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JoeAmMar Roxas, Ping Lacson and Grace Poe
I’m early in the filtering process of trying to decide who would make a good presidential candidate to oppose the likely run of UNA’s Jejomar Binay for 2016. My thinking is a little thin at this point, but I have to start somewhere. So kindly allow me to think out loud . . . and … Continue reading
2016 Dream Team: Aquino and Aquino
We need a new approach. One of the things I wrestle with in my cross-cultural discovery trek is the apparent fact that an American style government overlaid on the Filipino hierarchical culture creates a lot of odd results. Like local mayors become dynastic warlords and the Congress gets packed with dynastic power-mongers, boxers, crybabies, plagiarists … Continue reading
Who Funds Bayan Muna?
When I think of political extremists in the Philippines I think of the left, NPA, Bayan Muna and the Communist Party of the Philippines. I don’t know if there is a right wing extremist group, per se. Readers may be able to enlighten me on that. Or perhaps the right presently occupies the seats of … Continue reading
Wolves, Hyenas and Jackals at the Door: UNA’s Possible Strategies in the Run Up to 2016
Guest Article by Andrew Lim The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) is a political party that aims to gain power in 2016 and beyond. Just like most parties in the Philippine landscape, the partnership is based on political opportunism: join forces with those who have the resources, the crowd pull and the organization to obtain power. … Continue reading
In Whom Do You Trust?
Do you have a copy of The Elements of Style by Strunk & White? Almost every professional writer who writes in American English has a copy of this gem, calling it by the authors’ names, as in “grab the old Strunk and White, eh?“. It is the bible of writing rules, laying waste to old stuffy … Continue reading
