We beg to differ.
A few days ago I came across a news article saying that the government is mulling higher taxes on soft drinks. This isn’t new as increases in levies on soft drinks have been brought out for discussion and proposed in the past. The motivation for increasing the tax on soft drinks was tied up to…
We all want change and change has to start from within one’s self and from the basic unit of society. My parents  made me feel, that I can be somebody great without compromising discipline during the stage where practical reasoning is best developed. So remarkable are the developmental years of a child at the ages…
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Flawed in its execution or not, Malacañang had come out locked and loaded when it ordered Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia suspended for alleged “grave abuse of authority” on the 19th December 2012. Yet ten days later, what could’ve been a clean strike has turned into a quagmire. What’s the big delay anyway? If the government…
Everyone is busy today celebrating the enactment of the Philippines’ landmark population control law — Republic Act 10354 or the “Reproductive Health” Law. Finally we can see a future where the country’s meager economic output need be shared by (hopefully) a shrinking pool of people. But just a few hundred miles away in the tony…
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Get Real Philippines has always seen poverty as one of the biggest problems of the country. That’s why we would usually recoil when someone says poverty is not a problem. Well, at least I did. Bishop Gilbert Garcera of the archdiocese of Daet made a statement to oppose the recently signed Reproductive Health or RH…
“Space… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before.†To all you Trekkies out there (oh c’mon… admit it) ever wonder what Captain James T. Kirk…
Make no mistake, the passing in Congress today of House Bill 4244 also known as the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill is foremost a triumph for long-overdue population control in the Philippines. The country’s enormous population and its continued unabated growth has long been considered the single biggest roadblock to prosperity in this impoverished nation. Indeed,…
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The following is a copy of House Bill 4244 also known as the ‘Reproductive Health Bill’ in the form as approved on Second Reading by the Philippine House of Representatives 12th Dec 2012. This is optimised for reading on the Web and is based on a PDF document made available on the ABS-CBN News website….