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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Come to Think of It

How will the next President contain China?

IN A LITTLE more than eight months there will be long queues to the Commission on Elections. Candidates for positions from town councilor to...

Fake rebellion

THE GREATEST war of this generation is the COVID pandemic. This calamity has taken a staggering number of lives, still growing by the day. It...

Is this a serious ‘Cha-cha’ effort?

THE DUTERTE administration never hid its desire to change the Constitution. Right off the bat it advertised its bias for a federal form of...

Staggering police incompetence

INITIAL police pronouncements declared without qualification that the case of Christine Angelica Dacera was a rape-slay perpetrated by a gang of 11 men. Public vilification...

Will PSG head resign?

SENATOR Richard Gordon has suggested that the commander of the Presidential Security Group resign his position after publicly admitting the inoculation of his troops...

Command without responsibility

IT WAS unusual for President Rodrigo Duterte to break his weekend in Davao and meet with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of...

Video justice

WE HEARD there is chatter among some lawyers who are toying with “temporary insanity” as a defense for a police master sergeant who is...

Debasement of impeachment

SUPREME Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen’s former colleagues and friends have expressed support for the magistrate as he battles an impeachment complaint endorsed by...

Laying the basis for takeover?

IN A MEMORANDUM issued last Dec. 4, the National Telecommunications Commission directed all public telecommunications entities and internet service providers to ensure very little...

Tandem to beat

AMID questions about the President’s health because of the scarcity of his public appearances, his chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo expressed his desire for...