Viewpoints

An mga babasahon ngunyan na Domingo mga pagirumdom kan satong katungdan sa kinaban – na magin asin pati ilaw sa kinaban. An asin nagtatao nin namit sa pagkakan.

The tragedy of people power is that people in power forget the people and the people forget their power. The first part, that of people in power forgetting the people, is nowhere more glaring than in the reaction of Communications Development and Strategic Planning Secretary Ricky Carandang

If the Aquino government really wants to solve the problem of hunger and poverty, it should exercise its “political will” in the right direction: toward defending the rights and interest of the poor majority and the general public.

A Porsche. Worth 4.5 million pesos. A bachelor. With his own money. But a President, the Father of an impoverished People.

Rome has recognized a miracle attributed to the late Pope John Paul II’s intercession: the healing of a French nun, Marie Simon-Pierre, from Parkinson’s disease—the same illness that the late Pope endured in his last years. Pope Benedict XVI has set JP II’s beatification on May 1.

Dakulang kapyestahan na naman ngunyan sa bilog na nasyon. Ngunyan satong seneselebrar an kapyestahan kan Sto. Nino. Saro sa mga bantog na debosyon nin mga Pilipino.

The recent showing of our football national men’s team in the AFF Suzuki Cup where they got into the semifinals has put football in the national consciousness. But the reality is that our country only moved up one slot to the 150th spot in the latest Dec. 2010 FIFA world rankings. Yes, that’s how far we have to go if we want to see our team playing in the World Cup Finals scheduled for 2014 in Brazil.

PANAHON NA SUBUOT KAN MGA bagong midya: mga sagurong nin komunikasyon sa panahon na haros an gabos ginigibo nang elektroniko, digital asin computerized. Sinasabing ginigibo kaining orog na kaskas an paglipat asin riribayán nin impormasyon.

If Filipinos had dreamed that public health care may improve under the new Aquino government, which packaged itself as an agent of change with a “health for all” agenda during the election campaign, its 2010 performance would come as a nasty shock. The recently signed national budget and the cuts it inflicted on public health spending for 2011 signify the opposite of change.

It’s a New Year! As always, we look to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for his traditional message for January 1 – World Day of Peace. This time he focuses on “Religious Freedom, the Path to Peace.”

Some people have New Year’s Resolutions and some people buy round fruits. If I may borrow a classic comment from Cristy Fermin who is consistent with her abhorrence of Kris Aquino, which I share: Kris is someone who, it seems does not have New Year’s resolutions. The punch line is this: kaya si Kris inuulit niya ang sarili na parang kasaysayan.

The pope’s message to the cardinals sitting around him at the Vatican may be a worthwhile call to reflection for those old men. But, if as they trooped out of the Sala Regia, they looked through some of those windows that Pope John XXIII opened to the world they may have seen that there are rays of sunlight out there.