Monthly Archives: July 2005

Discernment

Discernment is my column for today, further explaining some of my reasons for concluding the President must resign. As I blogged yesterday, De La Salle has made news along with other organizations (such as the Jose Diokno Foundation, whose president is my aunt), that have decided to call for the President to resign. In its [...]

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Brinksmanship begins tomorrow

This evening, I will be a guest on The World Tonight, where the discussion will most likely lead to analyzing what will take place this week. I believe the guiding principle of the next few days will be brinksmanship. As Wikepedia puts it, Brinkmanship is ostensibly the escalation of threats to achieve one’s aims. Eventually, [...]

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Simpler and more complicated

Things are getting, in a sense, both simpler and more complicated. Let me clarify first of all, that in trying to analyze things, I am trying to remain clinical, although the conclusions I draw are, of course, my own; but I hope as much as possible not to reinforce my own conclusions by being selective [...]

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Reflections

The big news yesterday was Cory Aquino’s statement and the interesting decision by the majority in the House to go along with the playing of the Paguia tape: talk is that the administration has decided to raise the ante by preparing to release new tapes that show at least two opposition senators also talked to [...]

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