Is Panelo Now Diokno’s Spokesman or Is Diokno Now The President?
This ongoing word war over the 2019 national budget seems to have gotten out of hand and by the looks of it, it is no longer the House of Representatives …
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Don’t thank PNoy: Economic growth does not necessarily mean good governance!
Lately I’ve been seeing these posts thanking the president for increasing our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by something like 120 billion USD. It upsets me because it betrays a piss …
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Noynoy Aquino is the worst president the Philippines ever had
Supporters of Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino insist that he is the “greatest” President the country has ever had. Now that his term is about to end, they worry about …
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Will mutineer-turned-‘senator’ Antonio Trillanes IV make a good Philippine president?
The vacuousness of Philippine politics is on a roll, delivering yet another no-surprise revelation: mutineer-turned-‘senator’ Antonio Trillanes IV may be inching his way towards a presidential candidacy for the 2016 …
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Pork Barrel has evolved from PDAF and DAP into something that is yet-to-be-named
Pork Barrel, the primary feature and, to many Filipino politicians, the whole point of Philippine politics is not dead yet. It remains alive, despite the crushing of its two biggest …
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7 reasons why PNoy’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is wrong
During his fifth State of the Nation Address, President BS Aquino appeared frustrated at having to keep defending his Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) to the Filipino people. At some point …
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What we learned from PNoy’s 5th State of the Nation Address
I stand corrected. Last night I issued this rather glib tweet: “So what do we at GRP do now? We predicted EXACTLY what #PNoy was gonna say in #SONA2014. #NoChallenge”. …
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PNoy’s speech should be shut down the minute he attacks the Supreme Court #SONA2014
What further use to Filipinos is a president who had all but painted himself into a corner? That is essentially the way Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III will …
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