So I See by Lito Banayo
The outliers
Clearly, both Mar Roxas and Jojo Binay would want to frame the 2016 electoral fight as a “mano a mano,”...
Ang mangga, bow!
Funny how the political circus has become a fruit instead of animal show. And the current metaphor used is the...
Send in the ghosts
PNoy endorsed Mar on the last day of July, “in good taste”, as Mar’s “only lady” Korina Sanchez described. The...
System change
So we’ve heard the last State-of-the-Nation Address. I shall not join the parade of commentators. I have chosen instead to...
‘Ownership’
A long time ago, I heard a famous musical band leader say that he “owned” his rock band. I thought...
Geo-rithmetic
One of the outdated observations in Philippine political practice is the so-called “command” vote. It hardly exists. Perhaps we had...
Voter psychographics
We had a very interesting encounter with top political consultants and a mass communication expert last Friday at the Club...
Nothing is forever
A year ago, everyone and his mother assumed Jojo Binay, the “poor” man from Culi-Culi in the area where Makati...
Options open
What President Aquino will report to the nation come the 27th of July is of little moment compared to the...
Never on a Sunday
I did wonder why the Greeks scheduled their historic referendum on harsh austerity measures being imposed by their European creditors...
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