Its never been a question of evidence or eloquence but where your bread is buttered. And for most congressmen, the butter comes from the general direction of the Pasig river.

My sources ...

Reagan came to office by running a well disciplined campaign that tried as much as possible to stay away ...

October 24, 2008

Dear Joc-Joc,

Allow me to call you Joc-Joc as you have been known in the media and by many Filipinos too. As of this morning of the 24 ^th of October, 2008, news about your lawyer petitioning the Supreme Court to issue a Temporary ...

He’s the American version of Mang Pandoy, the Filipino everyman trotted out by the organizers of the 1992 presidential ...

Queen Sirikit attended the funeral of a slain protestor and even donated a million baht to the families of the protestors.

Filipinos everywhere should share the concerns of the Thai ...

For weeks in 2006, thousands of well-to-do urban residents massed in the streets demanding –and eventually getting—through the intervention of the military– the resignation of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The PM had been accused of corruption and faced the equivalent of a plunder trial.

Unfortunately for the ...

In an electrifing speech before the Republican convention, Palin hit all the right notes. The not-so-subtle digs at Barack Obama and the esposual of old fashoined small town family values, creationism, and unconditional support for ...

(From luwaran.com, the MILF website)

Reality Check
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As we inch closer to 2010, the it looks as if the Palace is making one last attempt to extend the term of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and this time they’ve learned from their mistakes.

You see, unlike last time when the attempt to shift to a parliamentary form of government was clearly nothing more than ...

During the press conference held by the company, the vice president Sally Buaron, ...

Witnesses say the kidnappers dragged Burgos into maroon Toyota Revo with plate number TAB 194. The Revo, along with two other vehicles used by the kidnapperS—a maroon ...

In a recent interview, Albay Governor and former stock market analyst Joey Salceda put the different pieces of the global economic puzzle together to explain why food prices are so high. Taking the core of his analysis, adding bits and pieces from other experts like UA&P ...

She did not notify Congress and provisions ...

Seven countries claim ownership of the disputed Spratly Islands, just off of Palawan. China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malsysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines all claim to own part or all of the Spratlys. These overlapping claims have been a source of tension over the years ...

I mean the guy who’s bright idea it was to (allegedly) kidnap and possibly liquidate Jun Lozada when he got back from Hong Kong. It added just enough fuel to the fire ...

In the ZTE story, Jun Lozada and Romy Neri tried to play ball with the powers-that-be and as long as they did they were fine. But when they began to talk about the corruption in the ZTE National Broadband deal, security forces surrounded their homes, shadowed them, harasssed ...

I suspect he will make more enemies after he testifies. He certainly ...

The chicken is held down while its neck is pulled away from the body, strecthing it out. The feathers on its neck are plucked. A knife is then taken to the neck, and as its head is held tightly, the knife slices clean through the neck, severing it from ...

Lozada has first hand knowledge of many of the events ...

When Congress resumes sessions at the end of the month, the Senate is expected to quickly resume hearings on the ZTE Broadband deal. A former associate of Romulo Neri, Jun Lozada, who was brought in by Neri as a consultant ...

The more I dig, the more confusing it gets.

I don’t know enough about physics or forensics to refute or agree with the conclusions of the Inter Agency Task Force, but they did take me down there and showed me where the bomb was supposed ...

The Arroyo regime and its supporters are condemning him for having the temerity to call for President Arroyo’s resignation in the manner in which he did, while the anti-Arroyo forces stayed away because they thought he was doomed to fail or they didn’t agree with ...

Metro Manila police chief Geary Barrias says Akbar was the target.

Barrias says the bomber was familiar with Akbar’s routine ...

Abalos said he would devote his time in the coming months to redeeming his name against accusations that he illegally brokered the ZTE Broadband deal.

In line with this, ...

He said, under oath, that sometime before April, Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos offered him P200 million to endorse or nominate ZTE Corporation’s proposal. He says he refused the offer and later on relayed ...

I say hastily organized because it was clear that neither of the two secretaries were prepared to answer even the most basic questions from ...

At today’s senate hearing, Mendoza confirmed that he, Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos, First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, and Joey De Venecia were indeed in Wack Wack Golf Club sometime after mid-March of this year. He says ...

Speaker Joe De Venecia was scheduled to fly to Rome today to meet ...

The national interest is foremost in the current Senate inquiry on the proposed national broadband network. My son appeared before the joint Senate hearings in his own right as a stockholder of the Amsterdam Holdings, Inc.

Senator Ping Lacson thinks he knows who ordered the ISAFP to wiretap Virgilio Garcillano. While he admits at this point that his suspicions are based on circumstantial evidence, he follows these circumstances ...

For those of us in our air conditioned offices and white collar jobs, ...