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...