For complete list of INQUIRER.net RSS Feed visit http://services.inquirer.net/rss/rss.php http://services.inquirer.net/rss/opinion_editorial.xml 2009-07-05T05:05:16+08:00 text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090704-213767/Trace-the-virus THE TOKENISM behind President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s two-day self-imposed quarantine shows us what happens when government policy follows short-term political objectives. At best, it accomplishes nothing. At worst, it sends the wrong signals, about the wrong priorities. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090703-213614/Independence-day WHEN the United States occupied Iraq, the neoconservative Bush administration claimed it was not only out to liberate Iraq from rogue-nation status, but it was embarking on tutoring the Iraqis in self-government, making them an example of democratization that would inspire shock and awe in the Middle East. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090701-213377/Totaled THE DECISION of Total Information Management Corp. to withdraw from its partnership with Smartmatic International Corp. leaves the automation of the 2010 elections all but totaled. Now the critical question is: What is the Commission on Elections prepared to do, to salvage something useful from the wreck? text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090701-213231/Testing-testing LAST SUNDAY, the Office of the Ombudsman was bombed early in the morning. The explosion damaged the water treatment facility in the compound, and shattered some windows. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090630-213042/Search-for-truth It is good that Filipino-American Melissa Roxas, a member of the US chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), has announced that she would sue military agents who tortured her almost to the point of death. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090629-212892/Bite-the-bullet CONTINUING criticism against the Commission on Elections’ decision to award the automation contract to Smartmatic/TIM—a contract which will finally be signed on Tuesday—gives us pause. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090627-212761/Come-clean NOT EVERYONE has the patience of a Fidel V. Ramos, whose enthusiasm for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been “waning, waning” for four years now. He still thinks the President can “transform, transcend and transfigure” herself into “an object of admiration, not vilification” by 2010. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090627-212636/Early-birds IF SOMETHING waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, can it be anything but a duck? In Philippine politics, the answer seems to be yes. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090626-212512/Schools-out THROUGHOUT the country, school administrators find themselves in a bind. As the A(H1N1) virus continues to spread, they are torn between the devil of suspending classes and the deep blue sea of containing the pandemic. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090625-212301/Killing-Tatay PRIVATE First Class Apolonio Pacioles was home from the battlefield. He had managed to go on leave—from the Army’s 54th Infantry Battalion, based currently somewhere in Mindanao—just in time for Father’s Day. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090623-212057/Wheres-my-vote THIS was the slogan that tens, and then hundreds, of thousands of Iranians have been displaying on signs. The signs have been evident ever since the Iranian government announced a landslide win for incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the morning after the polls closed on June 14. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090623-211907/Have-gang-will-travel BY the time president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo returns from her swing through Russia, South Korea, Japan and Brazil, she will have made 52 trips to 30 countries in eight years and spent billions of pesos in taxpayers’ money.