last day to file documents is on Dec 23. Would it be possible for...
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Feb 8, 2022
A 174-page ‘lawsuit’—cui bono?
What happens when the governor delegates authority to her consigliere, i.e., her legal advisor and son-in-law, to cut a deal with a hotel...
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Jan 7, 2022
Contriving a status option
In an earlier column, I answered the question, “Who’s working to decolonize Guam?” Nobody! No one is working to decolonize Guam. What...
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Dec 8, 2021
Everything you wanted to know about the papier-mâché commission but didn’t know whom to ask
Papier-mâché is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such...
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Nov 10, 2021
The papier-mâché commission
Is the Commission on Decolonization for the Implementation and Exercise of Chamorro Self-Determination really necessary? That's the...
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Oct 3, 2021
Who’s working to decolonize the island? Nobody
The so-called Commission on Decolonization is not striving to decolonize Guam. The commission’s statutory name under 1 GCA Ch. 21 is...
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Sep 6, 2021
The doctrine is on our side
There are people living here who have never paid a nickel’s worth of taxes to the IRS. If they die rich, their heirs won’t owe federal...
By Robert "Bob" Klietzkie
Aug 7, 2021
The Barnes 8, Resolution 56 and the IRS
Vice Speaker Tina Muna Barnes and seven senators, Frank Blas Jr., Sabina Perez, Clynt Ridgell, Joe San Agustin, Amanda Shelton, José...
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