Conchita Carpio-Morales

Formless and Void

Nov 19, 2017chamclowderNationalism, Philippines, Politics, Society#FreeLeilaNOW, #JusticeForAll, #SignTheWaiver, #StandWithCJ, Conchita Carpio-Morales, Federalism, Leila de Lima, Maria Lourdes Sereno, Office of the Ombudsman, Revolutionary Government, Rodrigo Duterte

I MET WITH friends last week to talk about where we’re headed – more important, where Rodrigo Duterte is taking us. Thankfully, the company and food were good. The discussion was depressing. FORMLESS To be fair, we took an objective look at federalism. We wanted to know whether it was something the country truly needs now – is

Por Vida!

Oct 8, 2017chamclowderPhilippines, Politics, Society#SignOrResign, #SignTheWaiver, Antonio Trillanes, Bato dela Rosa, Conchita Carpio-Morales, Duterte hidden wealth, Jose Calida, Maria Lourdes Sereno, Ombudsman, Persida Acosta, Rodrigo Duterte, Vitaliano Aguirre III

WHAT A WEEK. Rodrigo Duterte’s tailspin has not been arrested, in fact it has intensified. After Sonny Trillanes’s privilege speech last Tuesday, Duterte spat out venom against him, the Ombudsman, and the Chief Justice every chance he could. Speaking at sewer level (as usual), Duterte revealed such juicy tidbits as the alleged state of Trillanes’s genitalia and

Tailspin

Oct 2, 2017chamclowder2 CommentsCulture, Nationalism, Philippines, Politics, Society#SignOrResign, #SignTheWaiver, Antonio Trillanes, Bank Secrecy Law, Conchita Carpio-Morales, Hidden Wealth, Ombudsman, Rodrigo Duterte

“WHOM THE GODS would destroy, they first make mad.” That’s the popular line uttered by Longfellow’s Prometheus; as a Christian, however, I prefer Samuel Johnson’s version: “Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat” – “Whom God will destroy, He first makes mad.” The thought doesn’t do justice to our redemptive God, who is far from the wrathful deity folks sometimes imagine. But

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