We beg to differ.
It is clearly evident now that the Opposition led by the Yellowtards (the bloc within it rabidly loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) and their lackeys in Big Corporate Media have been taken for a ride by the camp of incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte. Months of seeming “chaos” within their loose community of family and party…
The inability of the best minds of the Philippine Opposition to unite various partisan camps that would like to see the end of the Duterte dynasty’s reign over national politics will be the subject of debate among historians in the years to come. At present, the Opposition is hopelessly fragmented into feuding chieftains, each with…
I really find it revolting how the opposition can use the name of the Lord God in vain for the sake of politics. In his PhilSTAR piece “Getting what we deserve?” today, columnist Boo Chanco suggests that “maybe God is using Duterte not only to punish us, but also to make us realize there is…
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Two surveys were released yesterday. Pulse Asia and DigiVoice. One had Sara Duterte as the leading choice for President while the other had Isko Moreno. Cognitive bias is real. This is your natural predisposition for the candidate of your choice which is devoid of logical basis. Each person applies their own unique cognitive bias to…
The Pasig River Expressway has broken ground and the project has begun in earnest even with the growing opposition to it. The initial furor was over the design that the whole river would be covered by the length of the expressway which runs from east to west from Manila Bay to Laguna De Bay. As…
One of the items on Rodrigo Duterte’s platform of government in 2016 was federalism. This has remained unfulfilled largely due to the Senate being the stumbling block to constitutional amendments. The 1987 Constitution doesn’t state explicitly of both houses of Congress voting as one or both, with a 3/4 majority is required to deem an…
Joel Ruiz Butuyan in his Inquirer piece “The defeat of the trolls” writes of “strong suspicion that the current government employs so-called troll farms.” The ongoing Senate investigation has uncovered that the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) pays 1,479 “contract of service employees.” There’s a strong feeling that these are trolls hired by the government,…
Manny Pacquiao’s rise to boxing superstardom was unprecedented for a Filipino. His is the original narrative of what is literally a rags-to-riches story starting in the provincial hinterland and ending up in the big city looking for his future. Now, Pacquiao is up for the biggest match of his life after declaring he is running…