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THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH By TONY LOPEZ Go to the Senate hall during the trial.  Sit down.   Listen to the proceedings, the presentation of evidence.  Let the defense lawyer and the prosecution tangle with each other. Do not interfere, unless you want to ask clarificatory questions to understand the meaning of the evidence being…

By TONY LOPEZ Finally, the trial of the impeached vice president, Sara Duterte has begun.   Francis “Chiz” Escudero, Senate President of the 19th Congress took his oath as presiding officer of the Senate Impeachment Court, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Then 22 senators took their oath as judges before Escudero, the following day, Tuesday,…

By TONY LOPEZ Mobility.  Peace and order. Law. Corporate Governance. Higher Education. These are the themes I gather from President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s calibrated efforts to revamp his cabinet and reset his presidency. Mobility is Vince Dizon, secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOTr).  Since Feb. 21, 2025, every day has been a dazzling…

Clark is the best investment and tourism destination in the Philippines today.  And perhaps in the whole of Asia. Filipino investors should take a serious look into it—now.  Otherwise, foreign locators are about to take it over, for themselves, for their people, for their countries.  The South Koreans are leasing Clark lands by the hundreds of…

By Tony Lopez Is Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. (BBM) by now a lame duck president?   Hell, no. With three years and 40 days left of his six-year term, BBM is a breathtakingly powerful president and commander-in-chief.  And personally likeable.  It’s the things BBM has failed to do or deliver for the people that make…

By Antonio S. Lopez Leo XIV greeted, from the Central Loggia or balcony of Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica, the 100,000 faithful who had stood in vigil for hours waiting for news of a new pope at St. Peter’s Square, to introduce himself as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. In his first…

BBM alliance to sweep May polls By TONY LOPEZ I  averaged the 2025 results of the OCTA Research (April 10-16) and SWS (April 11-15) surveys on senatoriables and here are the percentages and the equivalent in number of votes (assuming 45 million vote for senators, an extravagant assumption given that only half of voters vote…

Pope Francis’s reign became remarkable for his humility, for promoting a more merciful, less rigid Church, a smiling, relevant Church, with a singular focus on ministering to the poor, the suffering, the imprisoned, the dispossessed and the marginalized, those who often, are invisible to society. By TONY LOPEZ Easter Sunday, the day before he died,…