G Spot
Pause
By Ermin Garcia Jr. AFTER more than 69 years filling up the pages of Punchline, started by my father in 1956, I find the need to pause, not to end, possibly to reset, and hopefully give it more purpose. This could be the reason why our Heavenly Creator deliberately…
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May 20, 1966, a non-event day in Dagupan
By Ermin Garcia Jr. ON May 21, 1966, the country was agog. It was a day after Ermin Erfe Garcia, a community journalist in Dagupan City, was shot and killed in his Sunday Punch editorial office. It took then President Ferdinand E. Marcos to issue a “shoot-to-kill’ order against…
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Lessons from 2025 elections
By Ermin Garcia Jr. LIKE many other pundits out there who’ve offered their points of view on how the 2025 midterm elections went, permit me to share my thoughts. It’s encouraging that there has been no claim of grand-scale cheating via our new automated counting machines so far. However,…
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Can LIFE survive without INC?
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE endorsement of the whole Unliserbisyo team of Belen Fernandez-Bryan Kua by the Iglesia ni Cristo must have come as a big shock to the LIFE barkada and mother-son team of Celia and Brian Lim. It will be recalled that son Brian arrogantly warned of…
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More unliperwisyo from epaLIFE?
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE epaLIFE team led by the Lim mother (Celia) – son (Brian) – daughter (Irene) seeking elective posts in Dagupan City is truly living up to its name as a barkada in this campaign. See its members strut their wares laced with their usual arrogance…
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