MANILA TIMES: ATTY DODO DULAY - A GOVERNMENT MISSING IN ACTION

Missing in action. Yep, that about sums up how the Aquino administration deals with the most basic needs of our people. With only about two years remaining before the next presidential elections, PNoy's government continues to DISPLAY A LACK OF WILLINGNESS to seriously tackle so many of our nation's most pressing issues. Their "band-aid" (and sometimes, half-witted) solutions to our people's problems BETRAY A SERIOUS LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND POLITICAL WILL to reform the status quo.

MLA TIMES: YEN MAKABENTA - A GOVERNMENT OF APOLOGIES AND FAILURES

The paradox of the Aquino presidency is that while it is perhaps the most moralistic we've ever had, it also may have tolerated and instigated the most brazen looting of the public treasury ever perpetrated in the country. The big avenger for public rectitude that we saw during the 2010 presidential campaign is in fact largely a bystander in his presidency. He directs Budget Secretary Butch Abad to come up with the schemes to facilitate the looting and make it look legal. He looks away when his appointed executives at the Social Security System and other government corporations illegally allocate public money for their own pockets.

MLA TIMES: VITANGCOL, A SACRED COW?

Vitangcol has challenged the Ambassador to shed his diplomatic immunity so he could sue the envoy at the proper court. De Vera for his part, challenged Ambassador Rychtar undego a lie detector test to determine who between them is lying. SOMEONE IS DEFINITELY LYING. And IT IS NOT H.E. JOSEF RYCHTAR, Czech Ambassador to the Philippines, SORRY BOYS, TRY AGAIN.

MANILA TIMES: BANGSAMORO DEAL ILLEGAL - OIC

To the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the Philippine government and the MILF is JUST A SCRAP OF PAPER. According to an official of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the OIC recognizes "no other [peace] agreement" but the "legal and binding" Tripoli accord signed on September 2, 1996 by the Ramos administration and the MNLF.

PHILSTAR: DICK PASCUAL - WHAT LEGACY?:  Mr. Aquino's shortcomings may be costly, but not fatal. What he could do is reach beyond his small tight circle, then get the best and the brightest to help out. His team seems to be a collection of second-liners, not innovators and movers. They have wasted more than three years, leading the PRESIDENT ON A CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTING POLITICAL FOES AND SIMPLY IMPROVISING FROM ONE CRISIS TO THE NEXT. In terms of something really monumental, WHAT LEGACY will Noynoy Aquino leave behind in 2016? That question should scare him and his boys.

MLA STANDARD: JOJO ROBLES - MARRED Roxas

I think Roxas, a high public official who still harbors plans of becoming President someday, will be judged differently by the "99 percenters" who are not his fellow members at Wack-Wack. And, yes, these include those people whose low-paying job it is to serve Roxas and other big shots yet DON OT DESERVE TO BE CUSSED OUT AND BERATED PUBLICLY, especially if they've done nothing wrong.

PHILSTAR: MAR MAY BE SUSPENDED FOR GOLF OUTBURST

Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II may face suspension under the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club's handbook for member-employee relations following his outburst during a round of golf with guest earlier this month.
- and GUESS who is the president of wack wack golf and country club? Philip Ella Juico, husband of PCSO chief margie juico! WAAAAH!

MLA STANDARD: FR.  RANI AQUINO

Most ignored the merits of the petition and repeated the government's line about her supposed corrupt administration. But then again of course, as Justice L. Brandies so acutley wrote decades back: The government is the teacher of the people, and the vengefulness and mercilessness that found their way into the Facebook posts, I told myself, was a reflection of the (mis) education of the nation at the ends of a government that has had vengeance high on its list of priorities.

MLA STANDARD: FR. RANI AQUINO

Through Facebook, I get to read reactions of news posts by networks like GMA, CNN, and others. And what I read has made me sick, and not only in the stomach! When Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo petitioned the Sandiganbayan for a furlough because of real and documented health problems (a request that was predictably given short-shrift by the court!) the posts were just merciless, crude and completely irreconcilable with the romanticized picture of the Filipino as kind, caring and loving. Many were downright demonic in wishing even death for the former president.