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December 21, 2010

Each living day we destroy a significant building and put up one more unnecessary deceiving source of material convenience, we sever a link to the past and assure ourselves a terrible rupture from a future that will have meaning for us all rather than a one-sided contribution to the coffers of a government that is local in the limited sense of that word.

December 21, 2010

“Simbang Gabi, simula ng Pasko sa puso ng lahing Pilipino,” thus goes a favorite carol, which resonates the joyous experience of Christmas in our country.

December 20, 2010

After suffering for nine years under the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Filipino people went out en masse to trash her candidates and reject what she represents when they voted last May 2010.

December 14, 2010

Then – and even now perhaps – it was never kitsch to sing a song like “Winter Wonderland”: Sleigh bells are you listening/In the lane, snow is glistening. It becomes even mystical: In the meadow we can build a snowman/And pretend he’s Parson Brown.” Capping this colonial experience, it calls that Later on, we’ll conspire/As we dream by the fire.” A fireplace!

December 14, 2010

If the Aquino administration is really serious about holding the Arroyo family and their allies accountable for the crimes they committed against the Filipino people, it could not dilly-dally about it nor could it put a glove to the arm of justice.

December 14, 2010

It is ironic that he would not wait in a season that is all about waiting. The word “advent” means “coming,” but the Lord does that. Our part in the season is waiting “in joyful hope” to welcome his coming. And not just in this season.

December 14, 2010

EVERY NOW AND THEN, I would hear murmurs of queries on when train services to Bicol will resume. Most of these queries morph into desires and nostalgia to see the classic iron horse back clanging and honking along the tracks of our region.

December 14, 2010

On December 10, 2010, the world dedicated the celebration of human rights day to all “human rights defenders who act to end discrimination.”

December 6, 2010

The 8th of December in the Catholic calendar is Immaculate Conception, a mystery of infinite density that non-Catholics would find allure in. Years and years ago, in 1941, this tremendous mystery, however, vanished with the skies filled by what were called then enemy planes.

December 6, 2010

“No Santa Claus!  Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever.  A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”

December 6, 2010

Clearly, there is a double standard in the administration of justice in the case of the Oakwood mutineers and that of the Morong 43.

December 6, 2010

An ebanghelyo ngunyan nag-aalingaw-ngaw kan boses ni Juan sa disyerto: “andamon an dalan kan Kagurangnan. Tanoson an saiyang mga aagihan.”  Asin nagpadagos pa sya: “Mga aki kan rimuranon, sisay an nagsabi na magdulag kamo sa maabot na kaungisan? Kaya magbunga kamo sosog sa pagbakli.”

December 5, 2010

My appreciation for another budget airline servicing the Manila-Naga route rapidly turned to disgust after five cancelled flights in just two months.

November 29, 2010

This act of bringing into the salon of good taste and civility a word that used to belong to the universe of the obscene does not mean the word easily loses its racy and wicked roots.

November 29, 2010

In order to clarify what the faithful might perceive as a change in the position of the Church on the use of condoms, the Archdiocese of Caceres issues this statement.

November 28, 2010

Yaon na naman kita sa bagong taon in liturhiya. Inaapod ining Taon A. An pinakaenot na Domingo kan Taon iyo an Enot na Domingo nin Adbyento.

November 28, 2010

In fine, tourism is local, not national. And local is about being ourselves in our best.

November 28, 2010

The Great Condom Debate has entered Round Two. Now it looks like Pope Benedict XVI has really said something he has never said before. That would be news.

November 28, 2010

KUN AN IMPLIKASYON kan surat ni Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa ki Sipocot Vice-Mayor Beth Abergos iyo an padagos nang pagpaontok kan Libmanan-Cabusao Dam Project, tibaad panahon naman tanganing hanapon ta an mga pastidyong maysala

November 21, 2010

The way we call each other now resolves a long and interesting debate about kinship. The old debate was between the search for the universals in human relations and that which saw in the terms we used to address each other the trait of languages – fluid and symbolic.

November 21, 2010

The Truth Commission should consider the report by Human Rights Watch on the Maguindanao Massacre and the Ampatuans and other warlords, which was released a few days ago. Entitled, “‘They Own the People’: The Ampatuans, State-Backed Militias, and Killings in the Southern Philippines,” the report also implicates former Pres. Macapagal-Arroyo...

November 21, 2010

Manila –Aside from further bloating the debt burden, Aquino’s PPP thrust will also facilitate increased corporate takeover of government roles and at the expense of public interest

November 21, 2010

Yaon na kita sa pinakahuring Domingo kan Kalendaryo Liturhiko. Asin sa sunod na Domingo, mapoon na naman kita nin bagong taon sa paagi kan Enot na Domingo nin Adbyento.

November 15, 2010

The meeting about to take place in Seoul of Heads of States and Government of the world's twenty-two leading economies together with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Organization, the Presidency of the European Union and some regional Organizations, as well as the leaders of various specialized Agencies, is not only of global importance but also clearly expresses the significance and responsibility which Asia has acquired on the international scene at the beginning of the 21st century.