The best of the Senate, the worst of the Senate
IF you endured for five hours, as I did, watching the Senate justice committee hearing yesterday, I’m sure you’d rejoice at times, but also weep at times over this key…
Ninoy Aquino: Hero or miscalculating ‘throne’ gamer?
IT was renowned scholar Edward Carr who pointed out in his book that is a bible of sorts for historians, What is History?: “The facts speak only when the historian…
The ideological bankruptcy of the Communist Party and its fronts
THE mobilization by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its organizations against the burial of strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani highlights the utter ideological and…
If the Marcos economy was so bad, why is his economic tsar Virata so respected?
IN its vitriolic anti-Marcos manifesto, the Ateneo de Manila pontificated: “The Marcos regime’s economics of debt-driven growth was disastrous for the Philippines.” An earlier column–but reposted in some Facebook pages…
Congress should summon De Lima’s other alleged lovers
ONE of the most disgusting revelations made by Senator Leila de Lima’s lover, her former driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayan, in the explosive hearing yesterday by the House of Representatives’ committee on…
FVR: The Yellow Cult’s hidden High Priest?
In opposing the burial of Marcos remains at the Libingan ng mg Bayani, fomer President Fidel Ramos said things that are so absurd that these border on the surreal. Ramos’…
Why the Yellows and Reds are deliriously livid over Marcos’ burial
THERE is one hidden yet indubitable reason why the Aquinos’ Yellow Cult and the Communist Party with its fronts are apoplepctic over the burial of the strongman Ferdinand Marcos’ remains…
It is Ramos who should apologize over Martial Law ‘abuses’
IT is hypocritical, and plainly wrong, for former President Fidel Ramos to ask the Marcos family to apologize over martial law and its abuses—on three dimensions. First, Ramos was one…
Duterte backs rogue killer cops
And that’s very wrong, and should deeply worry us. Even the top brass and officers of the Philippine National Police were shocked that President Duterte has come out defending the…
Why Trump is like Duterte, and why he’s not
Global superpower America and our poor, pathetic Philippines are obviously so different in economic status, political maturity and culture. Yet how uncanny that in the same year, basically the same…