Toxic Politics

One thing our current Philippine administration is sadly lacking in the hands of this Marcos-Duterte tandem is accountability and transparency. So much spending and borrowing under their helm — confidential funds, intelligence funds, wealth funds. Bleeding the country and its citizens dry — squeezing blood from stone. They jet set…

Back to the question we considered a few days ago: Put a woman in charge of a country and does that automatically mean all will be well? ( Click here to have a read of my New European piece on the subject.) No, it aint necessarily so. As I said…

“Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya sa pagkadalisay at pagkadakila gaya ng pag-ibig sa tinubuang lupa? Aling pag-ibig pa? Wala na nga, wala.” Which translates to: ‘What love can surpass purity or greatness like love of country? None.’ The poem Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa (Love for One’s Homeland) was written…

Two political thoughts: Speaking as an American liberal … 1. Let’s give Senator Flake a little credit for putting himself in the middle of all this. He may not vote the way we want him too. He may not be as adamant as we’d like him to be about calling…

Dante has it right. The final, deepest level of hell is reserved for traitors, betrayers and oath-breakers (the most famous inmate, Judas Iscariot). Now enter Trump. What happened this morning in Helsinki is a national embarrassment on so many levels. I ranted on Twitter this morning that #45 flipped a…