Shop ‘til you drop SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maceda 03/09/2010

Shop ‘til you drop SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maceda 03/09/2010 Villar’s drop. Nacionalista Party’s brain trust as well as other political analysts are asking why NP presidential candidate Manny Villar suffered a big drop of 6 percent in the latest Pulse Asia survey. The consensus among advertising executives is that his huge TV advertising has reached a saturation point. The drop also gives traction to the charge of overspending and a crude attempt to buy the presidency. This, in turn, leads to the question of how the billions he is spending on his campaign will be recovered. AFP casualties high. Contrary to claims of GMA and the AFP leadership that the NPAs are on the wane, the rebels inflicted heavy losses on the government forces over the weekend in Oriental Mindoro, Negros Occidental and Compostela Valley. Eleven soldiers led by 1st Lt. Ronnie Sipsip of the 23rd Infantry Battalion were killed in an encounter in Malansay, Oriental Mindoro. Another lieutenant of the 62nd Infantry Battalion died in a fight with NPA rebels in Cadiz, Negros Occidental while a soldier died in a clash in Compostela Valley..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/commentary/20100309com6.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL To each his own FRONTLINE Opposition? ANALYSIS ‘Closet-Nazi’ in running for Austrian president NO HOLDS BARRED Still doing movies as if movies were still movies AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Hoaxes and conspiracy theories SILVER LINING Shop ‘til you drop