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The Ayungin Shoal Incident: We are being made suckers again
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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The case of Julian Ongpin: It’s different when you are rich
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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The CPP should award Sen. Angara
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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Vote them out in 2022
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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The ‘Great Lie,’ unmasked, finally
“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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Nobel Prize anyone? Thank you, but no
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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A vote for progress or regression in 2022
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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HB 10171 is a ‘spear’ pointed at the brain of the State
IN WHAT could be an ironic twist of fate, Congress on September 21, 2021, the day Pres. Ferdinand Marcos placed the entire country under martial law in 1972 to protect the State from…
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‘Common prosperity’ shows strength, correctness of China-style governance
IN A move that can only be described as unprecedented and truly historic in the annals of human civilization, the Communist Party of China, under Pres. Xi Jin Ping, announced another…
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LGUs greed would put everything to waste
SINCE the establishment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in 2019 by Pres. Duterte, it has, without a doubt, made great strides in weakening…
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