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September 2011

Monumental lapse in judgment

By | Punch Forum

Tiburon 27 Sept 2011   Re: Think about it “There’s a sucker born every minute”, P.T. Barnum The smartass of a driver who took more than a quarter of a million pesos from Jun Velasco his hard-earned moolah, and calling him crazy, is an overstatement. To claim this guy like…

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Monumental lapse in judgment

By September 28, 2011Punch Forum

Swinish

By | Punch Forum

Tiburon 25 Sept 2011   Re: Controversial building It’s a pig corrallll! This litson-looking building, is being built to accommodate the production of clones … a likealike The Benjie porkies. Why close to the water edge? The offering of one-of-a-kind Dagupan litson to those tourism … chumbolones … coming out…

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Swinish

By September 26, 2011Punch Forum

Editorial

By | Editorial, News

No more landfill excuses WE saw it happen in Smokey Mountain at the capital Metro Manila in 2000. Just last month, it was in Baguio City, touted as the Summer Capital of the Philippines. The man-made catastrophe of collapsing heaps of garbage from dumpsites, killing people and destroying homes, is…

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Editorial

By September 26, 2011Editorial, News

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

The PUNCH’s martial law issue   By Ermin Garcia Jr.  DATE: September 21, 1972. It was a Thursday and was supposed to be another routine day of writing stories, columns and editorial for The PUNCH’s September 24,1972 issue. On top of my mind then was to do a follow-up story…

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Punchline

By September 26, 2011Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

Give Filipino youth a new home By Jun Velasco “Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.”—Ausonius OFF HAND, we were in favor of the idea to scrap the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK). We changed our mind. Scrapping it is too harsh, too grave.  It’s a big slap on the Filipino youth.

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Think about it

By September 26, 2011Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

By | Archives, Opinion

“Daang matuwid” By Oscar V. Cruz, JCD MANY things in many ways have been said many times about the above cited alluring pre-election yell of the now Malacañang resident. Is there something more that need be discussed or disclosed about it? Yes, there is! This, with feeling: It is selective…

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Viewpoints

By September 26, 2011Archives, Opinion

Sports Eye

By | Opinion, Sports Eye

Ill-mannered Mayweather By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE the boxing aficionados saw the fight, a controversial fourth round knockout victory by Floyd Mayweather Jr. over reigning WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz. The one-two combination that Mayweather perfectly released and landed after the break drew an uproar from the boxing world….

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Sports Eye

By September 26, 2011Opinion, Sports Eye