May 3, 2025
As the nation awaits the outcome of the May 12 midterm elections to determine the next set of elected officials, a fresh three years for most of the winners from local councilor up to congresspersons and six years for senators, we can only hope that they make good their promise to serve the people as […]
April 26, 2025
In a democratic form of government we adhere to the time honored principle that such government is of the people, by the people and for the people. If the elected leaders in that democratic government deliberately choose not to serve the people that voted them into office but to serve only their own selfish vested […]
April 19, 2025
There’s this saying in billiards that when the stakes are high, like when the betting is heavy, and the pool players competing against each other are of the highest caliber, there is only one way to make sure that you can come out on top and that is sure ball pocketing. Among the elite billiard […]
April 13, 2025
The Philippine government should have a clear and unequivocal understanding of the United States and its aim of always asserting its dominance in the global stage be it militarily or economically and using to its advantage whatever treaties or agreements it had established with its so called ‘friends’ and allies. So whatever assistance the US […]
April 5, 2025
More and more incidents and cases of so called ‘road rage’ are occurring with regularity along the main thoroughfares of cities and municipalities particularly along busy roads and streets populated with all types of motor vehicles. And sometimes all it takes is for one motorist to feel and somehow sense that his right, if there […]
March 30, 2025
As former president Rodrigo Duterte remains in incarceration in the Hague, Netherlands, awaiting trial for allegations he committed crimes against humanity one wonders whether he would now have sufficient opportunity to ponder the ramifications of his actions both as mayor of Davao City (2013-2016) and president of the Republic (2016-2022) when his so called war […]
March 22, 2025
There is something to be said about those who claim to be courageous, totally unafraid and absolutely committed to a chosen course of action or advocacy and then later on backtracks and find ways and means to avoid accountability when the proverbial s_ _ t hits the fan. Take for instance Senator Bato Dela Rosa […]
March 15, 2025
Isaac Newton, a famous mathematician and physicist once said, ‘to every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.’ It basically means that any force exerted on an object will result in an equal and opposite force exerted back. To apply this as an analogy of sorts to the present predicament of former president Rodrigo […]
March 8, 2025
It is a little more than two months before the actual mid-term election culminates and newly elected public officials (public servants) get to bask in their victory. But for those who have become victims of poll violence the elections are either a time to grieve for the loss of a love one or be grateful […]
February 22, 2025
For those closely monitoring developments on the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte they might have noticed how quickly the general mood has changed with regard to how she projects herself right after she found out that a majority of the members of the Lower House wanted her removed from office. An impeachment proceeding has […]