MAY THE SAINTS PROTECT US FROM MEDDLESOME BISHOPS on Aug 23, 2009MAY THE SAINTS PROTECT US FROM MEDDLESOME BISHOPS Bishop Manolo de los Santos of the Diocese of Virac, Catanduanes, is up in arms over a proposed coal mine in the island province. Other bishops have joined in and intend to ask Pope Benedict XVI to...
VP NOLI’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN on Aug 16, 2009In the campaign for next year’s Presidential elections, Vice President Noli de Castro is using his accomplishments at Pag-IBIG as his launching pad. Skirting the law against premature electoral campaigning, he says that the full-page multi-colored...
CORY’S LEGACY TO THE WORLD on Aug 3, 2009Freedom loving peoples all over the world will forever owe the late Corazon C. Aquino a tremendous debt of gratitude which can never be repaid. The 1986 People Power Revolution rocketed Corazon Aquino, a widowed housewife with absolutely no experienc...
THE FUTILITY OF PEACE TALKS on Jul 26, 2009The President has ordered the Armed Forces (AFP) to cease all operations against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) paving the way for the resumption of peace talks. The MILF has responded by stopping all operations against the AFP, thank you v...
CHEAPER MEDICINES on Jul 19, 2009To bring down the atrocious prices of medicines and drugs, Malacanang wants to exercise its vast powers by issuing Executive Orders. In other words, Malacanang wants to manipulate the market. The best way to bring down prices of medicines and drugs...
THE TYRANNY OF RED TAPE on Jul 13, 2009We are all wrapped up with the problem of graft and corruption, as well we should. Yet, there is another problem as pernicious – government red tape, or simply red tape. In fact, red tape is the breeding ground of graft and corruption. Webster’...
WHY GOVERNMENT SERVICES COST TOO MUCH on Jul 9, 2009If you think you are paying too much for government services, you can thank President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for it. Back in January and March 2000, in the very early days of the Arroyo Presidency, Executive Orders 197 and 218 directed all national...
GSIS: WILL WINSTON GARCIA’S PROBLEMS EVER CEASE? on Jul 2, 2009Winston Garcia, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Government Insurance Service System (GSIS), was practically screaming to high heaven the other day. He was quoted in every newspaper recently as saying that government agencies –...
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: BEST IN SOUTHEAST ASIA – Part 2 on Jun 27, 2009A statistic that keeps cropping up purportedly to prove the sorry state of our educational system is this: of the applicants for a call center, only 6% survived. But if the survivors were all what the call center wanted to hire anyway, the 6% figur...
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: THE BEST IN SOUTHEAST ASIA on Jun 22, 2009Early this month, a two-part series in the Inquirer blasted our educational system. The series started by quoting Senator Angara as saying that our educational system is a “ticking time bomb…that will really blow up in our faces in two or three...
