As a Filipino, I find it embarrassing that our President in his speech before foreign correspondents seems to think that they’re stupid, that they wouldn’t see through his lies. “Connect…

Consul Elmer Cato, press officer of the Philippine embassy in the US wrote this newspaper contesting several points of my column 21 October 2013 entitled “Aquino’s part-time ambassador to the…

Doing research on some other topic, I stumbled on what at first I thought were outdated information. But the info turned out to be accurate—and troubling. The conglomerate Philippine Investment…

Filipinos last Tuesday enjoyed an unexpected holiday few most probably knew what it was about. It was the day of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, one of…

That’s just one example how sarcasm and biting, even cruel humor the postings of netizens in cyberspace have been in reaction President Aquino’s most recent gaffe blaming his predecessor for…

Yes, alleged pork-barrel scam operator Janet Lim-Napoles would have done so in the Senate probe. She would have at the very least disclosed, as jueteng whistle-blower Sandra Cam alleged a…

Both President Aquino and Budget Secretary Florencio Abad think that Filipinos are so stupid they can be fooled all of the time, or budget laws are just beyond their comprehension—or…

Either this administration thinks we’re all stupid, or it is dopey in interpreting the laws of the land. It may be so stupid as to announce even its illegal actions.…

How did President Aquino use the money he had hijacked from the regular budget and corralled into a fund for what he called the “Disbursement Acceleration Plan” (DAP)? Other than…

Remember the three spokesmen for the prosecution panel in Chief Justice Renato Corona’s trial and the prosecutors who portrayed themselves as daang-matuwid anti-graft crusaders? Did you ever wonder why Representatives…