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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Come to Think of It

Minority of one

THE LATEST in the Alice Guo saga is the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. admitting that officials from the Duterte administration were responsible in...

The long and winding road to justice

FORMER senator Leila de Lima is finally clear of all drug charges leveled against her by the Duterte administration. This ends seven years of...

Is govā€™t paying lip service to human rights?

THE HOUSE of Representatives committee on human rights is now holding hearings on the thousands of deaths that resulted from the drug war implemented...

The ā€˜nanlabanā€™Ā formula for murder

KABATAAN party-listā€™s Rep. Raoul Manuel chided former executive secretary Salvador Medialdea for chuckling at the prospect of the House of Representatives summoning his boss...

Divorce for equality and empathy?

SHOULD the Philippines finally pass a law on divorce? Part of the ongoing debate is the question of whether such a law would contradict the...

Does Alice Guo have a backer in the Senate?

SEN. CHIZ Escudero cites the rules of evidence in the Senateā€™s disposition of the case of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo. He invokes the presumption...

Is it truly a case of late registration?

LAND deals worth at least a billion pesos have astounded the public who follow the Senate hearings on offshore gaming operations (POGO) that were...

Victory vs red-tagging

RED-TAGGING did not invade the national consciousness until Rodrigo Duterte created the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) at the...

Maricel Soriano to ignite PDEA probe

SENATOR Ronald Dela Rosa dignified online babble by actually initiating a Senate investigation into the so-called ā€œPDEA leaks,ā€ which pertain to alleged 2012 documents...

Will VP Sara hang on to DepEd?

IS THE PRESIDENT now shopping for a new Secretary of Education? First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos sent the internet abuzz this weekend when her no-holds-barred...