PACQUIAO’S DOCTORATE (HONORIS CAUSA)
By Maloney L. Samaco
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 31 Jan 2009
It was officially announced by the administration of the Southwestern University that the world’s number one pound-for–pound boxer Manny Pacquiao will be awarded the degree Doctor in Human Kinetics, “Honoris Causa.” The conferment will be done on February 18, 2009.“Honoris causa” is a Latin phrase which means “for the sake of the honor” and it is an academic degree conferred by a university in which the usual requirements such as matriculation, residence, lessons and the passing of examinations are waived.Usually the …

English as the big Filipino hang up
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
By William M. Esposo
Philstar: January 22, 2009
Whenever your Chair Wrecker writes about the issue of re-imposing English as the medium of instruction here, spirited responses are generated.
Many of those who support the view that English should be taught only as subjects but not imposed as the medium of instruction are from the academe. They understand the impact of language in the learning process. They know that a people will learn more when taught in the language they are most …

What Better Choices?
By Antonio C. Abaya
Written on Jan. 28, 2009
  
 
There is an item going around in the domestic cyberspace with the provocative assertion that we deserve better choices in presidential candidates in 2010. In fact, readers are encouraged to submit their nominations to the email address:
 
<we.deserve.better.choices.2010@gmail.com>
The short message goes as follows:
“Why should we settle with Noli de Castro (refutedly [sic] attack collect/defend collect and a GMA stooge)?
“Why should we believe Manny Villar (behind Capitol Bank failure/double titling/titling of watersheds/C-5 insertions etc etc)?
“Why should we accept Loren (wife of a convicted …

An American Revolutionary in the Philippines
by George M. Hizon
The densely forested area around the Rio de la Pampanga River was a scene of great bloodshed as dozens of Filipinos lay dead massacred by the advancing U.S. forces. It was August, 1899, when Filipino Insurrectos under General Maximino Hizon were making a futile stand against the vastly superior American army.
In a few weeks, General Hizon would be captured. He would be replaced by another Pampango general, Jose Alejandrino. General Alejandrino regroups his almost decimated forces and heads towards Mount Arayat, for, …

 
Justice at 3 A.M.
by Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J.
*Note: This is the e-mail prayer brigade initiated by Fr. Reuter for Phillip.
Phillip Andrew A. Pestaño graduated from the Ateneo de Manila High School in 1989, entered the Philippine Military Academy, and became an Ensign in the Philippine Navy in 1993. He was assigned as cargo master, on a Navy ship.
He discovered that the cargo being loaded onto his vessel included logs that were cut down illegally, were carried to the ship illegally, and were destined to be sold, illegally. Then there …

House body clears banned contractors – “Lutong Macao!”
This is one of the most blatant display of arrogance and abuse of power.  The World Bank did its own investigation of collusion among these three contractors before they wer banned.  For the House Committee on Public Works and Highways to ignore the evidence presented by the World Bank once again manifests how deep corruption is in the Philippines.  What the House committee did was pure “lutong macao.”
If the House committee members believe that the World Bank would exonerate the three contractors “cleared” by …

Very interesting!  See how the 44 US Presidents morphed from George Washington to Barack Obama.
Click here  From George Washington to Barack Obama
Enjoy!
Perry 

Of Traitors and Heroes
GLIMPSES
Jose Ma. Montelibano
It is not difficult to talk about traitors. There are so many of them around, easy to spot because they usually hold positions of power or hold great wealth. The worst traitors are come from the Church and the State, both being the the dominant and domineering institutions of the country in the last four hundred years. The Church and the State are natural sources of vision and virtue, of courage and heroism, of nobility and purity. When they live up to their highest calling, …

Tim Geithner: Wrong Man for the Job
By Rawlein Soberano
Tim Geithner is head of the Federal Reserve Board in New York for 6 years and was confirmed for Secretary of the Treasury in the Obama administration on the premise that, given the serious economic crisis facing the country, the new president deserves to have the services of a man of his abilities and experience (he worked at Treasury in 3 administrations under 5 Secretaries; was Undersecretary under Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers). Strong opposition came from the Republicans, while many …

Of Laughter and Red-hot Coals—the Humor that Saves
By Francisco F. Claver, S.J.
 
Can our vaunted Filipino sense of humor be harnessed to help us get through the sickening corruption of our times?  The question occurred to me when I received the two jokes recounted below from an American religious, Marist Brother Kevin O’Neill, who’d worked with us once in Malaybalay.  The jokes, evidently, are going the rounds of Filipino communities in the States that he is in close touch with.
 
The first is about how corruption is supposedly looked at differently in …