Like I wrote in previous posts over at New Philippine Revolution, this governance regime is like a huge real-estate company. It wants to sell whatever it grabs or holds on without thinking about the national welfare. First, it abandoned the Spratlys claim,  then tried to partition Mindanao to a BJE and a non-BJE area and [...]

If there’s a Fannie and Freddie Mac, both housing firms which recently bailed themselves out of a sub-prime mess, in the Philippines, we have the National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC). Many people feared that it would suffer the same fate as that of its US counterpart. Yet, the sub-prime crisis in the States blew [...]

If there’s anything that we can start owning and start being proud of, it’s our Pinoy digital filmmakers. I had the chance to know about them when some of my friends told me about this cool digital film festival this September.  I’m really sad that they are trying very hard to enhance the digital film making [...]

The ongoing spat between Senate President Manny Villar and Senator Ping Lacson seems to be getting out of hand. Lacson dared Villar to get out of his post as Senate president to avoid tainting a possible Senate probe into Villar’s alleged complicity with the double insertion scam. Senator Jamby Madrigal meanwhile asked Villar to explain [...]