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‘To err is Truman’
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - March 20, 2007 - 12:00am
The phrase is attributed to the wife of Republican Senator Robert Taft, Martha, in the early 1950’s, and it wasn’t...
National interest
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - February 20, 2007 - 12:00am
Here’s our dilemma: The United States cannot force the Philippines to require 17,000 passers of the "compromised" 2006 nursing licensure examinations...
Incorrigible idealists
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - February 13, 2007 - 12:00am
At a time when "pragmatic politics" seems to hold sway, and when principles, it is said, appear to have been sacrificed on the altar of "winnability," it’s...
Thailand’s airport mess: Much ado over…
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - February 6, 2007 - 12:00am
In our last piece from Singapore, we told you about a front-page article which appeared at The Straits Times in regard to alleged operational problems being encountered at Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi...
Kit Tatad’s tirade
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - January 30, 2007 - 12:00am
Apropos of the Commission on Elections’ insistence that there is no more time to implement an automated or computerized system in time for the May 2007 polls, I got a text message from the principal...
Messages from apparitions
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - January 23, 2007 - 12:00am
In this ultra-sophisticated, high-tech, information-driven world of ours, we are often told that things are never that simple, that there is an innate complexity in how things are organized, or re...
Postscript to Smith: Falsification?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - January 16, 2007 - 12:00am
Just when we thought all the arguments had been laid bare in regard to the pros and cons of the custody of US Marines Lance Corporal Daniel Smith (remember him?), we get a call from former Senate President...
A ‘Solomonic’ CA decision? (Part 2)
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - January 9, 2007 - 12:00am
There seems to be some debate about the need to "review" the Visiting Forces Agreement. The United States government has taken the position that such a review would be premature in view of...
Character Change first, not Charter Change?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - December 26, 2006 - 12:00am
When Catholic Bishops of the Philippines president, Bishop Angel Lagdameo, called for character change first before charter change during that "thanksgiving" prayer rally at the Quirino Grandstand,...
What did the Pope achieve?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - December 7, 2006 - 12:00am
The media build-up of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey highlighted the political, even physical, risks the 79-year old Pontiff faced. His controversial University of Regensburg speech last September...
‘All-purpose’ vs. ‘vortex’ public figures
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - November 28, 2006 - 12:00am
The principal reason why the First Gentleman claims he is a private individual in that "slew" of libel cases he’s filed against journalists is to avoid a heavy burden of proof he would...
Should Rumsfeld have been fired before the elections?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - November 14, 2006 - 12:00am
In the usual recriminations that follow defeat, especially a defeat as crushing as losing control of both Houses of the US Congress in one bloodbath of an election, Republicans are now arguing over whether...
A non-precedent?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - November 2, 2006 - 12:00am
Let’s make this clear right at the outset. At the moment, as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Lambino, et al. vs. Comelec, the prevailing rule on People’s Initiative (PI) in...
The just society
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - October 31, 2006 - 12:00am
I must congratulate my alma mater, the Ateneo de Manila University, for having the good sense to confer a Doctorate of Laws, Honoris Causa, upon the Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverly...
Kill those monsters!
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - October 7, 2006 - 12:00am
Monster billboards, that is! Legislators and government officials are now falling all over themselves in their mad rush to stamp out these public nuisances. When Typhoon Milenyo made short work of these ostensibly...
Lethal billboards
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - September 30, 2006 - 12:00am
The debate over whether billboards can kill or maim should be over. Typhoon "Milenyo" ought to have settled the issue once and for all when a driver was killed as a result of a huge billboard falling right...
Palparan in the cross hairs
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - September 28, 2006 - 12:00am
Let me say up front that there can be no legal shortcuts in the fight against the communist insurgency. "Extra-judicial killings," an oxymoron in my book since I don’t see how killings can be other...
Exactly what the Pope meant!
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - September 19, 2006 - 12:00am
Muslims all over the world were evidently offended when, in the German city of Regensburg, German-born Pope Benedict XVI "implicitly" denounced links between Islam and violence, particularly in regard...
The De La Salle PEPTEST scandal revisited
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno Jr. - September 12, 2006 - 12:00am
A ‘loveless’ loveteam that clicks – and how! The one-year suspension of De La Salle University from competitions of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines due to ineligibility of two...
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