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Credible closure
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on January 15, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Arroyo’s well-worn path
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on January 12, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
If President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s December 30 announcement of her noncandidacy in 2004 provoked any enthusiasm, it was because of the hope that she would henceforth craft the policies and make the decisions that would address the country’s galaxy of problems unhindered by her political ambitions. Apparently the belief was widespread that her previous decisions, [...]
On guard, nevertheless
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on January 8, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
President Gloria Macapagal’s announcement that she will not run in 2004 has met, it seems, with universal approval and even admiration. Both opposition and administration senators, for example, praised the announcement as, in so many words, an act of statesmanship and selfless sacrifice.
The pursuit of nothing
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on December 22, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently to everyone’s–including his most ardent House supporters’–relief, Manila Congressman Mark Jimenez has decided to bow to the inevitable and to present himself to the U.S. Embassy in Manila. The decision will spare him the embarrassment of being arrested and imprisoned by the Philippine government of which he is a part pending his extradition to [...]
The usual suspects
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on December 16, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
The decline of the satisfaction ratings of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is the only possible reason why the already settled question of whether to put former president Joseph Estrada under house arrest or to keep him where he is has once again been raised
Howard’s carbon copy doctrine
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on December 7, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
Among other unflattering names, Australia
Reason enough for debate
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on December 1, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
It doesn’t help the administration case much for its officials to continue blabbering about how it was necessary to keep the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement a secret, despite its being a “boring,” supposedly accounting instrument to facilitate US military aid to the Philippines and US access to “facilities” in the Philippines. On the other hand, [...]
The fear of Ping
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on December 1, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
SENATOR Panfilo
Pointless–and dangerous
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on October 23, 2002 | 2 Comments »
From arming barangay tanod to a Metro Manila-wide curfew to reviving the proposal for a national ID system to the registration of cell phone SIM cards, the response of some of the country’s leaders to the October 19 bombing of a bus in Balintawak has ranged from the pointless to the dangerous. The arming of [...]
Quick fixes
Posted in abs-cbnNEWS.com on October 17, 2002 | 2 Comments »
At least one senator, Joker Arroyo, is correct about the old proposal to create a national identity card system, which the National Security Council dusted off last Monday supposedly in aid of the anti-terrorism campaign. Like most other suggestions from the police and the military, the proposal implies that the problem will be solved once [...]
