For complete list of INQUIRER.net RSS Feed visit http://services.inquirer.net/rss/rss.php http://services.inquirer.net/rss/opinion_editorial.xml 2009-11-22T17:05:08+08:00 text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091122-237680/Freedom-to-dream WHEN news broke that candy Quimpo-Gourlay, former deskperson of this paper in the 1980s, was going to be published by David Ficking Books (an imprint of renowned publisher Random House), the country was thrilled. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091120-237461/Deadweight FOR SHEER size and resources, no party comes even close to the administration’s Lakas-Kampi-CMD. As President Macapagal-Arroyo told party leaders during its convention Thursday, three out of every four elected officials belong to the party. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091119-237236/Untangling-Luisita THE EMERGENCE of Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as the galloping front runner in the 2010 presidential race has directed national attention back to Hacienda Luisita. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091118-237049/Committee-of-the-hole WE DO NOT KNOW WHETHER SEN. MANNY Villar has kept his own counsel on the C-5 issue, or whether his closest allies have been dispensing bad advice, but for a man who has stoutly protested his innocence, he is certainly acting guilty. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091117-236878/Depth-not-demolition THIS EARLY, we see the presidential and vice-presidential races heading straight to the gutter, instead of a battlefield of contrasting platforms and principles. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091117-236695/Peace-pact-can-wait First the good news. In her unprecedented satellite forum at the University of Santo Tomas, the first time for a sitting US secretary of state to do a live public interview on Philippine television and before students and academicians of key universities across the Philippines. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091117-236695/Peace-pact-can-wait First the good news. In her unprecedented satellite forum at the University of Santo Tomas, the first time for a sitting US secretary of state to do a live public interview on Philippine television and before students and academicians of key universities across the Philippines. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091115-236498/Crowning-glory AFICIONADOS call boxing the “sweet science,” but it is neither sweet nor scientific. What it is is an unforgiving sport, and often a brutal one; last Saturday we got another shocking reminder of the sometimes casual cruelty of boxing. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091114-236300/Scapegoat Over the years, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has determined the parameters that govern her domestic freedom of action, politically, when it comes to relations with the United States. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091113-236084/Ms-America HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, the US secretary of state, is as close to perfect a face that post-Bush America can present to the world. Intelligent, articulate and engaged, she projects a charm appropriate to her role as the US government’s top diplomat. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091112-235869/Rhetorical-device RICHARD GORDON released the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Report on the NBN-ZTE controversy upon the prodding of Jose de Venecia III, who preferred that the report be made public, with its recommendation that he be charged, rather than the report never being issued at all. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20091112-235664/It-stinks No amount of spin, no amount of belated rationalization from Malacaņang, no amount of preemptive legal gobbledygook from the spineless Ombudsman can obscure the most basic fact about the NBN-ZTE scandal.