Noynoy Aquino is probably the first President of the Philippines who has recommended to Congress that the budget of the state university and college (SUC) system be cut. At the apex of this system is the University of the Philippines (UP), which received a 20% cut which is around 1.39 billion pesos. In the past, [...]
Noynoy Aquino, a modern liberal
June 18, 2010 By 48 Comments
For the many who have enthusiastically supported or joined EDSA II, myself among them, the final push was almost certainly the failure of the constitutional process (the remedy of impeachment) to hold then President Estrada accountable for charges of multiple impeachment offenses. (President–elect Noynoy Aquino himself has threatened to go directly to the people the [...]
Gloria’s game
June 1, 2010 By 17 Comments
“Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth At around the time that the hardworking and prayerful Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was due to deliver her ninth—and presumably last—State of the Nation Address, as well as for several days after, the phrase “lame duck” was predictably bandied about to refer to her. [...]
The Incoming Official Family of The President-In-Waiting
May 28, 2010 By 65 Comments
The second Eraption. Something Mr Aquino has to deal with
May 11, 2010 By 72 Comments
It seems that the COMELEC and its citizen’s arm PPCRV have pulled a successful run of the first automated elections. SMARTMATIC has also despite some IT gurus have said before, succeeded in convincing all that their digital equipment and expertise worked. Automation has resulted in something virtually unheard of in Pinoy electoral politics in the [...]
Round and round
April 17, 2010 By 22 Comments
While Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison was studiously careful not to endorse a presidential candidate in a recent Bulalat interview—endorsement being, after all, a validation of the very system that the CPP and its various arms would see consigned to the dustbin of history—I find it worth noting that, [...]
Manny does a Floyd (A missed opportunity)
April 13, 2010 By 43 Comments
In mid February 2010, presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino, who has been consistently leading the race at least according to the surveys, challenged his closest rival Manny Villar to a one-on-one debate on any issue of Villar’s choice. The challenge was accepted by Villar although conditionally. Villar said he would back off from the proposed debate [...]
Yes, we can!
March 28, 2010 By 18 Comments
In Constitutional Law litigation, there’s such a thing as the dynamics of “political settlement.” This happens in most cases when any of the three branches of the government exercises what is called statesmanship, or at times, just simple pragmatism, to avert a constitutional crisis. During the 2000 US presidential elections, it was however Al Gore, [...]
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