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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Come to Think of It

Will divorce bills prosper?

LAST February 5, a month before the country went on lockdown, the committee on family relations of the House of Representatives approved House Bill No....

Fundamental rights are non-negotiable

ON MAY 5, 2020, teacher Ronnel Mas posted on Twitter: “I will give 50 million reward kung sino makakapatay kay Duterte.” Six days later he...

Naked display of political power

MAY THE National Telecommunications Commission grant ABS-CBN provisional authority to operate in the meantime that its franchise has expired, and its renewal is pending...

When lawyers are afraid

ACTIVIST Jory Porquia, Bayan Muna Iloilo coordinator, was shot dead by at least four unidentified armed men in his rented home at Arevalo in...

Conduct becoming of a troll

WHEN you find a dead cockroach served with your pancit canton, do you not have the right to complain and the right to be heard by...

The fourth horseman

“I SAW, and look! A pale horse, and the one seated on it had the name Death. And the Grave was closely following him. And authority...

Mayors in action

THE nCovid pandemic has affected us in ways like no other calamity ever has. Typhoons, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have brought us to our knees. But this...

Devastation of Philippine maritime wealth

SENATOR Manny Pacquiao was heard in the radio explaining his vote against the resolution forwarded by Senator Franklin Drilon and others that opposed the Philippines’ withdrawal from...

Locked in Luzon

AS OF press time, the Palace has just announced the issuance over the weekend of a memorandum placing the entire Luzon under “enhanced community quarantine.” In broad...

Shadow boxing

THE lights are up. The fighter throws punches in the air without an opponent. He throws combinations. He fights his own shadow. By all indications, this...