Malacañang must be feeling beleaguered.
My favorite placard in last Monday’s Million People march in Luneta was the one held by a young man which said, “Janet, here na me…where na u?”
Concrete blocks or just rocks and corals?
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Malacañang, it turns out, doesn’t have barrels of pork. What it has are entire stockyards of meat that it dispenses to whomever it chooses, in the manner and the amounts that the President alone decides.
‘Endorsement may not be a crime but being a recipient of millions of money from PDAF is stealing money from the people. That’s plunder.’
The VFA is an agreement between the Philippines and the United States regarding the treatment of U.S. Armed Forces Visiting the Philippines. It was signed in 1998 by Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon and U.S. Ambassador Thomas Hubbard and ratified by the Philippine Senate.
Messages of faith and hope marked the observance of the International Day of the Disappeared in the Philippines.
No doubt, the Magdalo group of military officers and soldiers has come a long way from that early morning of July 27, 2003 when they jolted the nation with the protest they staged against Gloria Arroyo at Oakwood Hotel in the heart of Makati’s business district.
The Department of Foreign Affairs issued Monday a media briefer on the China-Asean Expo (CAEXPO) but skipped the issue that President Aquino was not informed that China had canceled as early as Aug. 23 his planned attendance at the event on Sept. 3.
Albert del Rosario, SONA 2013The fourth State-of- the- Nation Address by President Aquino is notable for the number of issues that he didn’t touch.