Category: Politics

Filipino liberals presume to know better than people who choose NOT to be “victims”

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Filipino liberals presume to know better than people who choose NOT to be “victims”

He is not the president of Europeans or Americans. He is the president of the Filipino people. As such, Filipinos get to decide what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in their leader, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The trouble with the Philippine Opposition is that they have become comfy in their habit of preaching morality from…

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Politics, Religion

Ninoy Aquino is a “hero” – because Filipinos were told he was

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Ninoy Aquino is a “hero” – because Filipinos were told he was

Up until about a decade ago, asserting anything to the contrary was not only unheard of, not only frowned upon, but is simply not done in good company. It would get one ostracized, treated like a pariah, or worst, made out to be an ignorant idiot. In recent years, however, this assertion has become debatable….

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Politics, Society

Ninoy Aquino is a “hero” — because he died

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Ninoy Aquino is a “hero” — because he died

If death makes one a “hero” then every human being who’s ever lived may as well be called a “hero”. And yet, the simple fact that the late former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr ended up dead on the tarmac of the then-named Manila International Airport (MIA) in 1983 seems to be the biggest argument…

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Politics, Society

Did the COMELEC under Andy Bautista break its own shading threshold rule to help Robredo win the Vice Presidency?

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Did the COMELEC under Andy Bautista break its own shading threshold rule to help Robredo win the Vice Presidency?

For those who are not aware, there is an ongoing Vice Presidential vote recount in response to the electoral protest filed by former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in 2016. Yes, that is two years after the election was held. Due to the delay, some people most likely lost interest in following the issue closely….

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Politics

How the Ateneo plays Yellowtard “activist” to cover up its own “dark” past of support for the Marcos “regime”

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How the Ateneo plays Yellowtard “activist” to cover up its own “dark” past of support for the Marcos “regime”

Manila Times columnist Yen Makabenta today wrote a scathing article about his alma mater, the Ateneo de Manila University which today stands out amongst the elite Catholic private schools as a bastion of campus Yellowtardism. In What is more toxic than a crony? A crony school?, Makabenta laments how on the current “debate” over the recent ouster…

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Education, Politics

Newsflash: Filipinos are choosing LEGISLATORS in the coming 2019 elections

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Newsflash: Filipinos are choosing LEGISLATORS in the coming 2019 elections

That’s right. Congress, after all, is a government branch whose primary role in government is to craft laws. As such, the important question Filipinos need to ask of their candidates in the coming 2019 elections is this: What is your legislative agenda? And that is the easy bit. The harder follow-up to this question (assuming…

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Politics

Don’t be quick to imagine parallels between Najib “ouster” in Malaysia and the 1986 “people power revolution”

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Don’t be quick to imagine parallels between Najib “ouster” in Malaysia and the 1986 “people power revolution”

True to form in the way Filipinos imagine themselves to be the inventors of “peaceful change in leadership”, we see the Inquirer editor, in that familiar tradition of Filipino self-aggrandisement, insert the “Filipino experience” into Malaysian current events. Today’s Inquirer Op-Ed peace is given the title “The Marcoses of Malaysia”. Not surprisingly, practically the entire…

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Government, Politics

The intellectual bankruptcy of a Philippine Opposition under Yellowtard leadership

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The intellectual bankruptcy of a Philippine Opposition under Yellowtard leadership

Another “hero” of the Philippine Opposition in the guise of never-had-been-chief-justice Lourdes Sereno has fallen. She follows others who waged hollow-headed and intellectually-insulting personal “wars” against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Like those who had fallen before her, Sereno’s biggest mistake was to presume to think that God was on her side. Indeed,…

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Politics, Religion