Commentary
The pathetic efforts of the demolition team of Noynoy extended to breaking into the Senate Web site, if not using some Senate insiders to circulate forged press statements from candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).The targets of the bogus e-mails were Gringo Honasan, Migz…
For all the 12-0 campaign spiel of Noynoy and his Liberal Party (LP), and if they do get the majority of the senatorial slate — and even if there will be a change in the Senate leadership, the fact is that in less than two…
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looks set to be a pragmatic ally of Washington, unlikely to end the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban as he seeks to focus on fixing the economy.Prime minister twice in the 1990s when Pakistan suffered…
Regardless of the outcome of yesterday’s election, and when I say regardless of the outcome, I mean that even by the remotest stroke of luck of a heaven-sent miracle the entire senatorial ticket of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) are proclaimed winners, President Aquino can…
Last week, we saw that in the early 19th century the UK’s electoral system was confused and inconsistent, its electorate extremely small. Was such a system able to represent the popular will?In 1817, a source cited in Elie Halevy’s A History of the English People…
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Comelec-voted senators
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Keep their dirty hands off…
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