Millan: Dark Shadows
THE impeachment trial of the Chief Justice is going to be finished sooner than soon. What used to be impossible at the beginning now appears to be possible towards the end. At the beginning, conviction was a giant too huge to overcome. Towards the end, acquittal has become a target too big to...
Millan: Better Than Nothing
EDUCATION changes lives. Education dictates futures. Education modifies destinies. These are statements that can barely be the subject of any argumentation and any debate.
As a country, therefore, we must invest in the education of our people, in order to dictate good futures for our...
Millan: The Lucky One
JUST when we thought that we have gone over the hump or have crossed the great divide with the automation of our elections, here we are now faced with the prospect of one and done.
Generally, the automation of our elections was high-impact, game-changing and long-term. Naturally, there...
Millan: Battleship
THE heat is on, not just due to the summer sun, but also due to the midterm elections next year.
Millan: Feel the wrath
TIME, when already lost, can never be found again. Attempts can be made to make up, but even this takes from the present and not brings back the past. Indeed, when time is gone, time can never ever be recovered.
It is, thus, imperative, that time is not only purposefully spent but also...
Millan: The Hunger Games
WE should quit playing games, and instead start planning programs, and instead start implementing projects, to solve our problems that are nowhere near the fun and joy of games.
While there is some sort of good news on the macroeconomic situation of the country, the good news still...
Millan: Unofficially Yours
THE ongoing trial of the Chief Justice at the Senate sitting as an impeachment court has continued to teach lessons, and reveal the realities of everyday life, as it proceeds with its live coverage on radio and television.
The latest of these truths, as it happens all the time, is the way...
Millan: The Devil Inside
THE ongoing trial of the Chief Justice in the Senate acting as an impeachment court has given a bird's eye view of how banks work, or play, with money.
Money comes. Money goes. Money rolls.
This is just one account, or rather multiple accounts, of one and the same person, or rather...
Millan: This Means War
IN THE ongoing impeachment trial of the Chief Justice, the Prosecution Panel has already stopped, the Defense Panel will already begin.
This means that we are now going to listen to another storyteller of the same story but telling a different version. This version is to destroy what has...
Millan: Spirit of Vengeance
CERTAINLY, there are good things that the government is doing. Definitely, there are good news that the government can report. They may not be good enough, but still there should be something somewhere.
Obviously, if news coverage is to be used as the only measure, these good things and...
Millan: The Vow
THE members of the House of Representatives who signed the impeachment complaint against the Chief Justice have grouped themselves together once more and once again to form what they call Movement 188.
Millan: Contraband
NO DOCUMENT in recent history has underwent the scrupulous scrutiny that the SALN of the Chief Justice is currently undergoing. All the items that were written are being reviewed like they were materials for the bar exam. All the items that were not written are being speculated on like they...
Millan: The Mysterious Island
IT IS a wonder that a small island like Tawi-Tawi with just a dozen municipalities has more students than a big province like Magindanao that has almost forty municipalities.
It is a marvel that a small island like Tawi-Tawi with just a dozen municipalities has more students than a big...
Millan: Haywire
OUR modern-day heroes are no longer anywhere near modern and are no longer anywhere near heroes. They are just what they are -- overseas contract workers.
They are no longer modern, for they have been as such for generations. They are no longer heroes, or at least not as such in terms...
Millan: We Bought A Zoo
THE first few days of the impeachment trial of the Chief Justice at the Senate sitting as an impeachment court was not as explosive as the fireworks were expected to be. There was no blanket bombing. There was no precision firing. There was hardly any noise, alarms and scandals.
Millan: A Game of Shadows
THERE is no argument that the impeachment trial of the Chief Justice is more of publicity than of merits. There is no debate that the entire exercise is more political than legal.
In fact, even when the rules and regulations of the Senate sitting as an impeachment court prohibit the...
Millan: Shake, Rattle and Roll
IT LOOKS like we can never begin to learn from the lessons of the past. Each time there is a natural calamity, it always becomes a national disaster, like it was the first time we experienced one.
As usual, we put the blame on everybody except ourselves. As always, we claim that the havoc...
Millan: Immortal
WE have a President who has balls.
Using his own style, whether or not we agree with it, he has successfully caused the impeachment of two of the most powerful people in the land.
One has chosen to give it up, the Ombudsman, thus the resignation.
One has chosen to fight it...
Millan: Ghost Protocol
THE President has spoken, and there is no need to repeat the stinging words he used to bite the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The House of Representatives has spoken, and it wants the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court impeached and he was in fact so impeached, in a way that was so...
Millan: Breaking Down
DISTURBING, it is, for the big bosses of two co-equal branches of government to be engaged in a clash of the titans.
Really disturbing, it is, if one group launches attacks as a cabal, but the other group exercises restraint as an institution.
Beyond disturbing, it is, when what...
Millan: Trespass
A NEW season has arrived. Not Christmas. Televised Senate investigations.
Time and again, Senators scramble for the limelight. Time and again, witnesses take advantage of their fifteen minutes, or fifteen hours, of fame. Time and again, nothing will come out of these investigations except...
Millan: Down the drain
P1.7 BILLION is an amount that is way too big to not be seen even by the smallest of all eyes.
It seems, however, that in some places in our country either the eyes are blind or are blindfolded, or the big becomes invisible or it disappears.
Millan: The key word is Law
THIS is a very confusing time for our country but it should not be.
Millan: The Thing
BOTH houses of Congress will be tried and tested over a new proposal that will create a clash between public interest, ours, and private interest, theirs.
An act prohibiting public officers from claiming credit through signage announcing a public works project was filed in the Senate....
Millan: Battle of Order
THIS is not the time to be misty, foggy and cloudy.
A lot of lives have already been lost and, very recently, it seems that the killings have not yet stopped. Before, the deaths can be presented as part of the package or counted as the costs of war. Now, some quarters are crying murder,...
