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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Just Another Day

Another ‘useful idiot’

I’LL JUST park this here: a “useful idiot” is a pejorative term describing a person who believes they are fighting for a noble cause...

Beneficial, profitable — and MORE…

I AM quite certain this question has been on the minds of many residents of “I Am Iloilo City”: over the past six years...

MORE Power in retrospect

I SUPPOSE it’s de rigueur to begin with this greeting: Happy New Year! This is my first column five days into the year, and...

Irrelevant and obsolete, etc.

INDEED, we are once again talking about communism — an ideology long rendered obsolete and irrelevant, yet still embraced and espoused by the so-called...

A 57-year-old irritant… revisited

EXACTLY 57 years and four days ago, Jose Maria Sison, also known as Joma Sison, founded the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)—a far-left,...

‘The consumer wins’

INDEED, in business, whenever there is competition, the consumer ultimately wins. Competing establishments are compelled to offer better products and services to attract customers,...

An epic failure

AS EXPECTED, the much-ballyhooed “Trillion Peso March” and “Baha sa Luneta 2.0” held last November 30 turned out to be a dismal failure of...

Finally, ‘One Iloilo, One Rate, One Provider’

INDEED, the dream is finally moving toward reality. What began as a vision of MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) — “I Am...

Makabayan bloc, hoax bomb threats, rallies etc.

A WEEK ago, a spate of hoax bomb threats spread across Western Visayas schools and forcing evacuations, class suspensions, and heightened police deployment as...

‘Red-tagged’ by Joma, etc.

ONE OF the most abused and favorite phrases of the usual suspects — pseudo-communists and useful idiots — is “red tagging.” It has become...