Diosdado Macapagal, late President and father of the incumbent, lost his re-election bid to Ferdinand Marcos. He lost by landslide. His daughter, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, is bent on not duplicating that debacle. First, she allies herself and her party with that of Marcos crony Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco. She’ll be needing his party machinery and dollar moolahs. [...]

Someone once said that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” For Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco it’s, “I’ll screw you, you screw me and together let’s screw the nation.” There’s a better word than “screw,” but I wouldn’t want to offend the sensibilities of the growing readership of this humble blog. Gloria and Danding don’t only [...]

This is how the opposition politicians think: They seek to impeach Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr., one of the most trusted personalities in the public eye, and then want to nominate for the Presidency Fernando Poe, Jr., a popular actor but without any experience or intellect to merit his holding the highest office in the [...]

George W. Bush was the first US President since Dwight Eisenhower to address a joint session of the Philippine Congress. In 1960, when Eisenhower paid a state visit, he sat in an open sedan while Filipinos lined the streets enthusiastically waving at him with small flags. George W. Bush, on the other hand, sat in [...]

His visit will last only 8 hours, but the frenzy surrounding it will last for weeks or even months to come. For President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the visit of the quasi-American emperor is a needed boost to her presidency, her coming campaign and her worldwide image, notwithstanding that the image of George W. Bush worldwide is [...]