Editorial

THE updated list of accredited partylists allowed to participate in next year’s national elections, as of December 17, 2021, contains 166 groups, according to the Commission on…
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OVER the way convicted libeler, Maria Ressa of Rappler delivered her speech last December 10, 2021 on receiving her ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ award, we agree with everyone that it was…
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THE most ridiculous—and hypocritical—statement from Catholic bishops in relation to the 2022 polls that we have thus far read is their “reminder,” nay, “admonition,” for presidential…
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IN a press statement last November 18, 2021, rightfully loaded with patriotic anger, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, denounced the Chinese Coast Guard for using water…
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LAST November 15, 2021, the Regional Trial Court of La Union, dismissed the illegal drug possession case against Julian Ongpin, the “Rich Boy” and we can say, “pampered son” of one of…
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IN A congressional week thick with hypocrisy, Senate Finance Committee chair, Sen. Edgardo ‘Sonny’ Angara, his father’s namesake but not necessarily a cut from the latter’s cloth,…
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THERE is a ‘specter’ that would be hounding the 2022 national elections. And it would not be the likely return to Malacañang of another ‘Marcos’—former senator Ferdinand…
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“TO THE victor,” according to Adolf Hitler, “belongs the right to write history.” And for 35 years now, or from 1986, when Pres. Ferdinand Marcos was illegally ousted from power, our…
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THE ridiculously funny—yet sickening—report that greeted the country’s journalism profession last week was the announcement that Maria Ressa, founder of online news site, ‘Rappler,’…
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WITH the start of the filing of the certificate of candidacy for all elective positions last October 1, 2021, the country, pandemic or not, is to be entertained anew by the longest…
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