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Marvin Bionat is the creator of philippineupdate.com, a news and views site that has served as a virtual platform that promotes various advocacies, including the political empowerment of overseas Filipinos and accountability in government. He wrote the National Bookstore bestseller How to Win (or Lose) in Philippine Elections (Anvil Publishing, 1998) and is now based in the U.S. working as an editor.

How to know the recession is over

What specific metrics should we look at to tell the economy is really on the mend?
 

Twittering on the Hayden/Katrina scandal and Charter change

It’s actually much harder to capture thoughts when you have to do it in less the 140 characters, so tweets require way more time than ...
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Crumpage: My unifying theory of behavior

In my longstanding attempt to create a grand theory of human behavior, I have invented a new word: crumpage. Yes, move over Freud and Jung, ...
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Smart ways to govern

In their book Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein argue that through "choice architecture" people should be subtly steered into making the right and desirable ...
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100 days down, 1,360 more to go

Clearly, the Obama administration has not wasted any minute playing the change-agent role it was mandated to assume. Within 100 days, it has crammed ...
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Boston Tea Party Redux: A grassroots movement or a political dud?

If you watched Fox News on April 15 (the big tax deadline in the U.S.), you would think that America was on the precipice of ...
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Your stimulus package has arrived

A rider in the recently approved stimulus package is the authorization to release US$198 million to benefit Filipino veterans who served under the US during ...
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Obama to lead an America in deep, really deep [bleep]

The number of shoppers, even during the holidays, has become noticeably scarce in malls and department stores here in the US. Last time I went ...
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The Great Depression: Deja vu all over again?

No, it’s not quite the Great Depression in the America — not yet anyway. In the 1930s, unemployment was at 25% compared to only about ...
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The Pac-Man gobbles up another Mexican

Emmanuel Lucero, Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, Erik Morales, Hector Velazquez, Oscar Larios, Jorge Solis, Oscar De La Hoya. The list has become long ...
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Finally, Some Good News

Note: This online column will appear regularly. For its title, Dean Tony acknowledges Malcolm Gladwell who, in his book The Tipping Point, defined "connectors"

A Crisis, An Opportunity

Two days before the torture video was made public, I was conferring with a colleague and an official of the Aquino administration essentially offering assistance

Media and the Manila Hostage Crisis

Once again, the media is in the media. After audiences worldwide were treated to ringside seat views of the drama as it unfolded last Monday,

Killers, the Police and the State

The main function of the State is to protect the citizens’ right to life, right to private property, and right to liberty. When people have

The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy: Nativist Aversion to the Unfamiliar

The intuitive reaction to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is understandably negative. Why build a Muslim place of worship next to a site

COMING HOME FOR P-NOY: Tales from the 2010 Inauguration

My wife and I came to Manila last June 27, 2010, to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Benigno Aquino III as the 15th President of

Brain Gain

In the 1970's, the phenomenon that is international migrant work started to become most palpable to us who are in their late 30's and 40-somethings

Rep. JV Ejercito : Be Heedful of Alvarez’s claims

San Juan City Representative JV Ejercito today urged the Filipino people to be heedful of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez’s claims of fully ‘revamping’ the bureaucracy,

REVOLVING DOORS

Reputation and credibility are very important for media practitioners. They live and build a career on these two elements. What happens then to

Using Smart Power

The approval of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant for development projects in the Philippines is a clear indication of America’s trust or
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