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Threat
by Tony Lopez - July 18, 2026 - 12:00am
How does one handle a threat?
Sara guilty of grave threats, sedition
by Tony Lopez - July 16, 2026 - 12:00am
 After the July 14 and 15 hearings of the Senate impeachment court, I now conclude:
Sara’s character loan
by Tony Lopez - July 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Banking has a facility called a character loan.
The fall of Mike Defensor
by Tony Lopez - July 11, 2026 - 12:00am
I never thought I would see Michael “Mike” Tan Defensor, 57, behind bars, holding the cold steel bars of a suburban detention facility where inmates wear a bright orange t-shirt emblazoned with PDL –...
Being UMIC; Sara bludgeoned but unbowed
by Tony Lopez - July 9, 2026 - 12:00am
Finance Secretary Frederick Go sent me a primer on what it means for Filipinos for the Philippines to be upgraded by the World Bank into an upper-middle income country.
What upper-middle income means
by Tony Lopez - July 7, 2026 - 12:00am
Amazing, the cynicism that greeted the World Bank’s July 1, 2026 upgrade of the Philippines into an upper-middle income country, with a Gross National Income per capita of $4,850 – $214 more than...
Milestones to make one optimistic
by Tony Lopez - July 4, 2026 - 12:00am
Three recent developments make me optimistic about the future, as a Filipino and as a citizen of this world.
An explosive, riveting trial
by Tony Lopez - July 2, 2026 - 12:00am
The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte begins Monday, July 6, 2026. It will last from two to three months, probably much shorter, with 153 witnesses – 57 for the prosecution, 96 for...
Panic in Sara’s camp
by Tony Lopez - June 30, 2026 - 12:00am
With her trial to begin on July 6, 2026, a heat wave has struck the camp of Sara Zimmerman Duterte, the first Philippine vice president to be impeached twice, by huge numbers, by members of the House of Represe...
Technological singularity
by Tony Lopez - June 27, 2026 - 12:00am
In the science of artificial intelligence (AI), there is a concept called technological singularity.
AI and the Filipino
by Tony Lopez - June 25, 2026 - 12:00am
Bad news: the Philippines will be slow in adopting artificial intelligence and its improvements – artificial general intelligence  and artificial general superintelligence.
China vs US on AI
by Tony Lopez - June 23, 2026 - 12:00am
On June 13, 2026, at 5:21 p.m., Beijing and Manila time, China’s latest large language artificial intelligence model was released by Z.AI, formerly Zhipu, its flagship GLM 5.2, said to be the most...
Defeated
by Tony Lopez - June 20, 2026 - 12:00am
Donald Trump is running away from Iran. He has just been defeated, by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and by a ghost, Iran’s proclaimed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father,...
Senate President Win
by Tony Lopez - June 18, 2026 - 12:00am
At 9:24 Wednesday morning June 17, 2026, Sherwin Ting Gatchalian was sworn in as the 34th president of the Philippine Senate, the third highest official of the land and the leader of the second branch, the legislature,...
A man for others
by Tony Lopez - June 16, 2026 - 12:00am
Education is about values – truth, honesty, responsibility, leadership, excellence, integrity. Adhering to them every step of the way, even if nobody is looking, builds character. Character makes a man complete....
MVP on what matters in life and business
by Tony Lopez - June 13, 2026 - 12:00am
What values are more important than wealth or money?
SMC redefinesr resilience
by Tony Lopez - June 11, 2026 - 12:00am
The best is yet to come. For San Miguel Corp., for its owners, for the customers it serves and for Filipinos in general.
Emil Jurado Jr., 98
by Tony Lopez - June 9, 2026 - 12:00am
A dear friend, mentor and colleague in the journalism profession, one of its finest practitioners, will be cremated and inurned this morning, June 9, after the funeral mass, at Heritage Park.
Only one senator
by Tony Lopez - June 6, 2026 - 12:00am
Only one senator.
Marcoses wow the Japanese
by Tony Lopez - June 4, 2026 - 12:00am
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. probably made the most important state visit of his six-year presidency when he and First Lady Louise Araneta Marcos went to Japan, May 26-29, 2026 as guests of Emperor Naruhito,...
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