We beg to differ.
The administration has again come under fire from the Opposition for its pandemic response. Just when you think they had it down pat, they didn’t. Again. The country was the last in the region to experience a Delta-induced surge and so we’re also leading in the number of daily cases again. The past three days…
The traditional sins of omission of Senate investigations “in aid of legislation” are on exhibit again this being the an election year. Politics is tough in the Philippines. It’s tough everywhere but it’s tougher here because there is no such thing as a principled stand. It is mostly the business of show as an entertainer…
Leadership has a pro-forma definition but for one to be called a leader, in the true sense of the word, one has to prove himself or herself first. Former President Cory Aquino was a leader. Look at her record during her tenure. Could that be described as effective leadership? Fidel Ramos followed suit. His much-bruited…
The US not only abandoned Afghans in general but also exposed those who worked with them to the danger of reprisal and execution by the Taliban government. It did not bother to destroy the database containing sensitive information about Afghan Army regulars and members of the national police, not to mention ordinary citizens whose files…
SBG. Senator Bong Go. The presidential aide who was basically chief of staff/executive assistant to the Mayor, Rodrigo Duterte, became the second most powerful man in the country after his principal won the Presidency in 2016. Aides have a long history of being equally or more powerful than their principals because they are the gatekeepers….
The brouhaha at the Department of Budget Management (DBM) caused by Senator Bong Go’s protégé Christopher Lao, former Undersecretary at the Presidential Management Staff–Office of the Special Assistant to the President, has brought to fore the issue of how political patronage and the bureaucracy contribute to the culture of corruption in government. It’s not wise…
Who is really politicking? The administration or the Opposition? Professor Randy David writes in his Inquirer piece “Politicking in the midst of a pandemic” of President Rodrigo Duterte’s address to the nation the other night saying that it is “insensitive, it is irresponsible, it is disheartening—and it leaves one wondering if the country’s highest public…
Kung ang nakikita niyo sa Facebook lang pagbabatayan niyo lang sa pagboto niyo sa 2022 ng mayor o vice mayor ng Quezon city, baka magkamali kayong iboto si Councilor Winnie Castelo. Ang mga manaka-nakang pagpapakitang gilas nito sa harap ng kamerang gamit sa Facebook videos at mga litrato ang nagtatago ng mga kahindik-hindik na mga…
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