The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

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The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

In her Inquirer piece “UP Diliman’s top-down leadership” today, columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon laments how “outside observers” are wont to “dismiss” the “passionate, sometimes chaotic expressions of [University of the Philippines (UP)] Diliman students, faculty, and staff” as “disrespectful behavior (or worse, to Red-tag them)”. She then goes on to suggest that members of this…

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Education, Media

UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

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UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

Want to be a true rules-based society? Then it is clear what should be done to those students of the University of the Philippines (UP) who, while protesting (or, rather, throwing a really bad temper tantrum) over the decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) to select UP College of Law dean Edgardo Carlo…

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Crime, Education

Should we continue to write about Leni Robredo even after she was buried in the the 2022 elections?

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Should we continue to write about Leni Robredo even after she was buried in the the 2022 elections?

Absolutely. Leni Robredo was leader of the Philippines Opposition since 2016 after her pal Mar Roxas was crushed by Rodrigo Duterte in the 2016 presidential elections. She continued to remain in Opposition campaign mode even as “vice president” from 2016 through 2022 going as far as slinging mud at the government she was part of…

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Politics

Why is Leni Robredo still in the news? Because the Philippine Opposition can’t attract REAL political talent.

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Why is Leni Robredo still in the news? Because the Philippine Opposition can’t attract REAL political talent.

Opposition “thought leaders” decry what they perceive to be a continued haranguing of “former vice president” Leni Robredo. Robredo, we recall “led” the Philippine Opposition to a crushing defeat in the 2022 presidential elections — an election that the Opposition deemed too important to lose. In actual practice, they did not seem to have considered…

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Media, Politics

Paid menstrual leave: Labour “activists” and their legislators need to tread cautiously in today’s employers’ market

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Paid menstrual leave: Labour “activists” and their legislators need to tread cautiously in today’s employers’ market

No need to get into the pros and cons about the proposed menstrual leave legislation being pushed by “women’s issues” group GABRIELA. We’ve heard from the feminists and toxic males like Ping Lacson and every other voice in between those ends of this bipolar “debate”. We are also pretty well aware of the employers’ side…

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Economy, Society

Is there still hope of turning the Tagalog dialect into a modern intellectual medium of communication?

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Is there still hope of turning the Tagalog dialect into a modern intellectual medium of communication?

Back in the old days, televised news reporting used to be mostly done in English. The EDSA “revolution” changed all that. Practically overnight, Tagalog news shows such as pioneer shock “news” caster Noli de Castro’s TV Patrol turned what was once a public service into mass entertainment. Key to this was the pivoting of telejournalism…

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Culture, Development, Education

Another Yellowtard social media “activist” @MiaMagdalena sued for allegedly committing SLANDER!

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Another Yellowtard social media “activist” @MiaMagdalena sued for allegedly committing SLANDER!

Yellowtard social media personality Mia Magdalena F. Longid is the most recent of a series of Opposition “online activists” to find themselves in hot water over an ill-thought-out post on the Net. Preceding her over just the last several weeks is a small (more like the tip of the proverbial iceberg) virtual Hall of Yellowtard…

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Crime, Society