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Where is this impeachment complaint headed?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - June 29, 2006 - 12:00am
I must confess I can’t quite figure out what the political opposition’s game plan could be for the second impeachment complaint. To begin with, the numbers still don’t appear to be with the...
Clock ticking on Cha-cha
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - June 15, 2006 - 12:00am
One shouldn’t be misled by the hyperbole about the prospects of Charter change. The House is kidding itself if it thinks, as some of its members still maintain, that a constituent assembly is "the way to...
Puppets on a string
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - May 30, 2006 - 12:00am
Over the weekend, the killings of radicals and Leftists continued. Bayan Muna leader Noli Capulong and former New People’s Army chief Sotero Llamas were gunned down. The natural and usual suspects are the Armed...
Soldiers evicting soldiers
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - May 23, 2006 - 12:00am
The media coverage of Philippine Marines bodily ejecting elderly retired Naval officers from their quarters at Fort Bonifacio was difficult to watch, even if those retired officers were "overstaying" in...
The real battle begins
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - May 18, 2006 - 12:00am
Reason and good sense prevailed when our Movie and Television Review and Classification Board allowed the exhibition of the film, The Da Vinci Code, albeit with an R-18 rating. Thus, kids, which in this jurisdiction...
Hoodwinking government
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - May 16, 2006 - 12:00am
In our column of last May 4th, we lauded Vice President Noli "Kabayan" de Castro for ordering the padlocking of 10 houses in the Northville resettlement site in Bulacan. These houses had been illegally...
Who’s afraid of Da Vinci?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - April 20, 2006 - 12:00am
It appears a self-styled "anti-pornography" group is calling for the banning of the film version of Dan Brown’s runaway bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. This same group is calling on the aptly-named...
A fate worse than death
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - April 18, 2006 - 12:00am
What is clear is that the death sentences of about 100 Death Row convicts, which have already been affirmed by the Supreme Court on automatic review, have been reduced to life imprisonment by virtue of the President’s...
Agonies in their gardens
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - April 11, 2006 - 12:00am
As we noted in some detail in our last column, the Supreme Court majority in the case of Santiago vs. Comelec was trimmed from eight in the original decision to six in the resolution of a motion for reconsideration....
Agonies in their gardens
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - April 11, 2006 - 12:00am
As we noted in some detail in our last column, the Supreme Court majority in the case of Santiago vs. Comelec was trimmed from eight in the original decision to six in the resolution of a motion for reconsideration....
Agonies in their gardens
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - April 11, 2006 - 12:00am
As we noted in some detail in our last column, the Supreme Court majority in the case of Santiago vs. Comelec was trimmed from eight in the original decision to six in the resolution of a motion for reconsideration....
Distinctions without differences
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - April 4, 2006 - 12:00am
Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos, Sr. is right. The only way to resolve all pending controversies regarding the meaning and import of Santiago vs. Comelec is for those opposed to the conduct of a...
Exploitation not adventurism
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - March 25, 2006 - 12:00am
As we explained in our last column, one of the problems in keeping the military insulated from partisan politics, as mandated by the Constitution, and preventing civilian government (which is to say, politicians)...
What’s good for the goose…
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - March 21, 2006 - 12:00am
What’s wrong with the call of House Majority Leader Prospero Nograles for an audit of the P4.6 billion in pork barrel funds allocated to 23 members of the Senate, or roughly P200 million each? Nothing, when...
Must media ‘help’ government?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - March 16, 2006 - 12:00am
GMA used to be much nicer about it. But then again, those were, gauged by the intensity of today’s many political crises, much simpler times. When she made her request, Garci, Venable and Joc-Joc were not even...
The limits of press freedom
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - March 14, 2006 - 12:00am
The problem has never been with the motherhood statements. Palace spinmeisters say, for example, that press freedom is not absolute. But no one has ever claimed that that freedom is a license to peddle untruths or...
Media’s Big Brother
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - March 7, 2006 - 12:00am
The honor belongs to Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez who said from Iloilo over the weekend that seven unidentified print and broadcast journalists were being continuously "monitored" for possible inciting...
What national emergency?
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - March 2, 2006 - 12:00am
President GMA and several Cabinet secretaries are giving clear signals that the state of national emergency declared in Proclamation No. 1017 will be lifted within a few days. To help her decide whether the time...
L’etat, c’est moi
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - February 28, 2006 - 12:00am
"I am the state," Louis XIV told the French Parliament in 1665. During World War II, Winston Churchill’s irritation with General Charles de Gaulle, whom he regarded as insufferably arrogant, erupted...
No retreat, no surrender…not yet
by MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. - February 21, 2006 - 12:00am
It’s a little disconcerting that some international news reports are beginning to say that the time for rescue efforts may be running out and that it might soon be time for recovery operations to begin in earnest....
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