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My State of the Nation Address
Since I can remember, I have always equated the fight for our rights and freedoms with hope. For what use would struggling for our freedoms have if hope leaves much to be desired? If pessimism and cynicism had taken root and all we...
Of Patsies, Pushovers, and Puppets
July 2018, Helsinki. U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in what is deemed by former Central Intelligence Chief John Brennan as “nothing short of treasonous”.
Trump denied U.S. Intelligence claims that Russia had a hand in the 2016 U.S....
New charter: as old as tyranny itself
We believe that any unnecessary interference with the public will is not merely a tyranny but a folly Undue legal interference goes even further with its folly than this, since, by denying to a free people so large an amount of their...
The four faces of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
In front of the nation on his third year, what face will President Rody Duterte present come July 23?
So far, the President has exhibited four faces in the past two years. The Romans have the two-faced statue of Janus, but Duterte, a Filipino, has...
The danger of illusions
As I write this, the Consultative Committee has unanimously approved the draft of the new Charter allowing Federalism “without any objection” (based on a 03 July report by Mike Navallo of ABS-CBN News). The 22-member ConCom is headed by former Chief Justice Reynato...
Philosophy at half-past three
Early last week, a fifteen-year-old boy, one I’ve considered a son, wept after he paid me a visit early in the afternoon of Monday. He messaged me sometime half past midnight. Thinking that his mother would approve, he related snapshots of our six-hour-long...
