PUNCHITERIA
Editorial Cartoon
School of corruption AMIDST the hullaballoo in the continuing saga of the corrupted pork barrel, it was refreshing news that the congressional bicameral committee approved last week a measure postponing the Sangguniang Kabataan election set on October 28 alongside the barangay election. It was a good and timely move…
Editorial
The long 75 days By Ermin Garcia Jr. FINALLY after 75 days, a resolution was filed seeking to create a special committee that would investigate in aid of legislation reported irregularities in the city hall to the extent of establishing accountabilities of local officials. After 75 days of incessant…
Punchline
Can we love our enemy? By Jun Velasco “Whoever wants to be the first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many,” Mark 10:44-45 WE were spiritedly…
Think about it
Fr. Soc talks on good governance By Gonzalo Duque LAST Thursday, our LNU Dukes “massacred” UPANG-Phinma’s Flames in the hotly fought UCAAP games, 87-60! More exciting details on this in the other pages. Sports columnist Jess Garcia has the details. OK, analysts attribute the Dukes’ success to at least three factors:…
Playing with Fire
Why it has come to this, only God knows By Al S. Mendoza ALL this time that we scrounge for money to keep both ends meet, here are our politicians wallowing in cash. Aren’t all the elected our so-called servants? And, doesn’t P-Noy himself call us his boss? How…
General Admission
What now, Guv? By Bebot Villar WHAT’S happening? Nakaka-inip ang maghintay kung anong activity ang isusunod ng provincial government to sustain the anti-drug abuse campaign ng ni-launch nila. All of a sudden, natigil yata ang action nila. Wala na akong narinig na concrete program sa sinasabing pag-revitalize ng Provincial…
Deretsahan
Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (II Vatican Council, 21 November 1964) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD “Pope: Love over dogma”, dated 21 September 2013, thus proclaimed one of the local dailies, apparently echoing the statement of a foreign news agency in conjunction with the composite interview of Pope Francis….