GMA lifts government freeze on oil prices and urges oil companies not to make drastic increases on fuel prices and to be more responsible.

We promise to be good boys and girls.

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22 million people are downed by swine flu in the United States and 4,000 have died.

The sad part is that the US could not produce enough vaccine to combat

the virus. What is the situation in the Philippines?

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Actor and TV personality Edu Manzano is the vice-presidential team mate of Lakas-Kampi candidate Gibo Teodoro.

Manzano will face off with Mar Roxas and Loren Legarda. It’s going to be a slambang fight.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging the Philippine government to push a peace agreement with separatist groups in Mindanao and end 30 years of insurgency.

The atmosphere appears favorable for an agreement to push through. All that was needed was an honest broker.

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Presidential bet Noynoy Aquino is now the target of character assassination attempts.

He should learn how to roll with the punch. Politics is conflict.

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Comelec has rejected the bid of gays and lesbians to be recognized as party-list groups on moral grounds.

Sexual deviates and politics don’t mix.

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Teresita Ang See, founder of the Citizens Action against Crime, is endorsing the presidential candidacy of Secretary Jun Ebdane, saying he did good work during his tenure as PNP chief.

“He helped us with several kidnapping cases during his term. He is trusted by the Filipino-Chinese community,” said Ang See.

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After a year of investigation, the Senate Blue Ribbon committee headed by Dick Gordon has found top Malacañang officials and members of the Cabinet culpable for graft for their involvement in the $329 million ZTE-NBN broadband deal with China.

They can try to prosecute but are they going to succeed?

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Another scandal crying for resolution is the P3-billion ghost purchase of liquid fertilizer by an official of the Department of Agriculture.

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Public school teachers are threatening to go on mass leave on election day in May. They want to be paid P2,000 a day, not ?P1,000.

Government should bend backward to accommodate their demands. It’s a legitimate one.

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Department of Foreign Affairs says there are about 3,000 Filipino workers languishing in jails in foreign countries.

The pity is we don’t have the resources to help them. Just grin and bear it.

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Metro Manila Development Authority will remove 780,000 illegal squatters from rivers, canals, and creeks in Metro Manila as they are blamed for the recent massive floods that engulfed the city.

But where are you going to settle them?

The administration party Lakas-Kampi is bugged by mass defections as members leave to join other parties in order to avoid defeat.

Passengers abandoning a sinking ship.

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Police is checking up on politicians who are coddling criminal syndicates which are being used to raise funds for their campaign.

There’s one in every province.

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The chairman of the PCGG is being denounced by his employees for nepotism, going on expensive trips abroad, failing to liquidate P10 million in cash advances and employing too many consultants.

We know him to be a good man.