It is easy to go along with the angry mob in Mindanao and Luzon, especially in provinces where flooding, landslides, mud and flotsam, and river overflows devastate the villages, ruin farms and crops and lives---whenever heavy rains pour.

Why EV looks kindly at Martin Romualdez

Tired of the glum and sullen faces of Brice Hernandez, Henry Alcantara and the eternal smiling faces of Martin Romualdez and Zaldy Co?  Still amazed at the sartorial elegancy of both Curlee Discaya and Ping Lacson?

ISP: Big golf event set in Cabuyao

In the House of Representatives, where members representing political districts and party-list organizations, are supposed to earn respect and admiration even from the public; are expected to be respectable adults with certain degree of intelligence, social awareness and empathy to the ordinary Filipino’s daily life of hardship and struggle—the situation obtaining on the ground is appalling.

Two young solons talk sense

China officially observed the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War 2 last September 3 with the now historic 2025 China Victory Day Parade.  It was called Conference to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

BBM not invited in this great event

It has been a few weeks since the multi-millionaire Discaya couple mentioned the name of former Speaker and Leyte first district Representative Martin Romualdez in connection with the flood control anomalies, before the Senate Blue Ribbon panel.

Where's the beef about Romualdez?

The unabated flow of billions of pesos in public funds to the rivers of corruption, which President BBM himself denounced last July, has shaken both the government and the private sector to smithereens.

Vince's vitriol a slur to animals

In 1996, the heads of states of five nations—China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan—signed a military cooperation treaty, thus laying the groundwork for the establishment of the 10-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2001.

Listen, Bongbong: SCO is the way to go  

Remember the series of hearings in the Senate last April, 2024—conducted by the Committee on Health headed by Sen.  Christopher “Bong” Go—during which the company Bell-Kenz Pharma was grilled by senators for various alleged marketing and medical malpractices?

Erin Tañada’s health advocacy

After the bashing and statements of condemnation, after the demonstrations, rallies, and shaming and throwing of stones and eggs and tomatoes at the mansions of cheating contractors and the DPWH building—what now?

Legal recourse vs corruption

The results of his life work’s research may be challenged, but nobody can question Carl Sagan’s method of trying to arrive at the truth.  It is the height of scientific inquiry.

Carl Sagan, Guteza, and the truth

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG Column Diego Cagahastian and Raffy Sarnate

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG

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