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 [...]

Justice Sec. Raul Gonzales may be forgiven if he was just being tactless. But he was being obnoxiously tactless when he blamed the death of Julia Campbell, a US Peace Corp volunteer, on Julia herself. In trying to sound cocky or perhaps intellectual, he only managed to insult the sensibilities of both Americans and Filipinos, [...]

That hostage-taking drama last Wednesday had only 3 elements to it: senseless, stunned and stupid. Senseless was the act of Armando “Jun” Ducat when he took hostage a busload of children and teachers of his own day-care center. He demanded no ransom and only used this terror-tactic to air his grievances about government corruption and [...]

On the way a man jumped in and tried to snatch her bag. The student resisted. He pulled out a handgun and shot her in the chest. She was only 19 years old.