Three-Week Philippine History in my Home By Marilyn Rayray APRIL 16, 7 PM, I was behind our door ready to ring the bell when I heard my 10-year old daughter asking her father to help her out on something. She sounded so excited that I heard her repeatedly saying, “Please,…

Love, Truth & Humility in Politics By S. Bill Jimenez THE CAMPAIGN SEASON is on high gear and politicians are up and busy selling their political agenda. To gain political advantage and ensure election victory, some of them resort to nasty and dirty tactics and phony innuendos. We often hear…

Battle Royale: 2010 By Manuel Biason CLAD in brightly colored shirts, they come like celebrities invading every inhabited spot of the islands. They talk, they smile, they shake hands and leave. They are the seven men and a lady dying and vying to become the chief executive of the nation….

Are we seriously considering a mentally challenged person to be our President? By Renato Beato To My Fellow Filipinos, Like many of you, I was initially enchanted by the Cory Magic and entertained the notion that a Noynoy Aquino presidency would be a great step towards restoring order, honesty, and…

By Santago B. Villafania Balangon na Ngaran amingaw kon naamper agano so imbuas na liwawa’d letakan ‘langalang a linmimata’y banua ta bigta ton nanengneng so lakseb tan say amaligaygay mon pagew

DEAD FISH: a recipe for a weekend with friends By Rex Catubig It was one of those times when the soul grows restless and pines for release. Just like when you had eaten too much and your stomach feels bloated and you go for a walk to ease the queasiness….

Balancing Negative and Positive Forces By S. Bill Jimenez MAKE a lemonade. This is a metaphor on dealing with a negative force in life by making it into a more positive usage. We must learn to balance negative and positive forces. Electricity is produced by the combination of negative and…

Indivisible and not absolutized By Fr. Roy Cimagala THESE were two ideas that got stuck in my mind as I read Pope Benedict’s advanced message for the 2010 World Day of Peace, to be given on New Year’s Day. It’s a message dedicated to our duty to protect the whole…

Jueteng in Western Pangasinan To Chief PNP Jesus Verzosa, Dear Sir: Ano na po ba ang ang nangyari sa ANTI JUETENG CAMPAIGN ng PNP sa bansa natin? Namamayagpag po ang jueteng sa buong lalawigan ng Pangasinan. Mula 3 hanggang 4 na beses na sila magsagawa ng bola sa loob ng…

The Tsunami (Contributed by Nida Rofe, as lifted from “History’s Worst Decisions”… and the people who made them.  Illustrated edition – Stephen Weir.) ‘It won’t happen to me.’ It is the cry of the unprepared everywhere. But in the case of earthquake and volcanoes, it will. It’s the way the…