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Interaksyon reports that Mikey Arroyo and his uncle, Iggy, are among the top absentee solons.
Abra Representative Maria Jocelyn Bernos followed Arroyo with 29 absences, followed by Arroyo’s uncle, Ignacio, representative of Negros Occidental (27), and Negros Occidental Representative Julio Ledesma IV and Saranggani Rep. Manny Pacquiao (26).
The other lawmakers with [...]
Continue Reading →Different people have different reasons for packing their bags, getting on a plane, and setting off for distant lands. Some do it to take a quick break from their frenetic life and escape to sun, sea, surf… and shopping. Some do it for work, the trip necessitated by this client meeting or that conference. Others [...]
Continue Reading →Assessing PNoy’s freshman year: the good, the bad and the ugly
In numerology, the number 1 bears singular importance. The first, the start, the origin of anything bears significance and meaning in the sense that it opens up possibilities, it sets the scene, and it leads the way. The level of anticipation and anxiety [...]
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Lourd de Veyra mocks Sara Duterte for aping the masculine, and implicitly her father. The assumption, of course, is that only men are capable of doing bodily harm. Only men resort to pummeling others in flights of rage. Women, on the other hand, express their anger and frustration in other ways. [...]
The Makati Business Club which by and large supported the candidacy of PNoy paid him homage in his first year in office by crediting his administration for the numerous upgrades the country received from ratings agencies, but the underlying cause might be found elsewhere.
The MBC spoke of the way in which [...]
Continue Reading →“Kadiri” is the word that retired Bishop Teodoro Bacani used to express his disapproval of the same sex marriage ceremony held in Baguio City. The English word for kadiri is “disgusting”, from the noun “disgust: a feeling of revulsion or profound disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.”
Okay, so same-sex marriage [...]
Continue Reading →In an age where representations of a factual event can be made to go viral in a matter of hours, even minutes, perhaps we should develop the habit of pausing for a little reflection. In our online echo chambers the ‘event’ seems to have developed into various narratives, each representing a certain point of [...]
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