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Judge Roy Moore. Rise of America, Fall of the Americans
MANILA: "America The Beautiful" versus "America The Beautiful" - how do you like that?! Here is the short story of the rise of the individual and the fall of the social in the United States of America....
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The new Rica Peralejo. To last, don't keep a relationship!
MANILA: Rica Peralejo is a vague memory, and now she has turned out to be a big surprise. Last month, I read on Yahoo News the story headlined "How To Make A Relationship Stronger" about what Rica...
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China as landlord & master. Won't the Philippines do a David?
MANILA: If we can't defeat China in a hand-to-hand combat, let's try a metaphor! On January 22, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said, "The Philippines had exhausted all political and...
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SkillPages is great! Where to find a genius with words
MANILA: I don't remember now how I discovered SkillPages, or who discovered it for me, but I think SkillPages is great, or a genius, or both. For more than 3 hours this morning, Saturday, 23 February...
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Judging Benedict. Andrew Sullivan hates the sinner, not the sin
MANILA: Whom have you hated lately? Remember what I said: Hate hates haters. Pope Benedict XVI is resigning effective today, Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 8 PM, the first Pope in the last 600 years to...
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Remembering Fr Acong. Hero for the Church of the Poor
MANILA: We have a hero for Catholicism in the boondocks, the remote Church promoted especially for the poor, the Basic Ecclesial Community (BEC). He is Fr Acong, the Rev MsgrCiriaco Alberto Sevilla Jr...
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Jose Rizal's language. Why did our hero not write in Tagalog?
MANILA: Some emails are enlightening; some are frightening; in this case we have both. Here is Rizal resurrected; here is Rizal contradicting himself! This morning I received email with attachments...
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The Tarp of Bacolod. Team Buhay? Check! Team Patay? Chuck!
MANILA: Here are two of my predictions, and they both concern the Catholic Church. First, a new Pope is coming, and his name commences with the letter C. Second, a Catholic Vote is coming, and it will...
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A Pope Of Hope. Does Cardinal Tagle connect?
MANILA: The world needs a Pope of Hope. A Roman Catholic, Raymond Arroyo is saying the Cardinals gathered in Rome seem to be looking for "a reformer" and at the same time "a charismatic Pope who will...
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Poor Christian Science Monitor! CSM finds I know only 64% the Catholic Church...
MANILA: What I didn't know could have embarrassed me. Today, Friday 15 March, with some trepidation I took the Christian Science Monitor online quiz, "How much do you know about the Catholic Church?"...
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Walk for Life Laguna. Life is what we make it, or take
SAN PABLO CITY: I write for Life; I also shoot. I estimated 2,000 of them in this 2013 Walk for Life in this City along Jose Rizal Avenue; compare that to my estimate of 1,000 warm bodies in the 2012...
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Writers' Club, anyone? Together, each achieves more, TEAM!
MANILA: With a little bit of imagination, it's easy to become a creative writer - it's not easy to be good, better, best. I'm talking of Creative Writing, Nonfiction, especially PC-based writing of...
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Goodbye, Kristel Tejada! Education, condoms & moneymakers
MANILA: With her death, it's clear to me that instead of University of the Philippines, UP means Unconcerned People. Hamlet knows Death, the unconcerned country, from whose bourn no traveler returns....
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UP Must Die! In memory of Kristel Pilar Mariz P Tejada
MANILA: Thinking of the death of a UP student, today the Oblation has a different message for me, a UP alumnus: "Death, where is thy victory? Death, where is thy sting?" I mean, will the suicide of...
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Healing reinvented by Vitale. Eppie Brasil's & my Ho'oponopono
MANILA: Sometimes learning comes when you're not going after learning. Yesterday, Saturday, 23 March 2013, my wife Amparo and I attended the 2013 Lenten Recollection sponsored by the Marriage Encounter...
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My Noynoy's Complaint? Billions for condoms and not one cent for tuition!
MANILA: Another question: Is there intelligent life UP there in UP? Not before 16-year old Behavioral Science student Kristel Pilar Mariz P Tejada committed suicide because she couldn't pay her tuition...
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Life After Shows. Kris Aquino should take up Love, not Law
MANILA: Have you heard? Kris Aquino, celebrated & controversial actress & TV host and complicated sister of Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III, she has quit all her...
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Healing Without Forgiving. Joe Vitale's Selfish, Limited, Vulnerable...
MANILA: I writer am interested in healing because I know that healing leads to much creativity. Age doesn't matter because gray matter doesn't age in creativity. I have a mind of a 72-year old to prove...
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Free Summer Minds. Free Creative Writing Workshops by Frank A Hilario
MANILA: Summer is here. And best of all, it's free! I'm also free. Anywhere your group, club or association is in the Philippines, you may invite me to give you a free 3-4 hours of a Creattitudes...
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Conscientization, Paulo Freire. Creativization, Frank Hilario
MANILA: It is Good Friday! 29 March 2013 and I have just invented a process whereby you, whoever you are, are guaranteed to become creative, to generate more ideas where you had none before. I Filipino...
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