Land Reform

EDIT (05/02/2008):  This post has been republished by the following websites:
In Defence of Liberty – A website with a collection of libertarian writings.  You can find the post here.
Repormang Agraryo – A blog devoted to agricultural concerns.  You can go directly to the post here.
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The Senate ZTE-NBN Hearing

“A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary.”
- Author unknown.
I’ve been fascinated with the revelations in the Senate hearings on the NBN deal. Abalos has been revealed as one greedy bastard who was willing to have the government spend millions of dollars to get $132 million [...]

On the House

Jose de Venecia is about to be ousted from his post of Speaker of the House. That is, if we believe the news. But I don’t think that JdV will be able to pull a miracle bunny from the hat this time around. The President herself is calling for his departure, along [...]

Crazy Coup

As of now, the government has imposed a 12mn-5am curfew on Metro Manila and certain regions of the country. Ostensibly, this was done to smoke out other members of the conspiracy to bring the government down. Actually, what this does is to broadcast to all the world how nervous and shaky the government [...]