by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA   
How could a piece of property sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), and a lis pendens annotated upon its transfer certificate of title, land in the hands of a corporation called Crown Asia, owned and controlled by the so-called “brown taipan”, Manuel Villar, who wants to be president of the land?
The 2.18 hectare property is in the vicinity of a swanky golf course called TAT, before that Filipinas Golf Course, and even before that, during the Marcos years, known as Holiday Hills, in the municipality …

GLIMPSES
by Jose Ma. Montelibano
In the alleged attempts to influence Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to stop the investigation of Senator Manuel Villar in the C-5 controversy and to make Senator Dick Gordon withdraw from the presidential race, the phrase “not for sale” had been used as the reason why the two senators did not accept the offers. Of course, Manny Villar denied the allegations of Enrile and Gordon.
If Enrile and Gordon are not for sale, what about other Filipinos? If billions of pesos are being spent in the presidential campaign, what …

The Long View
by Manuel L. Quezon III
from Philippine Daily Inquirer
 http://mlq3.livejournal.com/152370.html
THE REMAINDER OF THE NATIONAL CAMpaign has two parts: from the present time, when the newest surveys have defined the remaining challenges ahead for the two leading candidates, to Holy Week; and then, from the resumption of the campaign after the Comelec ban on campaigning on Holy Thursday and Good Friday (April 1-2), to the end of campaigning on May 8, two days before election day. Straddling these two phases—the middle and final stretches of the presidential and vice-presidential campaigns—are the …

Telltale Signs
by Rodel Rodis
 
The Bible exhorts Christians to “love the sinner but hate the sin.” We are told to hate sin by refusing to take part in it and by condemning it when we see it. We are taught that sin is not to be excused or taken lightly. We are advised to love the sinner by speaking the truth in a spirit of love and to hate the sin by refusing to condone, ignore or excuse it. But that’s the theory.
For the last five years, especially after the “Hello …

by George M. Hizon
July 4, 1946 was the date we got our independence from the United States of America, or was it? Did colonialism really end when America gave us our independence on that said date? Lately, I have seen a series of events which gave me an impression that colonialism still thrives in our beloved country even after more than 500 years of foreign rule. Picture this: in a small internet café at Tomas Morato Ave., a group of noisy and rowdy foreigners (Iranians) shouting at the top of …