The old martial law architect and enforcer, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, (JPE) exchanged a nasty word-war with a young Minority Whip, Senator Alan P. Cayetano over issues of unaudited “pork barrels” and MOOE, money for office maintenance and staff. It is frustrating to know how JPE disposes of the serious accusation of the young Senator…
Though coming from a family without single hectare of farmland into our name, I can be passionate about the effect of the recent SC decision parceling out the 6,000 hectares Hacienda Luisita (HL) to some 6,296 farmers. Not that the high tribunal’s decision came after a long deep slumber in the court which had earlier decreed…
There is “tsunami” like efforts and lobby money too to reclassify the late strongman Mr. Marcos from a dictator-villain to a war hero. His supporters, as well as the Philippine military and the 204 Congressmen who want Mr. Marcos buried at the “Libingan ng Mga Bayani” consider the late dictator a hero for his 27…
I watched with great discomfort the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing yesterday looking into the “money-trail” of General Jacinto Ligot and his wife, Erlinda and after about an hour of fruitless reel, I was rigid with stiff neck in a half-recumbent posture on a couch, but somehow I have managed to draw a conclusion that…
Ermita, the Novel is about the beautiful prostitute Maria Ermita, born to a rich aristocratic maiden, Conchita, of Spanish lineage, raped (the mother) by a Japanese soldier at the twilight of Japanese occupation of Manila, just before the American “liberated the city”. It is not coincidental that she was named Ermita the world “cheapest fuck”…
“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…
I was for Senator Noynoy Aquino, though I am in America and during his campaign I have twice remitted small amount of money through his Yellow and Honest Movement, Inc. Noynoy and his teammate Sen. Mar Roxas won by wide margin from the U.S.-Pinoy electorate. I could only guess that if half of those who…
An annoyed Olympus God threw a bolt of blinding lightning and a ball of rumbling thunder across the valley of miscreant lowlifes to instill fear on one misguided and insolent soul who dare challenge the integrity of these “cloud-dwelling” deities. This is the closest metaphor I can think of the One Million Peso libel complaint…
At the expense giving up a whole day of productive labor, I wrote this piece instead, somewhat distressed by Ding’s comparison of the cockpit joint with the Philippine Senate. (Ding Gagelonia, God Bless his soul, is a blogger in Filipino Voices) I thought the simile far off and the comparison an insult to the cockpit. In…
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