Vision And Leadership GLIMPSES Jose Ma. Montelibano It has been said time and again that Philippine politics have been largely devoid of vision and leadership. Because of these shortcomings, poverty and corruption are claimed to be the natural consequences. What could possibly be the missing vision, the desired leadership? What is it that Filipinos long [...]
Polarization vs. critical collaboration. (Herman Tiu Laurel/ Infowars/ Tribune column for 1-31-2008 FRI.) Last January 27 the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines met and issued a statement, lashing out at corruption in Philippine society but blaming the people for it. The bishops also declared that it would not work for the early removal of [...]
More Contrarian Voices By Antonio C. Abaya Written Jan. 28, 2008 For the Standard Today, January 28 issue The wonders of the Internet. My article of Jan. 25, Contrarian Voices, was sent by email to my e-distribution list on the evening of Jan. 25. Within hours, I received from Marc Morano of the US Senate [...]
How to legally kill Filipinos and profit from it AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Tuesday, January 29, 2008 The schemers in the House forced a midnight provision in their Cheaper Medicines Bill which sought to compel physicians to prescribe only generics. If passed, this ‘GENERICS ONLY’ provision of the House Cheaper [...]
The book of slaughter–and forgetting APATHY, HYPOCRISY, GREED ABETTED SUHARTO’S CRIMES AS DICTATOR By Renato Redentor Constantino Special to BusinessMirror, January 29, 2008 CERTAINLY, there will be a reckoning. But it will not be soon, no thanks to intrepid members of so-called Western journalism who, in the days his life hung in the balance, bravely [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz The Art of Crying After her loss to Barack Obama in Iowa, Hillary Clinton, who was stumping in New Hampshire for the first-in-the nation primary, was in a coffee shop taking questions from a group of women when someone asked her, “My question is very personal, how do you do it? [...]
Contrarian Voices By Antonio C. Abaya Written on Jan. 23, 2008 For the Standard Today, January 24 issue This column is called ‘On the Other Hand’ because it is hospitable to serious opinions, aside from my own, that question or deviate from the conventional wisdom. And that includes opinions on current environmental issues. Global warming [...]
by Jose Ma. Montelibano Like most Filipinos, I had first heard of Fr. Ed Panlilio when his candidacy for governor of Pampanga was announced. From then on, it was hard to avoid noticing him, his campaign, and his almost miraculous victory over rival candidates who were fully loaded with the necessary ingredients to win over [...]
by Herman Tiu Laurel/ Infowars/ Tribune column 1-24-2008 FVR Neda chief Cielito Habito in a recent column entitled “Suppressing the peso surge” said of countries that fixed their currencies “The very few countries who have pegged their exchange rate (China and Hong Kong, or Malaysia during the Asian financial crisis years, for example) got away [...]
by William M. Esposo / Thursday, January 24, 2008 I cannot understand why this government does not seem to trust doctors. They shut doctors out from being part of the process in drawing up revised rules on the Milk Code. They have also shut doctors out from rendering their views and insights in formulating the [...]
