Month: December 2010

Truth Commission: another â€œinitiativeâ€ killed by Malacanang incompetence

December 7, 2010 benign0 26 Comments

Filipinos are a people who found nothing wrong with subverting due process to extraconstitutionally remove former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada from office back in 2000 and even deferring to a Supreme Court Justice to “swear” in a new “president” who happened to be none other than now former President and House Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Ironic,…

Government

P-Noy’s popularity hides his lack of substance

December 3, 2010November 4, 2016 Ilda 117 Comments

Something really weird is happening in the Philippines. For one thing, the result of the latest approval rating conducted by Social Weather Station (SWS) revealed that the Aquino administration has reached a record high. According to presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda “73 percent of respondents said they approve of the Aquino administration’s performance“. It would have…

Development, Education, Featured, Government

The CBCP and its primitivist crusade against reproductive health

December 1, 2010 benign0 66 Comments

According to Fr. Melvin Castro, executive director of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, “the Church needs to intensify its information drive on the [Reproductive Health] bill”. This is his “solution” to bolster the Church’s primitivist position on reproductive health in the face of mounting evidence…

Development, Education, Lifestyle, Religion