This Friday, May 11, Filipinos in the Philippines will rally in front of the China Consulate in Makati to protest China’s “creeping invasion” of the Philippines in the Scarborough Shoal. There will be similar simultaneous protest actions in front of all the consular offices of China in the United States and in Canada as well as in [...]

If the Filipino people could only unite to defend the Scarborough Shoal as Filipinos did to save Jessica Sanchez from being eliminated in American Idol, perhaps China will think twice about invading the disputed shoal. But just as Sanchez cannot rely on the Idol celebrity judges to save her anymore, the Philippines also cannot rely [...]

The week of April 23rd was a proud week for Pinay mamas in the world of American pop entertainment. In the three highest-rated American network TV talent shows, four of their Filipino-American offspring survived another round of increasingly tough competition.
Perhaps the most famous of the survivors is 16-year old Jessica Sanchez who rebounded in one [...]

If the Chinese Navy invaded the Kalayaan municipality in the Spratly Islands over the Scarborough Shoal incident and captured all of its 223 Filipino inhabitants, the resulting campaign by the global Filipino community to save them would not come close to the current massive united effort being mounted to save Jessica Sanchez from elimination in [...]

Terror Alert! A group of 16 Fili pino suicide bombers are poised to infiltrate the US border in Mexico wearing deadly explosive vests to be detonated in heavy metropolitan areas to kill Americans. A crack team of US Navy SEALs have been dispatched to intercept them.
That is the surprising plot of the new Hollywood film “Act of Valor” which [...]

The resolve by the US Pinoys for Good Governance (USP4GG) to petition the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reconsider and reject the election of Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago as an ICC judge was not made on a spur or on a whim but only after careful deliberation. Although members had already been dismayed by the repeated [...]

It is simply unrealistic to expect the Philippine Senate to remove Chief Justice Renato Corona. The whole televised spectacle, while educational and entertaining at times, has been an exercise in futility as the end result was known right from the get go.
It was unrealistic then to have expected the 2001 Senate to remove Pres. Joseph Estrada at [...]

Though straight talk got US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas Jr. in hot water last September when he volunteered his estimate of the number of foreign male tourists who visit the Philippines for sex (“40%”), straight talk to a packed audience of 250 Filipino Americans at the Intramuros Restaurant on February 4 drew [...]

Poll surveys taken in the United States and in the Philippines are remarkably accurate even though they are based on different models.
In the US, polls are based on personal interviews conducted by phone of individuals whose phone numbers were obtained from directory-assisted random-digit-dial (RDD) telephone samples using a proportionate, stratified sampling design. It is a [...]

The families of Bubby Dacer and Emmanuel Corbito have been waiting for justice for more than 11 years since November 24, 2000 when operatives of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF), then under the command of Gen.  Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, abducted, tortured and executed Dacer and Corbito. Their families may take comfort in the news [...]