RP Elections 2010

The action star turned president. The nocturnal president. The poster boy of corruption. The academically challenged president.
Joseph Estrada, “Erap” to his millions of tangahanga, suffered miserably in the past. He has been scraped off his office, cutting short his six-year Presidential into two and a half. He has been jailed and convicted. But he [...]

When President Obama decided to release what is touted as the Torture Memos, he was faced with a dilemma: to hold or not to hold those who authorized the memos accountable.
There are those who argue that President Obama should, because it’s an affront to the basic law of the land, the Constitution. On the other [...]

In her term as president of the Philippine Republic, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has had quite a few run-ins with infamy — the “Hello, Garci” brouhaha, corruption cases (that have not been resolved thus far), and now the Maguindanao massacre, which will remain in history as a blight of shame on our nation. Only one of these [...]

Today, as the family of Corazon C. Aquino bury their matriarch, the Filipino nation mourns the loss of the country’s symbol of People Power, the restorer and defender of democracy.
As President of the Republic, Cory was far from perfect. But, her actions and decisions were always guided by hard and fast principles. It was ever [...]

I had wanted to post something to contribute to Blog Action Day 2009, but after reading Marocharim’s entry, I decided to link to his post instead. What he has published is what I believe in as well, through and through.

I am against Con-Ass. I oppose Charter Change. Not because I am an oppositionist, [...]

[The following is an article I submitted to the UP Law Internet Society for publication in their magazine, "DIGITAL" (Digest of Information Technology and the Law).]
The blogosphere––or the newfangled world of Web-based publishing––together with the surfeit of social networking services such as Facebook.com and Plurk.com, has virtually changed the landscape of today’s news-reading and -gathering, [...]

Why do politicians behave the way they do?
Politicians behave for a number of reasons. Some are driven by ideology, a category to which left-leaning politicians belong. Others feel so deeply about an issue, to the point of risking an electoral defeat. This is what exactly happened to Ralph Recto, principal author of E-VAT, who lost [...]

Here’s a few words of wisdom, taken from The Word God Spells. It is not necessarily about religion, but about how we can see the words of Christ being relevant in our daily lives.

Our Lord was warning His disciples against the teachings of the Pharisees and the bad influence of King Herod. Both were proud [...]