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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:15:28 +0000

  THE people in Malacañang, the Palace of the People, don’t con­sider it a “transportation crisis” that fewer LRT trains are running and passengers find themselves squeez­ing into buses and jeepneys like sar­dines with legs, or that MRT trains bog down as a matter of habit. Or that jeepney operators can “suc­cessfully” call a nationwide […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:15:31 +0000

  PRRD has been breaking rules, including those which he acknowledges as “coming from my mouth.” But when he was in Russia, his attention was called to the way he broke protocol with the way he wore his suit during a formal meeting. His collar was unbuttoned, his necktie loosely knotted. The fashion police was […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:30:42 +0000

  WE feed them. Train them, shelter them, educate them. We expect them to live up to their sacred duty to protect and serve us with a badge, uniform, and gun. So when they rob us blind, take away our faith in lawful author­ity, turn their back on their sworn duty while getting paid for […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:45:40 +0000

  IF there were minors at home watching the televised cover­age of the Senate hearing on the ninja cops accused of “recycling” confiscated drugs, I would have exercised my duty to censor what they were viewing. The sorry spectacle of Aquino vs Albayalde, Magalong vs Albayalde, and Albayalde sinking deeper into the hole being dug […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:59:31 +0000

  WOULD you believe the buzz coming out of political circles? Senator Bong Go is the chosen one for 2022. Even more unbelievable, or remarkable, his running mate for VP will be – guess who but the man who’s always seen standing beside him, in front of him, whose fresh off-the-cuff statements he’s repeating like […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:00:03 +0000

  (WITH apologies to Greta Thun­berg, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, who scolded 200 world leaders attending a UN cli­mate summit in New York, for spin­ning “fairy tales of endless economic growth” while the planet is being de­stroyed by greed and inaction.) For one week, senators listened to resource persons talking about the “drug queen.” They […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:00:19 +0000

  AS BuCor figures go, 1,914 convicts were wrongly released for good conduct and “good time.” But as of Monday, 2,221 had surrendered and gone back to their home suite home, behind bars (or none). What kind of logic rules our pub­lic servants’ brains? Going by their own figures, 307 lodgers who were not on […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:45:03 +0000

  WHAT is it about September? Martial Law anniversary. Birth­day of Ferdinand Marcos. Sept. 8, 1969, formal inauguration of the Cul­tural Center of the Philippines, with special guest Ronald Reagan, Califor­nia governor who would later become US president. These days, Senator Imee Marcos will remember September 2019 as the time students of two universities declared […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:00:04 +0000

  HE was slumped on the couch, fast asleep, catching up on his 40 winks. Someone woke him, time to open Kapihan sa Manila Hotel. He jumped up, wide awake, apologizing for the need to compensate for lack of sleep, having had to monitor the weather at 2 a.m. before deciding whether to cancel classes. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:45:20 +0000

  TRYING to read the President’s mind – Cubao to Buendia on EDSA in five minutes, for example – is a slippery slope. The latest outburst, “Gusto ko happy siya!” – referring to every gender known to man and woman – was Digong’s way of calling the SOGIE bill a re­dundancy as there’s already an […]