Tag Archive | opinion
Death by Suffrage
Death by Suffrage I don’t know how or where to start. Writing long and winding articles have always been where I’m good at. I have also been believed to have the gift of expression — I find it easy to say (or write) exactly how I feel. But now I can’t seem to mince words [...]
Here come the Yellow Army
Preaching to the choir They say people who blog (bloggers), a tremendous percentage of which are well-educated, well-informed, “well-off” and well-”everything”, are the ones running the “online show” — and this assumption is not without basis. Go ahead and search the net for familiar terms and you’ll most likely see the same blog [...]
In Response to @Cocoy re: Noynoy
There is no greater honor for a blogger like me than be dedicated an entire post as response to one article I’ve written, specially if it’s from no less than one of those bloggers I have great respect for. It doesn’t even matter if that blogger disagrees with me or not. True to his blog’s [...]
Eight Years Strong: If She's Here, Who's Running Hell?
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard the numbing, heart-sinking news by now. And I hope mainstream media finally caught up after last night’s unnerving development on House Resolution (HR) 1109, otherwise known as the choo choo train to #conass. Apparently, that term no longer applies because as of last night, the train mutated to a speeding [...]
Philippine Presidential Elections 2010 Amidst Economic Crisis — The Boon and the Bane
Photo by London Permaculture Amidst this economic crisis we are faced with, news articles still have room for politics and 2010 elections-related articles. That’s not surprising — considering how grossly-invested we are in our politics. I’ve read a few hundred news feeds today (most of those I merely “scanned” and skimmed-through) as I don’t exactly [...]
There's No Easy Way: Peace and Its Price
“There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky “I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better [...]
The Reality of Poverty
The reality of poverty, for most of our brothers and sisters follow them to their death — as is the case with Mang Pandoy — the man showcased in the SONA (State of the Nation Address) by then President Fidel V. Ramos as a representative of the poor whose lives he aims to improve. Many [...]
Perception vs. Reality
I find it inexplicable why the BJE MOA on AD is being considered at odds with our constitution, hence this TRO and oral arguments, when a member of the MILF peace panel, MOHD. MUSIB M. BUAT in his article “A new formula in resolving the Mindanao conflict—Mohd. Musib M. Buat” at the abs-cbnNEWS.com website, said: [...]
Live and Let Live: The Non-Negotiable Solution
Today’s article at abs-cbnNEWS.com “From Brink of Peace to Brink of War” by Atty. Soliman M. Santos, Jr. brings to mind my long-held stand on the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (BJE MOA on AD).
