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Team Tisha vs Team Andy

Thursday, 17 August 2017 03:55 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

IN the past three weeks, mainstream and social media have been on a feeding frenzy on an unfolding drama cum scandal – always fodder for writers, opinion makers (including this writer) and anyone with the propensity to put their two…

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All-out war

Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:41 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

IN PRRD’s July 24 SONA, he made it clear that the talks with the CPP-NDF have been aborted. Cancelled. “Peace is elusive,” he declared, with a tinge of exasperation. When Duterte invited the New People’s Army (NPA) in a sincere…

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The Deegong, the imperial President

Thursday, 06 July 2017 08:59 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

Last of a 3-part seriesTHE Philippine presidency consists of the President, his immediate staff and the collective units, principally the Cabinet, reporting directly to the President. Handed down by the US colonial administration, our presidential system hews closely to the…

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The imperial presidency (the emergence of a strongman President)

Thursday, 29 June 2017 10:14 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

Part 2COINED by the eminent author and chronicler of the Kennedy years, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in his book of the same title, The Imperial Presidency, the phrase has entered into the lexicon of political conversation. Writers have since used this…

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The imperial presidency (or the self-castration of Congress)

Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:50 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

Part 1THIS column will attempt to interpret and understand President Duterte’s martial law declaration and his comportment after the fact and compare it to similar assertions by past Presidents—as seen from a combination of several points of view.First, as an…

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Shooting the messenger

Thursday, 01 June 2017 12:04 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

“You’re fired today. Get out of the service. You do not contradict your own government.”–President Duterte to DDB Chairman Benjamin Reyes (GMA News)AND with that unceremonious public shaming, another one “bites the dust”. What brought this about was the bureaucrat…

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MANILA IS NOT OUR ENEMY!

Friday, 26 May 2017 10:41 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

To all CDP dues paying members of good standing; volunteer members; Young Centrist Union (YCU); Centrist Democratic Sectors; and Centrist Democrats all over the country.MANILA IS NOT OUR ENEMY! We have allies in Metro-Manila, Luzon and Visayas as we have…

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Political chameleons

Thursday, 25 May 2017 08:50 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana

IN May 2016, the Deegong ran with just a handful of PDP-Laban stalwarts; the current Senate President, the House Speaker and one or two nondescript candidates for Congress. But three weeks prior to the President-elect’s assumption to power, the LP…

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