PUNCHITERIA
Editorial Cartoon
The hard part NOW that the electorate has decided on their barangay leaders, now comes the hard part. How to make them accountable for their barangays’ funds as may be shown by their adopted projects… or absence of projects. When barangays elections used to be boring and hardly considered…
Editorial
The planned massacre of The PUNCH By Ermin Garcia Jr. IN the land of warlords, journalists are disposed of randomly with bullets and are buried with the backhoe. The Maguindanao massacre proved that. In the land of the greedy privileged few, journalists who wave the press freedom flag and…
Punchline
Making the system survive By Jun Velasco “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people,” Abraham Lincoln WE should be able to learn a few and probably obvious lessons from the recent barangay elections. No doubt, the exercise was full of holes. Some critics…
Think about it
P-noy’s descending popularity By Gonzalo Duque HAPPY Holidays! No, not exactly, we mean, happy reunion with our loved ones who have already departed to their saintly lives. You know, on All Saints Day, this columnist has always had the personal experience of feeling the blessings of our departed parents….
Playing with Fire
Cone does it again, but Pingris is my hero By Al S. Mendoza THE beauty of the last championship clash in the PBA is that, although San Mig Coffee and Petron Blaze were sister teams, they fought tooth-and-nail so to speak. It made Ramon S. Ang, the San Miguel…
General Admission
Let’s move on By Bebot Villar THANK God quiet na uli ang kapaligiran. Tapos na rin ang mga bangayan. Wala nang mga sumbong at pang- iistorbo sa cellphone. The people have spoken. Of course, may mga nag-celebrate at meron ding parang namatayan ang itsura dahil sa pagkatalo nitong Oct….
Deretsahan
Silence better than noise By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD TIME and again it has been proven that there are times that to be quiet is much better than to make noise, to observe silence is more prudent that to talk—especially so when the talk is neither asked for much…
