Smartmatic chairman: Cory’s close-in media adviser
A bit of information that was not mentioned in the bio-data of Smartmatic Chairman Mark Malloch Brown, as posted on the company’s website, was that he was the close media…
ISIS’ rise and terror should tell us to junk and bury BBL now
First of Two Parts It is quite astonishing. The civilized world has been aghast over the jihadist carnage in Paris since it occurred two weeks ago. In just a few…
What kind of senators do we have, who disrespect the Constitution?
What kind of a country have we become now that our senators ignore the Constitution, that document which binds us as a nation? The disqualification case against Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares…
Aquino’s big boo-boo at APEC: Snubbing our biggest trading partner
President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s bungling in having the APEC event in Manila cost Filipinos horrendous traffic, P10 billion in taxpayers’ money, and tens of billions of pesos in foregone contract…
Bulgarian and Romanian parliaments ratified their ‘EDCAs’ Our Senate can’t be an inferior body
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, the Senate chairman of the foreign relations committee, is right. The “Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement” (EDCA) that President Benigno Aquino 3rd entered into with the United States…
Aquino: President of and for the oligarchs
Never in the Philippines’ post-war history have we had a President so representative of and servile to the oligarchy. President Aquino has shamelessly demonstrated again and again that the oligarchs…
Aquino snub of Yolanda rites reflects his ‘buhay-pa-naman-kayo’ haciendero attitude
I couldn’t believe that President Benigno Aquino 3rd snubbed Tacloban City’s invitation for him to attend this year’s rites for Super Typhoon Yolanda’s second anniversary. It was the worst disaster…
Roxas: Bullet carriers came from shooting ranges
That’s how presidential candidate Manuel A. Roxas 2nd tried to explain away the raging “tanim-bala” controversy in an interview with reporters the other day in Cauayan City, Isabela. He cited…
Under Aquino, we’ve become the most violent country in Asia, next to NKorea
That’s according to the 2015 rankings by the “Global Peace Index” of 162 countries done annually since 2007 by a panel of international experts in the Institute for Economics and…
Aquino’s buddies, the worst officials
By buddies I mean those with whom he has had close personal ties, but who have utterly botched their responsibilities. Consider for instance this most shameful “tanim-bala” racket at our…