“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” —Kareem Abdul-Jabbar WHEN politicians panic barely three weeks to go before the May 12, 2025 Philippine election, it means they fear losing the election; and if they lose, they fear facing imminent humiliation and embarrassment. Because they’re shame-based, a defeat would be unacceptable
April 17, 2025
“Look around. There are no enemies here. There’s just good, old-fashioned rivalry.” —Bob Wells THE Philippines is currently under siege by a “virus” deadlier than heat stroke: “political stroke.” While medical experts describe heat stroke as a form of hyperthermia or heat-related illness, or an abnormally elevated body temperature with accompanying physical
April 16, 2025
“Studying abroad is about experiencing a foreign country — and the most beautiful, important part of a country’s culture is its people.” — Alexander Kolker ARE you a Filipino or a foreign student intending to study in the United States under the Trump administration and planning to apply for a student
April 15, 2025
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” —Blaise Pascal THIS year’s Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic (Hijri) calendar and one of the holiest periods of worship for Muslims, was already on the 9th day on March 9
April 14, 2025
“Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.” —David Bailey IF I were a candidate in the May 12, 2025 Philippine elections and I accused my rival as being an “under the saya” or a henpecked, would the Commission on Elections (Comelec) disqualify me for “violation” of Anti-Discrimination and Fair Campaign
April 12, 2025
“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.” — Huey Newton IF we have a morsel of patriotism in the heart and mind, and real love for fellow Filipinos, we should agitate not only for the release of International Criminal Court (ICC)-detained former strongman Rodrigo Roa Duterte, or
April 11, 2025
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” —Orson Welles THE hoarse voice and a somber face and expression from a former strongman in that most viewed video appearance recently at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands was cryptic. “My name
April 9, 2025
“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?” — Robert Orben INTUITIVE Filipinos will agree that election results in the Philippines are more or less already “known” the moment prominent survey firms start to reveal their respective survey
March 1, 2025
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” —C. S. Lewis WHILE other Christians believe that only God and the Bible have authority, we, Catholics, believe the ailing Pope Francis of Argentina is the
February 26, 2025
“You can’t put abandonment and alienation under arrest.” — Carrie P. Meek UNLIKE China, which abandoned its commitment to help build the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) Island bridges project in 2020 when it probably realized it was no longer necessary to please the subservient Duterte administration, South Korea is expected to follow through with
February 25, 2025
