Only five Senate seats up for grabs ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 03/03/2010

Only five Senate seats up for grabs ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 03/03/2010 The last Commission on Elections (Comelec) list of senatorial candidates that I saw had 59 names in it. With only 12 Senate seats up for grabs, the candidacies of 47 of the listed candidates will be unsuccessful. Who will end up in the 12-candidate winning circle will depend upon a trio of factors. The first of these factors, clearly, is reelectionist status. A reelectionist has by far the best chance of winning an election among candidates. A reelectionist is always in the public eye and almost everything that he does or says is reported by the media. Thus, during the course of the campaign and — more important — on election day a reelectionist is very much in the consciousness of most voters.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100303com3.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL They’re not listening FRONTLINE Probables ZOOMING IN Only five Senate seats up for grabs C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Let the Supreme Court decide HE SAYS ‘Asin at kandila’ SHE SAYS Crisis and disaster FEATURE Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa’s murder capital LETTER Clarification

Let the Supreme Court decide C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/03/2010

Let the Supreme Court decide C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/03/2010 Now that the Supreme Court (SC) has been deluged with at least eight petitions on GMA’s power to appoint the replacement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno when he retires on May 17, it is hoped that the brouhaha over this issue will finally die down and the high court is given the opportunity to dissect this issue in as proper and objective a manner as befits it. For a time there, the public was harangued with all kinds of “push and pull” by various forces advocating wildly differing positions, the shrillest being those insisting that the appointment be left to the next President to make. While those advocating such position cited provisions of the 1987 Constitution to support their view it was clear from the way the argument progressed that, one, they had only contempt for the sitting president and two, that they simply wanted the most senior associate justice who happens to be Justice Antonio Carpio to be automatically appointed as the next Chief Justice. That these people insinuated that GMA was insistent in making the appointment even with a host of legal questions hanging just to “shield” her and her family from various cases which will surely come their way when she herself steps down from office by June 30 made their posture less than proper. But that is another story.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100303com4.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL They’re not listening FRONTLINE Probables ZOOMING IN Only five Senate seats up for grabs C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Let the Supreme Court decide HE SAYS ‘Asin at kandila’ SHE SAYS Crisis and disaster FEATURE Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa’s murder capital LETTER Clarification

‘Asin at kandila’ HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/03/2010

‘Asin at kandila’ HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/03/2010 There was some agitation in the movement of one family who lived across my neighborhood several summers back, like its members were meeting a frantic deadline to complete their individual sets of survival kits, which I later learned consisted of several kilos of rice, some salt, a number of pieces of candles, and a motorcycle helmet for each of them. They were to bring them to Tagaytay before 3 p.m. sets in the summer clock on that specified date, which their leader, whom they fondly called Si Ako, had predicted to be the exact time when the world would have ended. I am not sure why Si Ako, like many other mystic cult leaders in the past had chosen the time of 3 p.m., which.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100303com5.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL They’re not listening FRONTLINE Probables ZOOMING IN Only five Senate seats up for grabs C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Let the Supreme Court decide HE SAYS ‘Asin at kandila’ SHE SAYS Crisis and disaster FEATURE Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa’s murder capital LETTER Clarification