NYT: “Not if but when: PHL will lose Spratlys”
Forget President Aquino’s oafish bluster: “We will defend Recto Bank as if it were Recto Avenue.” The Philippines doesn’t have a chance of resisting China’s advances in islands and reefs…
Aquino and his spokesman
Just two weeks ago, it was Palace spokesman Edwin Lacierda who was called a liar. And not just by any Chinese official but by Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chung-yin.…
Do ghosts change their clothes, use underwear?
That’s one smart-alecky quip to throw cold water on animated accounts, which you’ll hear often in this season of ghosts, of ethereal creatures crossing the oceans of time and space—as…
A lying president before the Focap
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…
Amb. Cuisia’s board seats: Did he just follow del Rosario’s precedent?
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…
Aquino’s part-time ambassador to the US
Doing research on some other topic, I stumbled on what at first I thought were outdated information.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…
Was Islam a Christian sect?
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…
‘Aquino blames his hair loss, earthquake on Arroyo’
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…
Will Napoles implicate Aquino?
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…
Budget laws beyond Aquino
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…