BDP, expanded, not defunded

TODAY marks the 54th anniversary of the signing of Presidential Proclamation No. 1081 by the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., placing the entire Philippines...

MLD, blame NGCP not MORE

INDEED, this ongoing nuisance has taken on a life of its own, becoming a daily irritant. But the problem is largely induced by the...

Talking ‘One Iloilo, One Rate, One Service,’ etc.

IT WAS supposed to be smooth sailing once the legal requirements in Congress had been sorted out — and it does seem to be...

Talking ‘piss talks’, revisited

TODAY is supposed to be National Heroes Day, which is quite ironic — even hilarious — considering that no single official national hero has...

Talking IGNITE, MORE Power, etc.

OF COURSE, we are talking about IGNITE Power, a joint venture company between Prime Electric Holdings Inc. and Manny Pacquiao’s MP Holdings Inc., and...

The kids are not alright, revisited and remastered

HERE WE go again. It looks like the so-called “useful idiots” at the University of the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas, and other...

‘Useful idiots’

IT’S NOT that we have a shortage of these “useful idiots.” Our colleges and universities—particularly the University of the Philippines and some state-funded institutions—seem...

From crisis to success

AT HIS fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced his support for a proposed amendment to the Electric Power...

‘Ibagsak’…

HERE WE go again. Another presidential State of the Nation Address (SONA), and, right on cue, the usual suspects emerge: pseudo-communists, “useful idiots,” and...

Talking power interruptions

THIS IS in light (pun intended) of the spate of Red Alerts, Yellow Alerts, and Manual Load Droppings that have plagued Panay, Iloilo City,...