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If we let this pass, no significant witness will testify… because of fear”, Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago fumed. She seeks 24-hour police protection for Commission on Audit commissioner Heidi Mendoza who documented Makati hospital scams before the…
Is the 10 percent slump in Vice President Jejomar Binay’s polls the beginning of a free fall? Good question, as Commission on Audit data shovels up more data on embedded graft. But this can smudge equally compelling…
“Chiz, your “Heart” is not in the right place.” Phil Cruz emailed that in reaction to the “Macabre Joke” column the Inquirer published on September 27 which discussed Senator Francisco Escudero’s proposal to bury the embalmed remains…
Inter the embalmed body of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero suggested, of all days, on the 42nd anniversary of the impostion of martial law. Sure. The 3,257 extrajudicial …
A different prism on martial law came over the weekend from a Filipino who grew up in Argentina. To mark the 42nd anniversary of Marcos saving “democracy by bayonets,” Bino A. Realuyo wrote about “my belated awakening”…
Awakening of consciousness is a series of spaced splashes… until bright blocks of perception are formed… affording memory a slippery hold,” novelist Valdimir Nabokov wrote in his book “Speak Memory.” That aptly sums up the 42nd anniversary…
What do you do when all seats are taken? The Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and Malaysia control real islands in the South China sea. “China came very late to this party and missed out on all the good…
Next-door Malaysia dashed into the future this September by back-peddaling into the past. Kuala Lumpur clamped back the 1948 Anti Sedition Law. This is “the broadest crackdown… since the era of strongman leader Mahathir Mohamad”, now 89.…
The kind of ancestors we’ve had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. This axiom is apt for the 135th birthday of President Sergio Osmeña this September 9. Today’s rites in his…
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain”, the cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittte sings in the 1964 Broadway musical “ My Fair Lady.” She’d been taught to speak “proper English” by phonetics professor, Henry Higgins…
Talk does not cook rice.” That does not refer to Vice President Jejomar Binay twisting in the wind for the overpriced Makati buildings. The proverb is tailor-fit for Senator Cynthia Villar, who chairs the committee on agriculture.…
The immediate often blurs the significant. Pope Francis’ press conference aboard the plane returning from his South Korea visit is an example. He made “a chopping gesture and a whistling sound as if to say death comes…
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