IN a stout rebuttal of assertions made in a Philippine Daily Inquirer column by Filipino-American…
TWO of the most common expressions that I hear from the tricycle drivers in our…
IN January 2017, The New Republic, a liberal US magazine, ran an article by journalist…
THE screws are tightening on both sides of the Pacific, pretty much like the garote…
THE classic symbol of justice is a lady with a blindfold holding weighing scale that…
In the autumn of our lives, my wife and I would love to retire in…
“EPIPHANY — A moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious…
The US will be undergoing some interesting times with the assumption of the presidency by…
IF you’re looking for a similarity between new U.S. President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo…
THE Miss Universe pageant that reels off in the Philippines this January and will culminate…
In the wake of the devastation wreaked by super typhoon Nina in the Bicol Region,…
FOLLOWING the postings and counter-postings on Facebook of folks whom I regard as righteous and…
MY father-in-law, Jose Nobleza, Sr., and my eldest brother, Wilfredo, did not live long enough…
AT my favorite watering hole in Daly City, California, the hottest topic has been the…
THE blitzkrieg burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani of the remains of the late…
THOSE who are outraged by the Supreme Court decision to allow the burial of the…
BORROWING the term used by former US Vice-President Al Gore to sound the alarm about…
IF you scan the postings on social media, you would get the impression that the…
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey should add a new act to its circus lineup,…
PHILIPPINE Transportation Secretary Art Tugade was recently crucified in mainstream and social media for reportedly…
Those old enough to remember using that trusty contraption called a typewriter, before the advent…
WILL it be a test of will between President Rodrigo Duterte and those who protest…
I went through the transcript of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President…
LAST July 12 my wife and I joined a demonstration outside the Chinese consulate in…
I WAS one of the most severe critics of Rodrigo Duterte as a presidential candidate.…
IF taxes are to be collected only by the government, then Rodrigo Duterte, incoming president…
Jess Matubis, who has worked under more Philippine presidents at close quarters than most broadcast…
REMEMBER “C5 at Taga”? For the benefit of those with short memories, in January 2010,…
“MABUHAY ang NPA!” Rodrigo Duterte has exhorted in his speeches. And Jose Maria Sison, Communist…