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Part 2: Social market economy, atbp for the presidentiables

Wednesday, 26 January 2022 10:13 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Last of 2 partsTHE introduction to social market economy (SOME) in the first part of this article last week hinted at a Philippine version for the benefit of the five major presidentiables, any one of whom could take the presidency.…

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Social market economy, atbp for the presidentiables

Wednesday, 19 January 2022 09:34 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

WITH intermittent snowfall generating outside temperature around the low teens and with Omicron lurking about this small farming community, more time has been allotted to reading posts of my friends on social media networks Facebook, Messenger and Viber, comfortably nestled…

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Traveling in the time of Covid

Wednesday, 12 January 2022 09:23 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

CUSTOMARILY, I write a column or two while on Christmas holiday. These are fundamentally upbeat as I travel with my family and grandkids like we did years back. Some excerpts: "I have now experienced more than seven decades worth of…

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Santa Claus died this Christmas!

Wednesday, 05 January 2022 09:21 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

WHEN coronavirus hyphenated 2019, owning it, many thought Covid-19 a passing global health anomaly, until China reluctantly admitted that the virus shared a genetic code with the dreaded severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that killed countless of its citizens in…

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The Sun Tzu of Philippine politics?

Wednesday, 29 December 2021 06:38 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

WITH what is developing in the political scene President Duterte appears to be just a partial lame duck. His failure to field a presidential ticket, first time ever for a political party in power, caused chiefly by his own bumbling…

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Not a requiem but a canticle

Wednesday, 22 December 2021 06:42 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

IN my Dec. 8, 2021, column, in the section "The rape of PDP-Laban," I anticipated the withdrawal of Duterte from the Senate race: "The Cusi-DU30 faction was stripped of a presidential and vice-presidential ticket, inducing similarly inclined candidates whose options may just…

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A taste of pastoral America and local autonomy

Wednesday, 15 December 2021 06:52 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

UNLESS more earth-shaking developments on the Philippine political front appear, this column will digress to chronicle life in and around suburban Baltimore, Maryland, where I am currently carving out the last leg of my professional career — grandfatherhood — not…

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The wrath of the son of God, the rape of the PDP-Laban, atbp.

Wednesday, 08 December 2021 06:58 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

IN the weeks I have been ensconced in a sprawling farmhouse in a bucolic community with gentrified neighbors miles apart where horses are paddocked and cattle enclosed within corrals with wild deer roaming about freely, I find myself puttering around…

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