We beg to differ.
I draw the line at certain dirty political tactics and one of the nastiest ones is creating an artificial crisis so that a politician can take credit for “saving” people from it. One such case of which recently crawled across my Facebook newsfeed and it was a post where Camarines Sur (Camsur) Governor Migz Villafuerte…
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The bad news just keeps on coming for the Philippine Opposition. It has not been a good year for them. In fact, things haven’t been good for them since President Rodrigo Duterte won the election in 2016. Members of the Opposition particularly those allied with the Liberal Party have tried every trick in the book…
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A friend in law enforcement says the Duterte Administration’s war on illegal drugs has caused a number of areas in the country to experience a violent sort of dope sickness. Unlike the kind of dope sickness that drug addicts go through when they are starved of their drug of choice, the dope sickness he refers…
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Whatever is said about the manner with which Mocha Uson is pitching “federalism” to the Filipino public, her followers need to be more circumspect in the way they consume what is being fed to them. Being a fan of Mocha Uson is one thing, and fan behaviour is understandable with regard to the bulk of…
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There has been much to discuss recently on the topic of “right to life” – whether having a beating heart is a basic right or a privilege. Now let’s dive into other so-called “rights” that Filipinos value. First off, let’s qualify the terms used in this article: Right / basic right – a fundamental moral…
Yellow journalists and their hao shao counterparts prematurely lit their torches and picked up their bolos to denounce the Duterte Administration for what they claimed to be an attack on the freedom of speech. Jolted by Sunstar Baguio’s “kuryente” story which claimed that the Presidential Task Force On Media Security (PTFOMS) was planning to regulate…
Over the past few days I’ve seen people on my Facebook newsfeed spreading the disinformation that the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) has a budget of P1.3 billion and in their demonstrably ignorant view, they say that the government agency was barely making any noticeable headway in communicating the gains of the Duterte administration. The…
After all, many Filipinos regret demanding — and gaining — independence from the United States back in 1946. Now they live with the reality that had eventuated from the prescience of the late Manuel L. Quezon, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth when he said: “I would rather have a Philippines run like hell by…
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