LML Polettiques (363)

MANILA IS NOT OUR ENEMY!

Friday, 26 May 2017 10:41 Written by
To all CDP dues paying members of good standing; volunteer members; Young Centrist Union (YCU); Centrist Democratic Sectors; and Centrist Democrats all over the country.MANILA IS NOT OUR ENEMY! We have allies in Metro-Manila, Luzon and Visayas as we have…

Political chameleons

Thursday, 25 May 2017 08:50 Written by
IN May 2016, the Deegong ran with just a handful of PDP-Laban stalwarts; the current Senate President, the House Speaker and one or two nondescript candidates for Congress. But three weeks prior to the President-elect’s assumption to power, the LP…

I simply love Mocha!

Thursday, 18 May 2017 08:40 Written by
MY Mocha is just a little bit faultless; well, almost perfect. My wife Sylvia hates it when I show interest for Mocha. Last week, we celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary. On our way home from dinner, I had this urge…

My legitimate wife and girlfriends

Thursday, 06 April 2017 07:53 Written by
Part 1“Everyone does it, so what’s the problem?”Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, Philippine Star, March 31, 2017I HAVE to come clean too. I am a married man and I have a girlfriend. In fact, I have two girlfriends. I can justify this…

The New York Times vs the Philippines

Thursday, 30 March 2017 09:21 Written by
“President Rodrigo Duterte… a defiant crusader, willing to encourage the slaughter of thousands in the name of saving his nation from the scourge of drugs.“New York Times, March 21, 2017THIS is how a New York Times feature story last March…

A grand game of chess

Thursday, 23 March 2017 10:10 Written by
CHESS is a mind game of strategy between protagonists that involves tactical moves and counter-moves. And the winner purportedly is the one who thinks ahead by several moves.The Duterte presidency has been involved in an exciting game of chess of…

What happened to EDSA?

Thursday, 09 March 2017 06:49 Written by
Part 3FOR each of the groups that participated in EDSA, the expectations, hopes and aspirations which motivated them were diverse. Thirty-one years, the survivors may now have a better grasp of the event and a better appreciation of whether these…

I am EDSA, we are EDSA

Thursday, 02 March 2017 08:19 Written by
I WROTE last week in Part I of this series: “Today … 31 years after, I am again putting on paper my thoughts, a little bit more appreciative and perhaps a little bit more dispassionate about the events that transpired…
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