I ADMIRE the creativity of current protesters, including the one by the militant group Anakbayan, during the protest against the recent oil price hikes. The group coined the term “Noynoying,” inspired no doubt by the fad called “planking.” One is “planking” when one is photographed lying face down with stiffened arms and legs. One is [...]
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III is criticized by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, of all people, for the bad state of the economy in our country today. Gloria is an expert in the economy. She even has been teaching economics. Now she is writing her memoires and she remembers that Noynoy Aquino has been her student. If the economy [...]
CAN Aquino fix Arroyo’s legacy of costly and messy projects?” The subtitle of Newsbreak’s “The Seven Deadly Deals” caught my attention as I browsed around the bookstore looking for something as a birthday gift for myself yesterday. No, I haven’t read the book yet as of this writing. But the question articulated thoughts running through [...]
WHEN President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo left Malacañang in June last year, she probably thought that she had signed every executive order, presidential decree and republic act necessary to prevent the long arm of the law from reaching her. Well, as it turned out last week, she forgot one small detail: the law of karma. The [...]
WITH Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo now under arrest, Joseph Estrada seems to be immensely enjoying a reversal of roles. GMA was Erap’s vice president who replaced him after he was ousted in 2001 by the “people’s protest” Edsa 2. During her watch, Erap was detained for six years when he was tried for and convicted of plunder. [...]
NOT overkill? Local police officers, out to extricate themselves from a case of overkill, has overstretched public credulity. An unnamed policeman in civilian clothes was caught by an alert TV team while pumping bullets into three fatally injured robbery suspects lying flat and immobile in the street. Families of the slain victims described the cold-blooded [...]
