Filipinos are shocked and are raging inside. And we have been waiting for three days for arrests to be made. But all we are hearing are sound bites from Malacañang. GMA is talking tough but nothing is happening. Perhaps she can do nothing after helping to create the monster that is the Ampatuan clan. They [...]

DOJ Sec. Raul Gonzalez, whose senility is getting the better of him as each day passes, must want to be no. 1 Twerp of the Year for 2009 (he holds no. 6). He’s now advocating that top officials of the PDEA also go on leave after his own prosecutors went on leave. Let’s see now, [...]

In a previous blog I had hoped that Antonio Trillanes’ idealism would make him a good senator in spite of my doubts that he was merely a pawn. Read it here. Now, I’m convinced, without a shadow of doubt, he’s a pawn. His latest misadventure establishes that. His financiers probably used him like a guinea [...]

If you’re pro-Erap and believe that Joseph "Erap" Estrada is innocent, there’s nothing else you can do but pray for him. He himself got into this mess. Move on and help build this benighted country of ours. If you’re anti-Erap, don’t gloat. This episode is an embarrassment to our country. We’ve convicted a former President. [...]

Filipinos are generally peaceful. We don’t read news about a Filipino suddenly waking up hating the world and then shooting up a school or climbing a building to snipe people on the streets at random with a rifle. Yet, what we’re known for is violence when elections come around. This is the best proof that [...]