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Noynoy Aquino, a modern liberal
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
“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 [...]
The second Eraption. Something Mr Aquino has to deal with
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 past. [...]
Round and round
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)
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!
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, [...]
Stephanie Dychiu, James Putzel, and the ethics of reportage
The primary function of language, being a social fact, is communication, and it remains operative throughout whatever other uses language may be put. The communicative function of language takes on additional weight in journalism, because the currency of that particular trade is information, and the objective is the equal distribution of wealth thereof, as it [...]
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