We beg to differ.
Fair-weather friendship is what PhilSTAR lifestyle writer Joel Pablo Salud exhibits in his recent Facebook post where, to highlight how close a friend he was to national artist F. Sionil Jose, writes about how he had “spent a night in his home in QC, tasted Tita Tessie’s cooking, and enjoyed untold number of hours listening…
The rift is real between the Davao Origs and Davao Mayor Inday Sara “Daughterte”. Reading her statement posted on Facebook, it looks like she will not run if her father President Rodrigo Duterte runs and she is not inclined to embrace Senator Bong Go to be her running mate either. Transcript of text captured from…
Kung ang nakikita niyo sa Facebook lang pagbabatayan niyo lang sa pagboto niyo sa 2022 ng mayor o vice mayor ng Quezon city, baka magkamali kayong iboto si Councilor Winnie Castelo. Ang mga manaka-nakang pagpapakitang gilas nito sa harap ng kamerang gamit sa Facebook videos at mga litrato ang nagtatago ng mga kahindik-hindik na mga…
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Evidently caught up in the past, John Nery waxes nostalgic in his Inquirer piece “The united opposition of … 1986”. Nery points out that the fragmented Opposition of that time managed to rally together at the eleventh hour to beat their bogeyman, then President Ferdinand Marcos. He writes wistfully, suggesting that his comrades must see…
The bigger news yesterday was Sen. Ping Lacson resigning as Vice-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Per the resignation letter he sent to Senate President Tito Sotto, he resigned because he wanted to have more time to scrutinize the proposed 2022 National Budget. Lacson has become the scourge of pork-loving legislators ever since he was…
To Sec. Art Tugade of the Dept. of Transportation: Magandang araw sa inyo mula sa isang biktima ng monopoliya sa TNVS na walang choice kungdi mag-Grab car at soon, wala na ring choice kungdi mag Grab Motorcycle Taxi. Bagamat napakaganda ng imahe po ninyo sa mga kaibigan ko sa Facebook at Youtube to the extent…
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The hashtag #NinoyIsNOTaHero trended yesterday on the 38th anniversary of his death at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. It is obvious that the Filipino people have had enough of that narrative. They have repudiated the proponents of such in 2016 with the loss of Mar Roxas to Rodrigo Duterte and again in 2019…
National artist F. Sionil Jose’s PhilSTAR piece today, “Remembering Ninoy”, best sums up Ninoy Aquino who, on this day in 1983, was assassinated. Jose recalls, “Immediately after EDSA I, Lt. Victor Corpuz saw me; he confirmed that Ninoy was really involved with the New People’s Army.” And so, to this very day we don’t know…