Editorial
House for sale
The House of Representatives enjoys what is called the power of the purse. This power does not only mean the constitutional privilege of overseeing the use of government funds, but also the congressional privilege of seeing everything through the prism of money.
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Lame excuses
MANILA, Philippines -- Don't look at us, education officials are saying. It's the fault of some local government units, if not our predecessors'.
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Sun sets on JPEPA
TO THE UNTRAINED EYE or the unsuspecting mind, the scrupulously measured language of the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement seems neutral enough.
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Shields of wrongdoers
MANILA, Philippines--Like Executive Order 464 and Administrative Order 197, the Lozano and Pulido impeachment complaints are a perversion of constitutional principles. They are clumsy shields, but effective in that the law-abiding are stuck trying to smash them, as the administration wallows in its culture of impunity.
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Protecting news sources
We are standing by our story that Romulo Neri was about to reveal in executive session what he knew about the NBN deal when Senator Joker Arroyo intervened. We also believe that legally we cannot be compelled to identify sources of information given in confidence and on condition of anonymity.
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Without nukes
MANILA, Philippines -- When the leaders of South Korea and North Korea parleyed at the summit last week, for only the second time in their history, the international community watched the highly ritualized ceremonies with one pressing question in mind:
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Squid tactics
MANILA, Philippines--LATE Friday afternoon, without any fanfare (a curious thing in itself, considering how lawyers and politicians can be so publicity-hungry), an impeachment case against the President was filed in the House of Representatives.
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All talk
Given mixed signals from the President and her administration on human rights and extrajudicial killings, every agency feels free to act on its own interpretation of policy -- even in a way that contradicts her statements. And so the killings go on and the killers go free.
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