By Alex P. Vidal “I’ve been wrong on everything about Trump; I’ve been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me – with that caveat – to make the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen.” — Cory Booker
October 19, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” —Brigham Young WE exhort the congresswomen and congressmen from Western Visayas to assert their independence from the executive branch now that lines have been drawn in the national legislature. If their colleagues from other regions can’t, the Ilonggo
October 17, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.”—Eugene V. Debs ALTHOUGH we have been informed that the U.S. Presidential Election will be on November 3, there are actually three ways to vote here
October 16, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?”—Saint Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church “HAIL Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the
October 15, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” — Joseph Joubert ANGERED by poll results showing President Donald Trump stumble several weeks before the November 3 U.S. Presidential Election, some of Mr. Trump’s die-hard Filipino supporters in New York City
October 13, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “When actors are vying for the same kinds of roles, there’s bound to be a little rivalry. Deep friendships cannot be forged when you are competing with each other.” — Juhi Chawla IF asked to take sides, Ilonggo congresswomen and congressmen should shun partisanship in the House of Representatives and reject
October 12, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Defy the limitations people put on you.”—Adebayo Akinfenwa THERE is growing optimism among some independent members of the Filipino community in the United States to defy the “call” made earlier by President Rodrigo R. Duterte for Filipinos living in the U.S. to vote for President Donald Trump in the
October 10, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want.”—Naomi Osaka NOT all party-list representatives in the Philippines are given the chance to shine, much less catapult in the limelight by making it in the banner story of reputable media outlets—unless
October 9, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.” —James Lovelock AS New York City relived some of the nightmares it endured earlier this spring when coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases reportedly began to surge, I immediately visited CityMD Urgent Care, currently offering two forms of
October 8, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.”—Vladimir Putin EVEN if someone hates U.S. President Donald Trump to the max, it would be most unChristian to wish for his death now that he has contracted the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Even his political rivals and some of those he
October 6, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”—Noam Chomsky I HAVE noticed that some if not most of our colleagues in the United States media are biased and political. If their reports don’t tilt on the side of the Republicans, they are on the side
October 5, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.”—John Layfield US President Donald Trump’s No. 1 supporter in the New York City Filipino community has nixed calls to defund the police, defending the New York Police Department (NYPD) as “the most compassionate cops
October 3, 2020