Woe is me By Manuel Buencamino “A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”—John Jay Chapman My palace mole came through again. He sold me another page [...]
Worrisome omens By Ellen Tordesillas Let’s help Lorelei Fajardo, deputy presidential spokes-person, understand where the fear that Gloria Arroyo will ferociously hold on to power even after June 30, 2010 is coming from. Fajardo said, “The President intends to vacate her office when her term ends in 2010, and does not know where such fear-mongering [...]
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US Capitalism Implodes By Antonio C. Abaya The decision of the Bush administration to inject $700 billion into the credit and finance sectors of the US economy is a tacit admission that American capitalism, especially under the stewardship of the Republican Party, has imploded and unraveled, probably beyond repair. The $700 billion bailout is meant [...]
Landscape Gemma Cruz Araneta Zamora’s sacrifice Those who remember (like Mayor Alfredo S. Lim) will celebrate the birthday of Padre Jacinto Zamora, who with Jose Burgos and Mariano Gomez championed the cause of secular priests during the 19th century. They believed it was a travesty and an injustice for religious priests, (called friars) to hold [...]
Landscape Gemma Cruz Araneta Thomasites had a tough time One wonders if the Thomasites were ever told that they were sent to the Philippines to teach English as part of the “policy of attraction” of the USA government. The Philippine-American War began a year before they arrived and neither Admiral Dewey nor President Mckinley imagined [...]
The Patriotism of Filipinos GLIMPSES Jose Ma. Montelibano Disaster, after all, is not the exclusive experience of Filipinos, it is a growing nightmare in America as well. The collapse of giant business enterprises that symbolize American stability is sending a tremor in American society that is cracking its core confidence and occasional economic arrogance today. [...]
Mar Roxas can become president sans negative campaigning AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo I have three reasons for writing this column. One — I want to see the dawn of a new type of political campaigning in the Philippines where candidates, especially presidential candidates, sell themselves to the voters on the [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz The Palin Effect When Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a lot of people wondered if Palin was qualified to become Vice President of the United States. Having been a mayor of a small Alaska town of 9,000 residents and governor of Alaska [...]
Who really wanted martial law in the Philippines in 1972? AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo If once-upon-a-time dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos is to be believed, it was the United States who wanted martial law in the Philippines in 1972. Now, likely you will think that the suggestion is absolutely preposterous and [...]
