Seares: Public opinion and the vote on Corona
PEOPLE are skeptical about the senator-judges voting wisely on the guilt or innocence of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Already, there's talk of not having enough votes to convict ("three short of the required number") as if the senator-judges had already made up their minds...
Seares: Pacman, Leviticus, gay issue
WHAT’S the difference between Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s stand and Republican Mitt Romney’s position on same-sex marriage?
Both are against it. But Pacquiao was reported as having quoted or referred to the Book of Leviticus while Romney didn’t quote the scriptures.
Seares: Miriam’s rant over ‘Anonymous’
SENATOR-JUDGE Miriam Defensor-Santiago Wednesday was fuming again, louder and more colorful than usual, against an impeachment witness: one Harvey Keh of the "civil society" who believes Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona should be kicked out.
Last May 7, Keh, with a TV crew in tow...
Seares: ‘Lantern of lies’ or truth about Corona
SUPREME Court Chief Justice Renato Corona used "lantern" as metaphor in describing disclosures about his alleged wealth: 82 dollar accounts covering more than $12 million. "A lantern of lies," he said.
In the 1947 play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, Blanche Dubois, lead...
Seares: Erap vs. Lim: war of ‘oldies’
BOTH Joseph Estrada, ousted and convicted ex-president, and Alfredo Lim, mayor of Manila, don’t mind being called old. They don’t insist on politically correct “senior” or “elderly.”
When they clash in 2013 for Manila mayor, Erap, ex-actor/senator/VP, will be 76 and Lim, ex-top cop/...
Seares: Tulfo vs. Santiagos: clash of public figures
THE persons involved in the May 6 brawl at the NAIA Terminal 3 are all public figures: newspaper columnist-broadcaster Mon Tulfo and entertainment stars Claudine Barretto and Raymart Santiago.
Intrusion into private lives cannot be claimed, not by the Santiagos when Tulfo took pictures of...
Seares: PNoy’s not alone: new Grace looms
PHILIPPINE Star" led off its May 9 story on the Noynoy Aquino-Grace Lee breakup with the line from the song "Alone Again (Naturally)."
Filipinos hummed the tune in 1972 as they cursed Marcos and martial law under their breath.
Gilbert O'Sullivan's ballad sings of a man who wanted...
Seares: PNoy’s crabs, dealers’ hogs
DO CRABS mind if people who're cross or ill-tempered are called crabby? Do hogs complain if people who're coarse or greedy are described as hoggish?
Of course not, it's only in fiction such as "Alice in Wonderland" that animals are like people, with thought and emotion, including distaste...
Seares: Kids burned as parents got drunk
A MOTHER Friday night left their shack in Sinsin, Sam-ang, Toledo City to fetch her husband but ended up drinking coconut wine with him while fire razed their shack and killed their two kids, ages 4 and 2, in it.
Twenty five children died by fire in Cebu from 2000 to 2005: all left alone...
Seares: P-Noy’s fight beyond 2016 love ties
EVEN after I step down...?”
President Aquino said that Saturday before 230 defectors or “balimbings” being sworn in as Liberals.
Seares: If Corona wouldn’t testify
DON'T wonder why spokespersons of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona Wednesday held a press conference in Cebu to announce he wouldn't testify.
Ask instead why Corona himself didn't come, as during recess of the impeachment trial he had been all over Manila, telling friendly...
Seares: Kingmakers Erap, PNoy
PRESIDENT Noynoy Aquino must be a reluctant kingmaker. Until last weekend, when in Oriental Mindoro he fired his first campaign salvo, he hadn't been active in mending Liberal Party fences.
The 2013 election must hold scant interest to PNoy: he won't face reelection in 2016 and no coup,...
Seares: Ecleo’s caper and PBMA
MEMBERS of Philippine Benevolent Mission Association don't want PBMA called a cult.
They've resented that tag since their supreme master Ruben Ecleo Jr. was charged with two counts of corruption and the murder of his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo.
After Ecleo was convicted of the...
Seares: Obama and going to the dogs love ties
AT THE White House Correspondents Association Dinner Saturday (Sunday in PH), somebody let the dogs out and dogs ruled the night.
After that, US media chorused that the campaign between reelectionist Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney was going to the dogs.
Georgia welcomes others, though they are non-Osmeñas, who want to serve Cebu City
1. As member of a dominant political clan and long-time resident of Cebu City who has keenly watched how the city has been run for the past two decades or so, tell us how governance can be improved.
GEORGIA: When I ran for mayor, I had a program of government but I didn’t make it....
George says Ramas aren’t and won’t be a dynasty
1. The 2013 elections will be the first political fight of Mayor Michael Rama without sheltering under BOPK. As a barangay captain and a major campaigner for your cousin, how do you assess the mayor’s strength on these aspects: (a) areas that will go for him, his strongholds or “bulwarte,” (b...
Seares: Revisiting that order vs. STC
DID St. Theresa's College (STC) Cebu administrators defy that court order after all?
First, its lawyer said the TRO was defective because the Regional Trial Court required no bond. Then, STC's two new lawyers said the order was null because the court issuing it had no jurisdiction. Now...
Seares: Rama to sue over ‘drama’ comment?
JUST as Tomas Osmeña fumbled in suing his then rival Atan Guardo for libel in the midst of the 2010 campaign, it wouldn't be seemly for Michael Rama to sue Tomas Osmeña for libel in the current run-up to the 2013 election.
My goodness (as the fictional tot in the musical play "Annie"...
Seares: What Erap can teach PNoy about love ties
PEOPLE are talking about former president Joseph Estrada’s offer to be President Noynoy Aquino’s consultant on romantic affairs.
P-Noy has dated a succession of women but the bachelor hasn’t been able to keep one long enough to marry.
His love life has been intensely examined by...
Seares: Lim, Erap: Dirty Harry, Robin Hood
ALFREDO Lim was tough as a police officer and as NBI chief but he was no "Dirty Harry" Callahan, the film cop who used a .44 Magnum on crime suspects.
Joseph "Erap" Estrada was ousted as president, convicted, and jailed for plunder. But was he a Filipino Robin Hood, an Asiong Salonga who...
Seares: How Roxas said ‘I won’t run’
A POLITICIAN can just say, "I won't run," and tack on a qualifier for future use.
Mar Roxas, who yielded the LP presidential slot to Noynoy Aquino in 2010, wasn't content with a simple denial.
In disowning any plan to run for president in 2016, Roxas said a mouthful: "honestly,...
Seares: Crimes on which Ecleo was not judged
THE parricide case arising from the 2002 murder of Alona Bacolod-Ecleo was the only crime of which Ruben Ecleo Jr., congressman and cult leader, was charged. (He was convicted Friday by the Cebu Regional Trial Court).
There were other crimes, though connected with Alona's murder and Ecleo...
Seares: Ecleo spits at police might, skill
RUBEN Ecleo Jr., cult leader and congressman, last Friday was convicted of parricide by the Cebu Regional Trial Court (RTC) for the death of his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo. He was sentenced to at least 30 years in jail.
Seares: Targeting Jojo Binay
HIS enemies want to take him out so he won’t become president. Jejomar “Jojo” Binay, as all vice presidents are, is literally a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If President Noynoy Aquino, God forbid, dies on bed, at work, in a high-speed car, or in the excitement of a Grand Theft Auto...
Seares: Mary, Mary Magdalene and Fr. Lao
IN Matthew, Mary Magdalene, after visiting the burial site of Jesus, told disciples about the empty tomb. Mark was explicit: Jesus "appeared first before Mary Magdalene."
There are a lot of Marys in the Bible, we're told: Mary, earthly mother of Jesus; Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus;...
