Jesse Robredo and the “Death Zones”
In this era of government ineptness, neglect, and corruption people search for role models who can show the difference. Robredo became one such model. Amidst the ostentatious and scandal-ridden lifestyle…
Election 2013: Horizontal and Vertical Expansion of Political Dynasties
ANALYSIS: The concentration, expansion, and consolidation of political dynasties over the past 100 years attests to the continuing hegemony of feudal politics, the absence of any form of real democracy,…
Hierarchy of needs
Marginal Note Felix ‘Boy’ Espineda, Jr., BicolToday.com The works of Abraham Maslow, the American psychologist, who developed the hierarchy of needs theory in the 1940s that deals with the understanding…
A (temporary) victory for free speech
In the 1936 case of Tañada versus Electoral Commission, the Supreme Court held that when the Court strikes down an act of any other branch of government for being contrary…
The Brutuses in Politics
Editorial: The Brutuses in Politics (BicolToday.com/08-Oct-2012) “Et tu, Brutus” (And, also you, Brute), wailed Julius Caesar in shock, after getting stab by his close trusted friend Brutus inside the Rome Senate…
Tupada
Marginal Note Felix ‘Boy’ Espineda, Jr., BicolToday.com Not contented with the cockfighting at the license cockpit arena, aficionados of the game are having a field day to indulge their…
Keep RH Bill Out & Pinoy Clergy Just Pray
Keep RH Bill Out & Pinoy Clergy Just Pray Let Alone God’s Hands Be Potter in Women’s Wombs By Emil S. Saavedra You are the lyre in Jesus’ hands. He alone of…
Lower House Handling of CamSur Partition A Ruse
Open Letter to Senator Marcos: Lower House Handling of CamSur Partition A Ruse By Emil S. Saavedra Dear Senator Bongbong Marcos, and Honorable Members of the…
SONA 2012: Reporting housekeeping and half-truths
The 2012 SONA was selective in the data it presented and dealt in half-truths, A few stand out for the misleading picture of the economy that they seek to create…
Father Forgets. . . an article by W. Livingston Larned
Marginal Note Felix ‘Boy’ Espineda, Jr., BicolToday.com I am sharing this article which has seen numerous reprints for us Father’s to know better.It made rounds for it strikes an echoing…
