Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA
It’s a paradox, but Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize soon after he escalated the war in Afghanistan.’
When US President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway recently, I quickly noted the incongruity, yes, the paradox, of a war president being honored as a man of peace.
Watching the historic event [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NEW YORK
The political climate is changing for Barack Obama. Ever since he entered the White House ten months ago as the first black United States president last January, he has lost popularity.
His approval ratings, especially among the independents who voted for him, some Republicans and fellow Democrats, have dimmed below 50 percent for the first [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NEW YORK
Just nine months in office, President Barack Obama and his White House advisers or, as they are called, “czars,” are already defending his presidential “legacy.”
While jetting across the country on a fund campaign for Democratic candidates in the coming 2010 mid-term elections, Obama is also doing in his speeches “a line-item defense” of his [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NEW YORK - When Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida with its magnificent spectacle and intimate but tragic love story returned to the Metropolitan Opera last week, it was greeted with rousing ovation.
The Met assembled a cast of powerful voices to match the epic scale of the operatic opus. Violeta Urmana, a Lithuanian-born soprano, starred in the title [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NEW YORK
Soon after getting the Nobel Peace Prize last week, President Barack Obama headed to a high-powered White House military strategy meeting on his war in Afghanistan.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By Nestor Mata
NEW YORK - I promised myself that the first thing I’d do on my arrival here for my annual sabbatical was to attend the opening night at the Metropolitan Opera. Alas, I missed the premiere presentation of “Tosca”, but I caught glimpses of Puccini’s operatic opus as broadcast in Times Square with New [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA Modern public opinion surveys are designed to record and report on who is most favored by voters, out of a dozen or so candidates, in next year’s presidential race. So far, according to the latest of two pre-campaign poll surveys, Sen. Manny Villar is the one preferred by voters in Metro Manila, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Nestor Mata
MANILA -With Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the illegal resident of Malacañang, we’re better off assuming that everything that comes out of her mouth is separated by nothing but her own words. And this is just as true about her political cohorts, minions, devotees, and Palace mouthpieces that all appear to have been infected by the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Nestor Mata
MANILA - Many thousands of mourning Metro Manilans lined the streets, tossed yellow flowers and confetti, and chanted “Cory! Cory! Cory! as the funeral cortege bearing the remains of Corazon Cojuangco Aquino slowly moved from the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros to the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City August 5.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
What has been unfolding before the eyes of all Filipinos? With the exception of Gloria Arroyo and her fanatical political minions inside Malacañang and in what’s derisively called by a political satirist as the “House of Reprehensibles”? all these long years of her misrule, is a farce on the surface but a tragedy underneath.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA
The long knives of Manny Villar’s political tormentors are out, of all places, inside the august hall of the Philippine Senate.
All of them belong to the majority bloc in the chamber, and they are now getting ready to “hang” Senator Villar like a “lynch mob of the American Wild West.”
That’s how Senate minority leader Aquilino [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA - What exactly did Barack Obama, the first black POTUS, accomplish in the first 100 days of his presidency?
If you were to pose this question to Obama?s advisers and image makers in the White House and his media sycophants in Washington and New York, they’ll surely tell you he did a lot more than [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA - Almost 100 days at the White House now, President Barack Obama is reported as already moving American foreign policy in “a new direction.”
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA
AT the London summit of world leaders recently, President Barack Obama’s star glowed brightly. And at its closing, the POTUS proclaimed the event a “turning point” in the effort to reverse the global economic crisis.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA
Local feminists have been demanding maximum penalty for Daniel Smith because he had sex with their Nicole, I had repeatedly emailed most of these feminists requesting for confirmation: