Tweet The coverage on ANC of the Senate Committee hearings featuring a shifty-eyed Director of the National Archives, was extremely frustrating. Those who didn’t sound stupid sounded ignorant, those who didn’t sound ignorant or stupid sounded disingenous, and so on. Regardless of the truth -and the truth is something extremely …
Tweet There’s a wesbite focusing on Fernando Poe, Jr. , particularly on the citizenship issue, with many columns by noted columnists being reproduced. The question in my mind, though is: granted his supporters are angered by the citizenship issue, still, how many of them will actually go to the streets …
Tweet Thanks to the miracle of the internet, you can read Apolinario Mabini’s La Revolucion Filipina here. This is the parapgraph I referred to in my previous entry: To sum it up, the Revolution failed because it was badly led; because its leader won his post by reprehensible rather than …
Tweet The authentic, and dominant thread in our history, is the peaceful quest for change. Heretical as it may sound, the dominating ideals have been those proposed and desired by Rizal, which even Mabini, after supporting the First Republic so fiercely, at the end of his life endorsed. The Propaganda …
Tweet The ongoing debate concerning Fernando Poe Jr.’s neing a natural-born citizen or not, is leading me to the following conclusions. First, it is virtually impossible to have any sort of intelligent discussion among our officials. And I mean all our officials, on both sides of the political fence. But …
Tweet I’ve had a web page up since 1997, but I’ve never been happy with them. They always ended up hokey or clunky, or impossible to update. Now, at last, things may be going right. We’ll see. Right now I’m fairly confident things are on the right track.
Tweet “Si Rizal at ang Pilosopiya ng Pagtitiis” Mensahe sa ika-107 anibersayo ng kamatayan ni Dr. Jose Rizal Calamba, Laguna Manuel L. Quezon III Ika-30 ng Disyembre, 2003 Dahil ngayon ay panahon ng mga survey, magsimula tayo sa mga datos na ibinibigay sa atin ng mga nakaraang “survey” tungkol sa …
Tweet It don’t mean a thing By Manuel L. Quezon III IT must have been around May or June, 1941. My father, who was mayor of our town, danced one tango too many at the Casa Mañana while he was in Manila “on official business,” had a heart attack, and …
Tweet Philippine Columbian Speech The Hon. Salvador H. Laurel, dear officers and members of the Philippine Columbian, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: Upon the invitation of Tio Vic Buencamino, I am here to say a few words to you about Manuel L. Quezon, as we celebrate Quezon Night, a Columbiano …
Tweet Raul Manglapus: Pied Piper of Democracy By Manuel L. Quezon III NO one sings “Blue Eagle the King” anymore, and no Atenean belonging to the martial law baby generation knows his music at all; but of the many songs he composed, one lives on: “Mambo Magsaysay,” the anthem of …
