We beg to differ.
Here we go again — the infamous “sick man of Asia” label. A throwback to the Marcos era is all “economist” Winnie Monsod could come up with in her Inquirer piece “Why we are again the sick man of Asia”. You would think that the Opposition would be creative enough to come up with a…
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You know the Opposition is in trouble when the President of the Liberal Party claims he is busy with his reelection campaign. Ana Marie Pamintuan in her PhilSTAR piece today “First, get out the vote” writes how “Sen. Francis Pangilinan has his mind on Sept. 30, 2021, the deadline for the registration of new voters.”…
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Dilawan Party is Doomed by its Genetic Predisposition for Divisive Politics Maraming nag-react at comment dun sa huling post ko tungkol sa inaasahang pagtakbo ni Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte bilang Pangulo sa 2022 at sa pag-angat ng mga local government executives bilang hanay na pinagkukunan ng posibleng kandidato sa mga pambansang elective positions….
It was then Col. Gringo Honasan who first shot to fame post-Marcos in 1986 because Lacson found himself on the wrong side of the political divide in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) during the coup d’etat against then President Ferdinand “Apo Lakay” Marcos. Lacson joined the Philippine Constabulary (PC) after graduation from the…
The US reopening is a gamble that probably won’t pay off — not with the Indian variant becoming the dominant one soon enough. For one, it’s been confirmed that the virus is airborne. Second vaccines don’t prevent infection but mitigate a severe case of infection leading to hospitalization or death. Business Insider reports on “The…
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We are under a fascist, authoritarian dictatorship. This is the impression you get after reading Boo Chanco’s PhilSTAR column “Hearts and minds” today. This is the second in a row about what the opposition must do in order to win in 2022. Chanco quotes from an article published by a millennial PhD candidate Cleve Arguelles:…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was known to common Filipinos when he made the announcement about a possible Presidential run back in 2016. His “speaking tour” about federalism was actually a listening tour. He wanted to get first-hand information on the people’s gripes. More important back then, the public had had it with then President Noynoy…
It was enough of an atrocity that the terrorist arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People’s Army (NPA), use landmines in the “revolution” they wage against the Filipino people. The, response from the CPP-NPA makes it worse. The tragedy in the unnecessary deaths of Far Easterner University (FEU) footballer Kieth…
