The populists and the guardians of ‘decency’
There’s a common trait shared by some of the critics of US president Donald Trump and Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte that drives even the most rational supporters of both presidents …
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Does President Rodrigo Duterte command an ‘Internet army’?
According to some pundits, President Rodrigo Duterte is waging not just a “war on drugs” in the streets of major Philippine cities. He is, they insist, also waging a war …
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COMELEC SOCE Debacle: ‘Sovereign will of the people’ is NOT a valid argument @commrguanzon!
There is something fundamentally wrong about Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon’s defense of the decision of the COMELEC en banc to bend election rules to accomodate the Liberal …
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Electoral fraud activist Antonio Contreras to sue UP professor Ian Vega for libel!
In a post on Facebook today De La Salle University (DLSU) professor Antonio Contreras announced his intent to sue University of the Philippines (UP) physics professor Ian Vega for libel. …
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The Rodrigo Duterte presidency could be besieged by a hostile Congress and power-hungry Leni Robredo!
President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte won by a landslide in this year’s elections. Most remarkable of all, he won it being true to and consistent with his nature. What we saw in …
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Did Smartmatic help the Liberal Party rig the 2016 Philippine Presidential Elections?
Who would have thought that the late former ambassador Roy Señeres, who withdrew from the presidential race shortly before his death last February would affect the Presidential Elections conducted on …
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Scholarly study reveals Ateneans are the real ‘bobotantes’ of the Philippine electorate
A study conducted by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) on the bobotante (stupid voter) phenomenon that plagues Philippine politics sought to test a hypothesis commonly-held amongst the Philippines’ “thinking …
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