Five Routes to the Presidency in the Philippines
With Mayor Rody Duterte’s trail-blazing ascent to the presidency, we may have to rewrite the books on the ins and outs of politics in the country. He was from a marginalized region …
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Leni Robredo is not fit to be Vice President of the Philippines
Camarines Sur Representative and Vice Presidential candidate Leni Robredo is a woman. She emphasizes this every chance she gets. Even when she was in the company of men during the …
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Leni Robredo is the WRONG choice for Vice President of the Philippines
Bongbong Marcos being the ‘wrong’ choice for Vice President does not make your preferred candidate the ‘right’ choice. That does not make Rep. Leni Robredo the ‘answer’. She has not …
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Necropolitics: How Filipinos suffer from a bad case of Jesus Issues
When will Filipinos stop being such pussies about their future? At the moment, they are in the midst of a frenzy to nominate people who are all about the past …
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The winnable members of the Dead Relatives Society of Philippine politics
Today is the anniversary of the death of former Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash in 2012. Because he was seen …
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Necropolitics vs negropolitics: Can Grace Poe beat Jejomar Binay to the Philippine presidency?
So a viable winnable candidate who could pose a serious challenge to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s bid for the presidency in 2016 has emerged. Senator Grace Poe has come up …
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Does new Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno have enough emotional intelligence to run the Supreme Court?
Reports of the emotional health of newly-appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno continue to make discussion fodder for the Philippines’ chattering classes. Sereno is noted for being rated a …
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