Panos Mourdoukoutas, a contributor to Forbes magazine, wrote a commentary entitled “China will lose the South China Sea game.” Let me quote him verbatim in the succeeding paragraphs.

“Bless me, Father for I have sinned. But I do not know if I have sinned, Father,” I whispered hoarsely, in the confessional.

THE world’s ugliest cigarette packets aren’t going away.

THE government’s proposed second phase of the tax reform is critical to the modernization of the corporate tax system in the Philippines, in support of the country’s development. Once implemented, this reform will improve the overall business environment and further establish the Philippines as a strong reformer in the region.

My addition to the two related statements above is: For every government intervention and taxation, there is an equal opposite distortion.

Howard Warren Buffet, the grandson of Warren Buffet, is an entrepreneur of our generation.

I voted for President Duterte.

As we move closer to possible changes to our Constitution, now is a good time to reflect and remember its philosophical and historical foundations. The Constitution was not made and does not exist in a vacuum. There is a context to it and much of that context is all too human.

President Rodrigo Duterte has denied ordering the arrest of “istambay” (the plural form of Filipino nouns is not formed with an “s”) despite the Philippine National Police’s detention of over 7,000 mostly young people, and the death, most likely through a police beating, of at least one individual who had stepped shirtless out of his home to get a cellphone “load” only to be arrested and jailed.

On rainy, dreary days, people feel blue. It is a reaction to the absence of sunlight. The incessant monsoon rains exacerbate the mood of anxiety and restlessness.

IN A speech to a joint session of Congress shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump praised Harley-Davidson, the storied motorcycle manufacturer, as a great American company -- the kind he most wanted to see succeed. Less than two years later, he is threatening to punish the firm for doing its best to survive his policies.

Fans, allies, and supporters of Dutertenomics continue to cite high world oil prices as the reason for the Philippines’ rising inflation rates.