A mindless shot from the hip response

Solita Collas-Monsod 02/08/2020

It seems our country has swung from one end of the pendulum to the other where the 2019-nCoV is concerned. Previous columns discussed the never-to-be-forgotten message of Sen. Bong Go saying that it was “improper” for Philippine…

Best justice system that money can buy

Solita Collas-Monsod 01/13/2018

There are very few times that I agree with President Duterte’s spokesman Harry Roque, and fewer times with Solicitor General Jose Calida, but stranger things happen. Where do we agree? In Roque’s instance, where he described the…

Assessing a president’s behavior

Solita Collas-Monsod 10/14/2017

A book titled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump — 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” has just been published, and warning bells started pealing in my mind as I read its reviews and…

Making change work for women

Madrileña de la Cerna, Solita Collas-Monsod 03/04/2017

March as the National Women’s Month opened with a double treat at the Capitol Social Hall with the 17th Cebu Provincial Women’s Congress spearheaded by the Provincial Women’s Commission and the “We Make Change: Women Inspiring Women…

His usual hype or (shudder) not?

Solita Collas-Monsod 10/22/2016

Now I know how the Cubans must have felt when Fidel Castro, who overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and gained their adulation for it, declared himself a Marxist-Leninist two years later. Of course,…

What goes on in Bilibid

Solita Collas-Monsod 09/24/2016

As of the morning of Sept. 23 (yesterday), the prison population in the maximum-security camp of the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa was 15,978, being guarded by 126 Special Action Force men per shift. I don’t know if…

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