We beg to differ.
I fail to see what PhilSTAR columnist Boo Chanco is talking about referring to widespread poverty and hunger as claimed in the surveys in his piece “COVID as 2022 kingmaker?”. The number of the homeless living on the streets isn’t out of the ordinary. They may be homeless but they don’t look like they’re on…
“Nabasa na kami hanggang tuhod. Wala ng atrasan to.” With this statement, Sen. Ping Lacson declared that there would be no turning back in his candidacy, and that of Senate President Tito Sotto, for President and Vice-President in the May 2022 election. Interviewed on HeadStart on ANC, the Lacson-Sotto tandem revealed that unification talks with…
Endings. The national artist for literature asks history’s unasked questions of what if’s in his piece “Conclusive endings When does a writer end a story or a novel?”. F. Sionil Jose writes of the importance of an author knowing when to stop in order for his story to not lose “its power to make the…
Why blame “trolls” only on the administration? The good versus evil narrative doesn’t sell anymore. The proof of the pudding is in the eating as the maxim goes. If Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte didn’t achieve anything in the last five years, do you think he would still be popular even with his vaunted “troll army?”…
To first give a bit of credit, blogger Katrina Stuart Santiago wields a pretty good portfolio of blog posts that lay out an intelligent critique of the state of the Philippine Opposition these days. In her particularly-cluey piece posted in March this year, she admits that, in this Game of Thrones that is Philippine politics,…
The public intellectuals who form part of the Opposition’s think-tank groups are so out of touch with reality. Even they aren’t aware of such a reality as evidenced by Inquirer columnist John Nery’s piece today “Warning: Trillanes”. Nery laments the “hysterical activism” of former Senator Antonio Trillanes that, he writes, is “undermining” both the leadership…
Joel Ruiz Butuyan asks a question in his Inquirer piece “Two worlds at war” to which he already knows the answer. He just doesn’t want to admit it. Butuyan writes about “the existence of two different worlds in our midst” that the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte supposedly “exposed”. Interestingly though, he highlights an important…
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The runup to the May 2022 elections has begun with political realignments taking place at a slower pace compared to the last cycle. This can be attributed to the preoccupation with coping with the pandemic and the fact that there is a vacuum in the political landscape due to a dearth of qualified candidates. It…
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