It was also a vote of confidence for Duterte By Al S. Mendoza THE Inquirer said it all. In its headline on Wednesday, May 15, the Inquirer bannered: “ADMIN BETS’ DOMINANCE SHOWS DUTERTE MAGIC.” The story said President Duterte’s allies took nearly all of the 12 slots in the senatorial race. In the early counting, only […]
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Voting is like buying a lotto ticket By Al S. Mendoza WE choose only 12 senators in tomorrow’s election, May 13. And yet, there are 62 candidates. Will the 50 losers sulk? Cry? That’s the trouble with most of us. Election has become almost a magnet that it attracts people to run like light to […]
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Villar topples Poe at No. 1; Go & Bato on the go By Al S. Mendoza CYNTHIA Villar is now No. 1. That’s the latest in the survey held from April 10 to 14—allegedly noncommissioned. If those surveyed were to vote one month before the May 13 senatorial election, Villa would be their first choice. […]
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What voting for Lapid’s chicharon bulaklak mean By Al S. Mendoza I vote wisely. Always. That I’d been doing since I started voting. In one of our drinking sorties, just very recently, Jake P. Ayson and I talked about it—voting wisely—for the umpteenth time. “Like you, I believe I always vote wisely come election time,” […]
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Stunningly, Inquirer gives Bong Go a free lift By Al S. Mendoza DID my eyesight deceive me? I guess not. There it was, as clear as day, the Inquirer story trumpeting Bong Go’s campaign sortie in Cagayan de Oro City. No, it was not totally about the campaign that got my attention, although Bong Go’s […]
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To be prayerful is to be friends to all By Al S. Mendoza WHAT is Palm Sunday again that we are observing today? It is a moveable feast preceding Holy Week and before Easter Sunday. It is, more significantly, a commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical […]
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Change Comelec to Coselec By Al S. Mendoza THERE is this new Comelec ruling riling one senatorial candidate no end. The rule, really, is as crazy as a rule preventing Steph Curry to stop firing threes because it is so easy for him to bury those shots. Of course, that rule does not exist in […]
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Modernize agriculture, mechanize it even By Al S. Mendoza THE water crisis has not only hit Metro Manila but practically the entire agricultural sector. Look at our rice fields and vegetable plantations. Many of them, if not the vast majority of them, have practically dried up due mainly to the absence of rains the past […]
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Time to scrap alcohol ban on election day By Al S. Mendoza INSTEAD of Comelec producing rules on: 1) The size of posters and tarpaulins for use by candidates;2) The amount of money to be spent by candidates; and,3) The removal of posters and tarpaulins “illegally” pasted/nailed/hung by candidates. It must scrap all of the above and persevere […]
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Sotto being put to a supreme test By Al S. Mendoza TITO Sotto, the upright Senate president, has not stopped amazing us. He has stood his ground all this time. Idol for all seasons. His stance has always been infectious. He doesn’t give a hoot to any brickbat hurled his way. He ignores destructive critique […]