- Sunday, January 24, 2010, 20:01
- Elections, Society
Philippine blogosphere commentator par excellence Mr Joe America is on a roll! Over at FilipinoVoices.com, he adds yet another very insightful set of ideas (now in the form of a really hard question) to the national "debate" with regard to the campaign of runaway hit presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III:
Mr. Aquino's strings: parents' legacies, church, ...
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- Saturday, November 14, 2009, 4:49
- Elections
our political practice is more oriented towards coalitions; and the coalitions, too, require time to hammer out a common platform as the basis of uniting to support specific candidates. The broader the coalition, the longer and more complicated the consensus process required to arrive at a platform becomes.
In
making the above assertion, the Noted Blogger, Mr.
Manuel L. Quezon III, attempts to ...
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- Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 16:16
- Media, Politics
Over at
Barrio Siete, a
commentor issued a challenge to another commentor that illustrates an aspect of the Philippine National "Debate" that is a Filipino favourite and a cherished tradition of our "democracy" -- gossipping about who thy neighbour planeth to vote for.
but then again, what are those people who claim to be intelligent, what are they doing? how bout you guys, i ...
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- Sunday, November 8, 2009, 19:40
- Politics, Society
From Patricia Evangelista's
Jesus in Yellow on the Inquirer.net:
In a nation where government responsibility has shifted to the media, and calls for aid are directed to newsroom desks instead of the hotlines of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, this sort of move isn’t particularly surprising. A united GMA7 and ABS-CBN may seem like the best of metaphors for a united nation, but it ...
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