Getting from Katipunan to Greenhills took two-and-a-half hours. This was early evening of Monday. It had been raining intermittently in the afternoon—not furious downpours but relatively light ones. When I left Katipunan, it was only drizzling. It was a breeze getting through the street, but when I got to the bridge just past Ateneo everything stood still.
I simply cannot understand why columnist Conrado de Quiros keeps repeating the same tired arguments against resigned Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (Opinion, “Arrogance,” 6/10/13).
Shortly before Election Day, UNA put to the front of people’s minds what has been at the back of them. The 2013 elections were just a prelude to the 2016 presidential election.
I read with great interest Conrado de Quiros’ column titled “About time” (Inquirer, 4/23/13). His take on the honor conferred on President Aquino as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in the Leaders category is as insightful as his analyses of the other issues that he had tackled before.
If the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) had plotted it, it couldn’t have done a better job. By the time Team PNoy held its last rally in Amoranto Stadium last Friday, it was showing the cracks. Two of the senatorial candidates were frosty to each other. Or at least one was to the other, who was Loren Legarda toward Alan Peter Cayetano. Noticeably—all the reports noticed it—she refused to buss him in the cheek.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago had an interesting piece of advice for voters on the eve of elections. Don’t vote old, vote young. “I want young people in the Senate. I don’t like septuagenarians who are actually campaigning for wheelchairs. I’ve never loved these characters who live in a time warp.” The reports said she had people like [...]
That was an awe-inspiring story that came out in the Inquirer last Monday about Dante Tabunar. He is the 44-year-old who graduated from PUP at the top of his class. In every sense of the word, “top,” and in every sense of the word, “class.”
I remember reading a couple of books by Jose Ma. Sison in the early 1970s that told of why he and his group repudiated the Huks and formed the CPP-NPA in their place. The old party, Sison contended in a barbed tirade, committed the most egregious errors—it did not wage revolution in a “scientific” way—and consequently lost not just the battle but the war.
The Chief Justice herself, Ma. Lourdes Sereno, was aghast. She and Associate Justice Bienvenido Reyes were the only two justices who voted against the Supreme Court ruling that party-list groups need not represent the poor and marginalized.
Fr. Robert Reyes and Msgr. Sabino Vengco offer several explanations. That’s for the SWS survey that says the Filipino Catholic faithful are increasingly becoming less faithful. Only 37 percent now go to Mass compared to 64 percent in 1991. And 9.2 percent now even contemplate leaving the fold completely
Once more, my eyes welled up with tears as I read Conrado de Quiros’ column “Shining through” (Inquirer, 4/11/13) which was about his niece Katrina, who died of a heart problem a few days ago. It really is true that there is no word for the pain a parent feels in losing a child. [...]
This is in reference to the now widely publicized so-called Lacson-Santiago exchange, which was the subject of Conrado de Quiros’ Jan. 21, 2013, column.
