We beg to differ.
It is the Opposition that has been causing the distraction from Day One of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and not, as Boo Chanco asserts in his PhilSTAR column “Distracted leadership”, the president. According to Chanco, “Duterte has always been distracted since the start of his term. There has been little decent policymaking on…
So butthurt are the Yellowtards over Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview that they’d come up with the dumbest logic in their lame attempts to cancel her. Most recent is this ululation coming from ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) anchor Christian Esguerra. According to Esguerra a “bad” journalist is one who makes her interview subject “happy”. It…
This is an excellent proposal by one of the few objective academicians of the University of the Philippines, retired political science professor Clarita Carlos. On a Facebook post, she articulates her idea of convening a team of scholars to mount a “scientific” evaluation of the 21 years that Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines… Quite troubling…
Is the Ateneo de Manila Martial Law Museum so sacred as to be above any challenge to its legitimacy as an authority on what really happened over the period the late Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines? Apparently so. In a tweet issued today, Manila Times columnist and former ambassador Bobi Tiglao, revealed that…
I can’t think of the right words to describe this Tweet of blogger and “social media expert” Jane Uymatiao a.k.a. “Citizen Jane” a.k.a. “The Philippine Beat”. She suggests that anyone with a fancy car who runs a business and deals with the government is stealing Filipino taxpayers’ money. Those are serious allegations you are making…
Those who don’t read history, are condemned to repeat it. This is the curse bedeviling the Philippines. Historical revisionism. It wasn’t until Teodoro Agoncillo wrote the History of the Filipino People did we become aware of the betrayals of the leaders of the Philippine Revolution. Emilio Aguinaldo ordering the murder of Andres Bonifacio and Antonio…
How many times do you need to hit these “journalists” for them to realize that Toni Gonzaga is not a “journalist” who is supposed to ask Bongbong Marcos (BBM) the tough questions? In his PhilSTAR piece “Walking on landmines: Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview”, Joel Pablo Salud admits that Gonzaga, while not a journalist, but…
While the public was engrossed with the ongoing feud between President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Dick Gordon, the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chair, who is investigating the questionable purchases of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and face masks by the Department of Budget Management (DBM) Procurement Service for the Department of Health (DOH), the Nationalist People’s…