LOOKING at yesterday’s Sun.Star Cebu front page story on President Noynoy Aquino linking up with Danao City Vice Mayor Ramon “Nito” Durano III tempted me to use the phrase “coming full circle,” but I was worried that might not be apt. Yet one can mine a few lessons in politics when you consider that P-Noy [...]

IT WAS wang-wang blaring all over in President Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address last Monday. It blared 28 times all over his 53-minute report; a report he said was short, simple and straight to the point. But for all he promised, the Sona was never straight to the point and left a lot [...]

THE president defied translation at one point of his State of the Nation Address (Sona) last Monday. “Naman,” he said. While accurate, the official translation—“I find this hard to believe”—didn’t quite capture the disappointment and disbelief that colored the Tagalog speech. These are the figures the president found hard to believe. Citing reports from the [...]

AH, myth-making. When Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III ran for the presidency more than a year ago, his political rivals and their propagandists portrayed him as intellectually challenged, even autistic. That has long been debunked. Now Aquino bashers are content in describing him as incompetent. The “autistic” who became president delivered Monday his State of [...]