Some 8509 miles from across the globe, New York Times counseled President Benigno Simeon Aquino to step down from power after 2016 because the fragile democracy in the country is in peril if he amends the constitution to run again and to clip the powers of the Supreme Court. This unsolicited advice betrays a certain…
Honorable Senators sitting as impeachment court, ladies and gentlemen in the galleries, citizens of the republic and friends. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and President of Pixar, in 2005, five years before he died said: “Don’t be trapped with dogma, which is living with the results of others’ thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’…
A friend sent this newspaper cut-out from a small county newspaper in Michigan.
The Church is under siege from politicians, and some white-knight “free thinkers” and some groups operating under the fringes of “Christian-based” churches, and the “publicity-crazed” church trespasser, Mr. Carlos Celdran because of its position on the controversial reproductive health bill under consideration in Congress. But what is the reproductive health bill all about? It is about…
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” ( Hunter Thompson, 1937 – 2005 U.S. writer and journalist). The Anti-Pinoy is a blog site which is…
SCORP’s feather is ruffled over the budget proposal that hikes only one BILLION of its previous budget from what it perceived requirement of P27.1 Billion for 2011. Malacanang submitted to Congress on August 24 a P14.3 Billion budget for the judiciary which was one billion more than its previous budget and the SCORP, through its…
Upset over their “boss” playing footsie with justice The resolution of Acting DOJ Secretary Alberto Agra exonerating Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan from the charge of murders of some 57 people in Maguindanao highlights two basic truism in our judicial process, 1) the powerful and the well-connected are above the law and 2) our judicial machinery…
Mother Theresa is about to be honored by the United States Postal Service by proposing to issue on her 100th birthday, this coming August 26, a commemorative stamp bearing the diminutive nun from Albany who had served the poor of Calcutta, India from 1950 to 1997 and the poor all over the world through her…
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