“I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.” —Bob Woodward THE first thing that came into my mind when I visited Washington D.C. 10 years ago or sometime in June 2015, a rainy season, was to locate the Watergate
June 9, 2025
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. ALTHOUGH House Speaker Martin Romualdez remains to be arguably one of the most disliked if not hated faces
June 7, 2025
“Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.” – Floyd Mayweather, Jr. IF they have common sense and compassion, boxing organizers will not stage the Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs) vs Mario Barrios (29-2-1, 18 KOs) 12-round WBC welterweight fisticuffs scheduled on July 19, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. But they
June 5, 2025
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” – Rabindranath Tagore THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio hasn’t yet officially started, but some politicians expected to sit as judges have begun to grandstand. They are aware media is currently laser-focused on the subject matter now that
June 4, 2025
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – HENRY A. KISSINGER WE saw the decline of quality leaders elected in the recent May 12 polls owing to lack of competitions in the local positions. Many important positions were uncontested
June 3, 2025
By Alex P. Vidal WHEN the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr. fell in February 1986, many Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) stalwarts jumped ship and were “rescued” by the late former Vice President Salvador “Doy” Laurel’s United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO). Some opted to stay behind the “defrocked” party particularly the “Marcos loyalists” hoping for the
May 31, 2025
“Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it’s an important issue, but there’s a reason that I don’t talk about politics and why I’ll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.” —Jamie-Lynn Sigler
May 30, 2025
“Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.” —George Soros IF a taxpayer will lodge a formal complaint in a competent court against any public official for suspected graft and corruption, or a similar case concerning “misuse” of public funds, it can’t be a
May 29, 2025
“I was once like you are now and I know that it’s not easy; To be calm when you’ve found something going on; But take your time, think a lot; Think of everything you’ve got; For you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not.” —Cat Stevens in a song,
May 26, 2025
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,–great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois THE big political news in Iloilo Province following the May 12, 2025 election was not the defeat of Raul “Boboy” Tupas to the “darling of the Gen Z”,
May 24, 2025
By Alex P. Vidal “Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.” —Alexander Woollcott IT seems some Filipinos think there are only two “easy” ways to wiggle out from poverty or become instant millionaire: get elected in a public office and engage in trafficking of illegal drugs. These two “income-generating schemes” have become a matter
May 17, 2025
“I will reach out to the world from the corner of my little space and no devil can stop me from fulfilling this purpose.” ―Daniel Anikor IF we’re sure winners in the recent Philippine elections, we’re supposed to start reaching out to our political rivals by initiating the first move. Even before
May 16, 2025