Opinion

Today’s View:  Vote wisely

Today’s View: Vote wisely

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May 13, 2013

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.

Davao Today

We cannot grasp the enormity of the responsibility we have at our hands as voters.  But we are going to shape a nation which is mired by corruption, poverty, armed conflicts, human rights violations and economic sabotage. 

Today’s View: A show of sheer arrogance

Today’s View: A show of sheer arrogance

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May 12, 2013

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

The behavior of the Comelec district attorney is not surprising. Certain public officials, thinking that the little authority invested in their official position, also grant them the license to be arrogant. They act like little emperors or empresses over their little dominions or “turfs.”

Today’s View: Let’s give peace a chance

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May 11, 2013

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.

Davao Today

Peace comes with a high price.  It comes not just with a symbol of a dove and the signing of agreements.  It comes with a commitment to achieve actual results through genuine and sincere reforms for the majority of the people.

Today’s View: Endorsement, anyone?

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May 09, 2013

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

Clearly, this practice of bestowing endorsement to electoral candidates reveals a condition of uninformed electorate.  For why should voters base their judgment on the endorsement of someone if they are knowledgeable of the faculties and qualities of the candidates?  Is this not a revelation of the ignorance of the citizenry about the politics of their country or about the competence of the political aspirants? 

Today’s View: Working class heroes

Today’s View: Working class heroes

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May 03, 2013

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.

Davao Today

And as the workers, farmworkers and peasants marched and braved the heat, with hundreds of red flags waving, they showed Aquino they are still a force to reckon with, undeterred despite the oppression they are experiencing from massive corporations who stole their lands and displaced them from their homes and livelihood.

Today’s View: A dirty word

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May 02, 2013

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

So convenient is this practice (or habit?) of attributing “political motives” to every conceivable incident or controversy such that the word POLITICS has acquired an obnoxious connotation in the social life of the Filipino people.

Today’s View: The unwise leader

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Apr 28, 2013

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.

Davao Today

As a leader, one must know when to attack and when to surrender.  A good leader must have principles which must not only to be morally upright, but knows what is right and must have the conviction to stand by it.

Today’s View: The Youth in history

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Apr 27, 2013

By DON J. PAGUSARA

Davao Today

Our country is not in wanting when it comes to revolutionary acts of heroism and deeds of patriotism by the youth for the cause of national freedom and national salvation.  They always rise to the occasion whenever the Motherland needs them.  It behooves upon the present generation to hearken to what the country has been crying for in these trying times.