Category: Politics

Ever since he became president, PNoy’s Decembers have been “in the red”

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Let’s cut to the chase since the Christmas holidays are upon us, after all: Has anyone noticed that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III (BS Aquino) has been “seeing red” every December since his presidency started? 2010: Noynoy’s beloved Truth Commission got shot down due to unconstitutionality 2011: Noynoy lambasts former CJ Corona at the National…

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Government, Politics

I slap, I squat, we rule (it is not your fiefdom, it is our country)

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I slap, I squat, we rule (it is not your fiefdom, it is our country)

We all have to remember that in a democracy, we still adhere to the rule of law and the mandate given by the people; or emanating from the people. There is the Constitution which was enshrined through the people’s mandate. There is the highest elective officer in the land, elected by all registered voters (flying,…

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Government, Politics, Society

Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia in showdown with Aquino government

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Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia in showdown with Aquino government

What is happening in Cebu? Apparently there is some sort of a lockdown going on complete with riot police and wire barricades in front of the governor’s office. Cebu governor Gwendolyn Garcia has locked herself in her office and been there for a few days now in defiance of the suspension order served to her…

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Government, Politics, Society

Occupy the sidewalk

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Occupy the sidewalk

Sidewalk vendors have always been a site to behold in the panorama of Philippine society. Although we cannot claim that this phenomenon is endemic or indigenous to Filipino culture and society, the persona of the sidewalk vendor is omnipresent within and in the very fabric of Filipino society. We see these sidewalk vendors along the…

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Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

Teach me how to fish…not to dougie

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Teach me how to fish…not to dougie

First he called it a “pro-poor budget”; now he calls it an “empowering national budget”. Read in the papers that the President calls the PhP2.006 trillion national budget “…an instrument to give the common man the power to control and improve his life…” I find three items in the General Appropriations Act of 2013 that…

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Malacañang gets the RH Bill passed, but do the ends justify the means?

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Malacañang gets the RH Bill passed, but do the ends justify the means?

The Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill) was passed on Monday, December 17, in both houses of Congress here in the Philippines on the third and final reading. All it takes now for it to become an official law is for President Aquino to sign it and voila, we have the “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health…

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Government, Politics, Religion

Not the end of the world as we know it

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Not the end of the world as we know it

The passage of Senate Bill No. 2865 and House Bill House Bill No. 4244 is not something the Philippine Roman Catholic body, both the Church and its people, should be afraid of. It is not “doomsday” nor “Armageddon” nor the day when evil triumphed over good, as what some hard-core and traditional Catholic thinkers in…

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Next bomb to drop on the Catholic Taliban: HB 1799 proposing enactment of Divorce law in the Philippines

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Next bomb to drop on the Catholic Taliban: HB 1799 proposing enactment of Divorce law in the Philippines

It is heartening to note that the Philippines’ esteemed men-in-robes have come out and reportedly stated that they consider themselves to be “at war”. I have long asserted that there is, in fact, such a war in the Philippines, between the forces of progress and the forces of primitivism. In the aftermath of the passing…

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