By Al S. Mendoza   THOSE voting for Marcos Jr. are as blind as a bat. They don’t care about history. They don’t care about facts. They don’t love their country, the Philippines. The horrible facts and figures are screaming right in front of them. They hear, but don’t listen….

By Al S. Mendoza   THE old, unlamented Marcos produced fake war medals that, when exposed, haunted him till his dying day in 1989 in faraway Hawaii. Consumed by lupus, he didn’t even know he was in Hawaii. All along, he knew he was in Paoay, a town in Ilocandia…

By Al S. Mendoza    THE clubhouse talk has been about the surveys all this time. That’s because of Bongbong Marcos’ almost unbelievable streak of leading the surveys each time it’s done. In the eye of the survey storm are Pulse Asia (PA) and Social Weather Stations (SWS), arguably two…

By Al S. Mendoza    THE Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) was formed in 1982 mainly to unseat Ferdinand Marcos Sr. It was founded basically by the late, lamented Sen. Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel together with his fellow nationalists Ninoy Aquino and Lorenzo “Ka Tanny” Tanada, among others. For years…

By Al S. Mendoza   I have three friends with different presidential bets. One wants Bongbong Marcos. I ask him why Bongbong? “I have no reason,” says he.  “I just like him.” “Why no reason?” I ask him. “I don’t know,” says he. “Why do you like him?” “I don’t know,”…

By Al S. Mendoza   WHO says the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is losing its clout, popularity? Think again, fellas. Just minutes after Wilfred Uytengsu announced Alaska’s departure from the PBA after the ongoing Governors’ Cup, five prospective buyers immediately showed up. “I didn’t expect to receive an avalanche of…

By Al S. Mendoza   YEARS back, almost right after President Duterte became President in 2016, I said here that we should not immediately believe in every word he says. For, his mind is as fickle as the weather—to use a cliché. What he says this minute, he’d say the…

By Al S. Mendoza   I was rummaging through my files and look what I found. A story on Bongbong Marcos regarding the 1986 People Power revolution. Written by the eminent Fernando del Mundo, it appeared in the Inquirer issue of 2006, the year I retired from the Inquirer after…

By Al S. Mendoza   THE Comelec loves dwelling on controversies.  You can bet on that. Almost in every election, it crafts rules that almost always invite a rain of criticisms. Early on this year, it met a hail of bashes for raiding private properties to implement its “Oplan Baklas.” This…

By Al S. Mendoza   THE following was from the Inquirer column of Artemio V. Panganiban on Feb. 20, 2022. “…a post of former PCCG commissioner Ruben Carranza from his US enclave claims that Bongbong Marcos (BBM) could be arrested and jailed in the US for failing to pay his…