By: Ryan Bosco, Inquirer letters to the editor
Filipinos tend to over-analyze simple, common sense issues. They romanticize problems that result in complacency and fear, if not stupidity. They are sensitive when their faults and weaknesses are pointed out by a foreigner, but when their fellow Filipinos steal from their country’s treasury, they become numb and [...]

Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sen. Manuel Villar sees a pattern in the recent attacks mounted by some of his political foes and believes they have hatched a conspiracy to portray him as a “transactional leader.” In an interview Thursday with GMA-7’s Mike Enriquez, the standard-bearer of the Nacionalista Party said his Senate foes wanted to paint [...]

Bribery and corruption would mark the administration of Nacionalista bet Manuel Villar should he win the May 10 national elections, Liberal Party Director General Chito Gascon today warned the public.
Villarroyo had also been accused of facilitating the illegal conversion of prime rice lands in an Iloilo town to build the Savannah Subdivision. Villarroyo had allegedly [...]

Update: Mar. 3 – Well, since the original author of the article below isn’t showing up until now, I will own it for the time being, until someone surfaces and claim it.
To whoever wrote this piece, it’s a good one you know, show yourself and be proud.
Villar still refuses to attend the Senate to face [...]

by Lito Banayo, www.malaya.com.ph
Now the Magdalo, whose cause I believe in, whose unjust suffering I commiserate with, officially supports the candidacy of Manny Villar for president of this benighted land, because of his “competence, character and vision”.
And their spokesman, a fine former lieutenant of the Air Force, adds that behind this decision is a “man-to-man” [...]

By William M. Esposo (The Philippine Star)
The Marcos era was a defining moment in our history which separated heroes from opportunists. It is one of the best standards for determining who we can trust to really extricate us from this deep desperate pit we’re in and guide us into the Filipino Promised Land.
Manny Villar [...]

By Boo Chanco, www.boochanco.com, Philippine Star
Noynoy was a very pleasant surprise last Saturday during the interview session with staff and columnists of the Philippine Star. I had given him up as a policy lightweight after I read the text of his Makati Business Club speech. In his first important policy speech on the economy, Noynoy [...]

ni Lito Banayo, www.abante.com.ph
Noong nagdaang Huwebes, nagkaroon ng isang press conference ang higit 40 magsasaka na taga-Norzagaray sa isang restawran sa Kyusi (QC). Kanilang isnalaysay, sa tulong ng isang abogada at isang kasamang si Ginang Tecson, ang malupit na kinasapitan nila sa kamay ng isang makapangyarihang pamilya.
Patuloy na nanirahan ang kanilang mga ninuno mula pa [...]

By William M. Esposo (The Philippine Star)
This current presidential campaign has proved the immense impact of political TV advertising. Look at what Manny Villar’s reported over P1 billion advertising spending did for him — placing him in a statistical tie (Pulse Asia, January 2010) with Noynoy Aquino who has been leading the presidential race [...]

By Ramon Tulfo, Philippine Daily Inquirer
El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde is supporting the candidacy of Manny Villar.
That’s not surprising since Villar is fast catching up on Noynoy Aquino in the surveys and might win in the presidential contest.
Velarde is a segurista or one who bets on the sure winner.
And when Villar wins, the charismatic religious [...]