Giving up the WPS is not a good look for the Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on April 30, 2018 · 65 Comments 

By Joe America ”What can we do about it?” we hear as top government officials cede the West Philippine Sea to China. “They are so big and strong and we are small and poor. We can’t send Filipinos to war. They’d be slaughtered!” This ‘woe is me’ argument totally misses the point and substitutes emotionalism … Continue reading →

Category China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, USA/Americans

The Philippines is a nation with no purpose

Posted by JoeAm on April 25, 2018 · 69 Comments 

By Joe America We are overwhelmed with disturbing news, social media angers, dirty politics that we can’t control, irrational thinking from everywhere, and information that is so frustrating we can only think in short, angry key strokes. We are going nowhere. Spinning our wheels. We have eloquent documents that people never read, like, for instance, … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Economy, Philippine Government

Mr. Chill

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on April 20, 2018 · 88 Comments 

by Wilfredo G. Villanueva He prepared well for the Bar Exams in 1999, and when an acquaintance who called by mobile phone read his name from a list faxed by the Supreme Court to the Department of Justice, he knew from the pit of his stomach that he would be number one because he had … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

Do Filipinos hate being Filipino?

Posted by JoeAm on April 9, 2018 · 109 Comments 

By Joe America It struck me as I was meandering through the thought forest about human rights that Filipinos hate Filipinos. They also hate themselves because they are, after all, Filipino. Now this is dangerous territory because I am white and some might view this as a racist commentary (even though Filipino is not a … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Hello, Yellow, Hello, Leah Navarro

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on April 4, 2018 · 62 Comments 

by Wilfredo G. Villanueva I don’t see much of my color nowadays. People power must have folded its EDSA One tent for shame of being called dilawan—choicest cuss word in the realm of the uncouth—but I’m sure anti-Marcos pro-Aquino Filipinos yearn for the time when it was politically correct to sport yellow. But not this … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Entertainment, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics