By: Alex P. Vidal “If you look only at Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it’s an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn’t real, if it’s just an allegory, it’s just a story, then what’s the real Adam
December 21, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” – Mahatma Gandhi THE guilty verdict came 10 years after the grisly massacre happened; when some people have forgotten how the 58 non-combatant civilians, including 32 media workers, were killed
December 20, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal IT was probably a coincidence that the greatest Filipino journalist was an Ilonggo from Jaro, Iloilo City. While many of Graciano Lopez Jaena’s fellow journalists were hailed as martyrs after being murdered in the line of duty more than a hundred years after his death of tuberculosis, he died a hero
December 19, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” -George Carlin It all looks so effortless. An innocent child would swallow the propaganda fantasy peddled by generations of Christmas cards to divert attention away from what is, undoubtedly, the most spectacular research and
December 18, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” – Che Guevara AYN Rand would have been amazed by the force and effectiveness of today’s netizens to influence and shape public opinion. In this generation, they constitute the social media’s New Intellectuals,
December 14, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.” – Pope Francis MANY of us give gifts to promote the reputation that we are nice, generous people;
December 13, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.” – Al Smith SANTA Claus came to Iloilo City Hall just in time. The check worth P134,927,522.63 personally delivered by Panay Electric Company (PECO) Public
December 12, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” – Saint Augustine THE humility shown by the Panay Electric Company (PECO) when it settled its real property tax arrears amounting to more than P134 million with the
December 11, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” – Deepak Chopra SOMETHING good came out from the Iloilo City Council before the end of
December 9, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “True, it’s not over till it’s over. And even when it’s over, it just begins again.” ― Kate McGahan THE final hymn wasn’t played yet. But it looks like MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) will close the year 2019 with a major edge over its rival, Panay Electric Company
December 6, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” – Abraham Lincoln ASIDE from the excellent performances of Iloilo athletes now competing in the 30th Southeast Asian Games hosted by
December 5, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” – Thomas Jefferson IT seems so many anomalies and scandals are being committed in the government by dishonest,
December 2, 2019