The ongoing presidential debates have taken a turn for the worse for Republican candidate Donald Trump who’s now hounded by the controversy he sowed for himself when some women came out accusing him of sexually harassing them.
The latest polls show Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton leading between four to 11 points, leading some American political observers to say that the elections are over, no thanks to Trump’s “locker room banter” which denigrated women.
And Trump’s headaches will only get worse with another presidential debate, but this early, the billionaire is showing signs of a meltdown as he accused the US media of rigging the elections in favor of Clinton.
For political science students, the US electoral process is a good subject to study and analyze the dynamics of US democracy at work.
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On the domestic front, President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against illegal drugs deserves public support if only for the reason that a drug-free society is a safer society for everyone living in the country.
The President’s relentless campaign has drawn international criticism to which he responded with cursing and all sorts of invectives. But he is clear on his orders to all law enforcement agencies to shoot to kill those who resist arrest with violence.
President Duterte’s resentment towards the US was obvious in his order to cancel the US-PH joint military exercises. It looked like a falling-out in the making in terms of diplomatic relations between the two countries along with the European Union.
There are US-based Filipinos who are worried about President Dutete’s hardline stance towards the US and EU for criticizing his campaign, and they are hoping that the President would just work hard and drop the badmouthing of the US and the EU to spare the country from any ill feelings the US and the EU may have towards his administration.
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I am happy with the steps taken by the Court of Appeals in settling the Writ of Kalikasan filed against the city government by asking both contending parties to sit down and find solution to the problem.
Mayor Tommy Osmeña is inviting the justices to visit the Inayawan dumpsite to see for themselves the real situation of the dumpsite and that things are being done to address the pollution.
Eventually the Court of Appeals would have to arrive at a decision to resolve the issue.