Common ad for rival bets
By Christian Esguerra
Rival senatorial candidates from Team PNoy and the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) are set to appear in a rare TV advertisement next week.

Rival senatorial candidates from Team PNoy and the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) are set to appear in a rare TV advertisement next week.

The oldest candidate in the May 13 senatorial election said he has managed to keep up with the grueling campaign—thanks to modern stem cell therapy.

The New Year’s Eve revelry firing that killed Stephanie Nicole Ella and more recently, the shooting rampage that left at least eight people dead in Cavite, have drawn attention to a number of gun control measures that have been rotting in Congress.

At the House of Representatives, the bloc opposed to the RH bill is not raising the white flag despite the presidential certification. The focus now is on the 62 House members who were absent when the chamber approved House Bill No. 4244 on second reading on Thursday.

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has rejected the “watered-down” version of the reproductive health (RH) bill being proposed by House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, a bishop said Tuesday.

Tired of politicians switching parties at the drop of a hat? A bill seeking to punish “political turncoatism” has been passed on third and final reading in the House of Representatives. A related measure was earlier approved at the committee level at the Senate although some members had expressed reservations.

What’s in a name? For San Juan City Representative Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito, it means a lot.

The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) may end up recommending Friday day five, instead of the customary three, candidates to President Benigno Aquino from which the latter will choose the next Chief Justice.

The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has set the ground rules for its senatorial candidates who will be endorsed by another political party, according to its secretary-general.

From “super-coalition” to “super-nothing”—that’s the beginning and the end of a “proposal” for an alliance between the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) and the ruling Liberal Party (LP).

It would seem the sibling rivalry in the multifamily household of deposed President and convicted plunderer Joseph Estrada is being played out in the early positioning for the 2013 elections.
The prosecution team was again caught unprepared on Tuesday when it failed to disclose the number of witnesses it would present against Chief Justice Renato Corona.
From hypertension to “terminal boredom.” This was how Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago described her return to the Senate from a weeklong absence due to hypertension and declared in her Twitter account that she was “ready to rumble”.