Research and Advocacy don’t mix By Sosimo Ma. Pablico In the scientific tradition, a researcher is expected to exclude his biases from his studies. However, some researchers seem to use their studies to find support for their own biases. For instance, there is this researcher who advocates the use of…
Just thinking By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There is one thing certain in Philippine politics, something that definitely no few people in different sectors of Philippine society ponder upon, seriously talk about and continuously make educated guesses on. This: How will the well known yet much distrusted incumbent national…
Torn between two lovers By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. EVERY time a Filipino boxer fights a Mexican pug, some of my friends who are boxing buffs pique on me, asking me whom I would pick to win the fight knowing that I’m half Mexican and half Filipino. It’s happening again,…
Beneath the beauty By Glaiza Bernadeth Pinto I had traveled to a good number of places here in the Philippines. I had gone to Baguio, Manila, Tarlac, Iloilo, Aklan, Capiz, Cotabato and Zamboanga. And now, I am in Pangasinan. Pangasinan is a beautiful province. Well, aside from its unique cuisine,…
Quartered! By Emmanuelle Rarely, actually almost never, do I write in the first person. This is one of the rare, actually almost never times. Not for the sole reason that the moment calls for the intervention of the first person, but. The moment calls for the intervention of the first…
It’s not all’s well that ends well By Ermin Garcia Jr. I welcome the news that residents of Sitio Camangaan in Barangay Mayombo in Dagupan finally relented and decided to help prosecute their neighbors who stole Dagupan Electric’s transformer that delivered electricity to their community. It took Decorp to see…
The puzzling ‘Energy Crisis’ By Gerry Garcia THIS energy crisis thing presently hounding us has left many among us scratching our heads over the question of which of the crises thing (or problem) is being shown us — the head or tail? In short, we are puzzled, starkly bewildered. From…
Rizal and Leonor’s love story bloomed and ended in Dagupan By Jun Velasco NEVER mind if Joey Salceda, the Albay governor and economic adviser of the President, can’t comb his hair properly. But what he told PGMA in last Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting was disturbing. Fact is Joey finds the country…
‘Cycles’ By Gonzalo Duque THE cheaper medicines law is now in hands of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Meaning, it’s now a law, and brod Pingkoy is now being watched to implement the new law. It is a major, innovative and sort of revolutionary law because it addresses the millions…
Boston means maim, murder & massacre By Al S. Mendoza WHO said basketball is just a game? Quick, scrap that slogan. By now, Kobe Bryant and his Lakers know that by heart. The NBA is Iraq, Afghanistan and Kenya. Abu Sayyaf even. In those territories, not just a battle you…
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