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US Ambassador Goldberg on US "Rotational Presence"

By Bobit S. Avila | December 4, 2013 - 12:00am

When newly-installed US Ambassador Philip Goldberg pre-sented his credentials to Pres. Benigno "PNoy" Aquino III, he started with a speech that was a bit comforting to many Filipinos; that under his watch, he won't...

Freeman Opinion

A Pinoy Perestroika? Part II

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | May 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Here is a continuation of that enigmatic manifesto that has been circulating around the country that we already wrote about last Tuesday.

Opinion

P-Noy and last year's unfinished business

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | January 3, 2012 - 12:00am

This is our first column for the Year 2012 and like many Filipinos we have high hopes that this year will be better than the previous 2011, which we can only characterize as the Year of Great Natural Disasters.

Opinion

OFWs: Our new heroes or milking cows?

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | November 29, 2011 - 12:00am

My article last Saturday regarding the ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) intending to work in countries without any bilateral arrangements to protect these workers have boomeranged on the Philippine Overseas...

Opinion

A new RH bill angle exposed! It's about money!

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | May 20, 2011 - 12:00am

The debate on the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill resumed in Congress this week, where the pros and the antis debate once more on this highly-toxic issue...

Opinion

The meat of the meat controversy

By Bobit S. Avila | December 29, 2010 - 12:00am

Before we start this piece, allow me to greet my beloved wife, Jessica a very Happy Birthday today.

Freeman Opinion

Anti-trafficking in Cebu gains good results

By Bobit S. Avila | November 6, 2010 - 12:00am

The boom on tourism has no doubt brought development to areas that were once considered so inaccessible no one would go to such places.

Nation

Some e-mailed responses from our readers

By Bobit S. Avila | October 9, 2010 - 12:00am

We do have our share of e-mailed letters or commentaries in response to our articles, especially on the various topics we write about, and I always respond to our readers, regardless of whether their comments are...

Nation

The duty of the electorate!

By Bobit S. Avila | December 28, 2009 - 12:00am

It is only fitting that for our final show in Straight from the Sky for the year 2009, we bring you His Excellency Robert Desjardins, Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines, who came to Cebu to wish us a Merry Christmas...

Freeman Opinion

Celebrating 42 years of the killing of Filipinos!

By Bobit S. Avila | December 26, 2009 - 12:00am

I got a lot of responses on the article we wrote last week when we lambasted the Nationalista Party (NP) for having those left-leaning partylist members, Satur Ocampo and Liza Masa in their ticket as if this nation...

Nation