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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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The 'China candidate' and US electoral interventions

Wednesday, 01 December 2021 09:17 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

BETWEEN Marcos and the Chinese candidate, whom do you choose? This query was a private message sent by a reader of my column. Obviously a Bongbong Marcos fan or a longtime Marcos loyalist, he tried to make a case for…

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Political permutations — 'last two jueteng' combinations

Wednesday, 24 November 2021 10:54 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

LAST week, I wrote about the mini saga of Sara Duterte-Carpio that started on Duterte's midterm when the intimations and the whispering of her succeeding the father as heir-apparent began to reverberate first among the political cognoscenti in Davao City;…

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