by Lito Banayo from MALAYA Joker Arroyo, the senator from Makati and Bicolano town-mate of SEC Commissioner Manny Gaite (the guy who gave half a million pesos of his own money to the brother of Jun Lozada, because Jun was running low on funds in Hongkong, before he decided to come home and tell [...]
Get Real by Solita Collas-Monsod from Philippine Daily Inquirer http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20100130-250236/Manny-Villar-blameless WHILE the Senate is declaring a moratorium on the discussion of the ethics case against Sen. Manny Villar, here are some incontrovertible facts, presented in Q & A form. The source of the information is also given. Question: What roadway projects are the subject matter [...]
Unparliamentary NO HOLDS BARRED by Armida Siguion-Reyna from Tribune The Senate may be on “cease fire” to correctly focus on approving urgent bills on hand before the election break, but it will take longer for the public to forget who said what and how what was said in defense of Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. [...]
FRANKLY SPEAKING by Frank Wenceslao An LA Times news item (Jan. 26) hit close to the Philippine Senate to demonstrate what will happen to Sen. Manuel Villar if he were like Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn who pleaded guilty to a public corruption charge after earning acclaim and criticism as a juvenile court judge and [...]
With Due Respect by Artemio V. Panganiban from Philippine Daily Inquirer http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20100116-247742/Stop-demonizing-the-Supreme-Court MANILA, Philippines—I was advised not to worry about the delays in the “physical” preparations for the 2010 polls and the logistical nightmares I wrote about last week. I was assured that Comelec has contingency plans to manually count the automated ballots. Inadequate contingency [...]
by Sophia Dedace/KBK from GMANews.TV http://www.gmanews.tv/story/182878/arroyo-ready-for-lawsuits-in-chief-justice-issue Despite the supposed constitutional ban on “midnight appointments” by an outgoing chief executive, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will appoint the next chief justice even if it costs her lawsuits and a further drop in her popularity ratings, a Malacañang official said on Sunday. Deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar said President [...]
by Aurea Calica from The Philippine Star http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=545122&publicationSubCategoryId=63 MANILA, Philippines – Presidential candidates vowed to have President Arroyo prosecuted for her alleged misdeeds, except – not surprisingly – her party’s bet Gilbert Teodoro Jr. The candidates voiced their stand during the ANC Youth 2010 presidential forum held at the De La Salle University (DLSU) in [...]
by Erick San Juan A recent audio message of Osama bin Laden was aired recently over al-Jazeera satellite television claiming the failed bombing of US airliner in flight to Detroit last December 25, 2009 by a certain Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national,. Here we go again, as I have written a couple of [...]
Balitang Kutsero By Perry Diaz Recently, Sen. Joker Arroyo compared the situation faced by his friend Sen. Manuel “Titanic Manny” Villar to what the martyred Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. faced during the martial law era. No kidding! Let’s see. Ninoy said, “The Filipino is worth dying for,” and he did. Titanic Manny can say, [...]
Theres The Rub by Conrado de Quiros from Philippine Daily Inquirer It’s almost enough to make you believe in an invisible hand that guides human affairs. Twice already the best laid plots of mice and Manny have been thwarted by an unexpected turn of events. Unexpected at least from his end. The first was Cory [...]
