For Binay and for Poe, obvious isn’t really obvious

Yesterday, I saw the first of its kind. The No. 1 and 2 names coming out in the presidential survey just got their first exchange of statements both taking an offensive strike and defensive stance toward each other. Vice President Jejomar Binay said something like this country needs an experienced leader and that we can’t…

After 19 years, the inspirational message from Monica Lewinsky

People make mistakes. People forgive and they are forgiven. Her story is here to stay and up to inspire those who may have been experiencing cyber-bullying. Transcript of Monica Lewinsky’s Anti-Cyberbullying Speech at Forbes Under 30: Good Morning. It is only my fourth time delivering a speech in public. One was a practice, to a…

From the Lips of a Dying President

From the lips of a dying President By Salvador H. Laurel Former Vice President of the Philippines Chairman, National Centennial Commission Manila Bulletin Tues., Oct. 21, 1997 The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and the House Committee on Good Government are now conducting separate investigations on “Operation Big Bird,” a cloak and dagger operation undertaken eleven…

Somehow, you get inspired by the man

Speech of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. on this year’s Independence Day celebration: Tomorrow, we will celebrate once again our Independence Day or Araw ng Kalayaan but must ask ourselves whether we are truly free in the sense of the most basic of freedoms, freedom from hunger and poverty. Recent figures released by the National Statistical…