Isabel P. Ball
Columnist since 1996, appearing in various publications.
A published author of book title "Tenacious Devotion: Conquest of a Purdah Belle"
Poet and screenplay writer.
An activist who desires improvement in my country, the Philippines.
A published author of book title "Tenacious Devotion: Conquest of a Purdah Belle"
Poet and screenplay writer.
An activist who desires improvement in my country, the Philippines.
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Articles by Isabel P. Ball
February 13, 2010
An essay about the John Edwards saga from an empirical point of view.
October 23, 2009
Donations to the Philippines are in records high for the typhoon victims. But disparaging reports that the ugly Filipino trait of corruption again taints the humanitarian intents of the world donors, and compromising the health of the victims.
October 06, 2009
Encumbered and greatly impoverished by the ruling corrupt administrations, the Filipino people are reeling and teetering after the recent typhoon devastations. They are awakened to a scary reality that the government has done minimally to uplift the society, while the Philippine treasury are in constant assault from political thieves channeling the money for their personal use. The writer has suggested an idea that might stop the rampant corruption, and has a potential to becoming a model for donor countries to use to check and monitor corruption.
June 26, 2009
Heartrending events contemplative to the soul.
October 04, 2008
America's hidden weapon to achieve world peace lies on Sarah Palin's inherent charm and beauty to disarm egotistical leaders of the world.
September 12, 2008
If you believe in miracle, the Sarah Palin Factor is an epitome. Who would have predicted such a political phenomena to drop into the political stage. She is seemingly godsend to an invocation by a party languishing under the less eloquent, patriarchal John McCain, presidential nominee of the Republ...
April 28, 2008
FLDS exploitative and a black eye to America's pursuit of human rights and freedom.
February 02, 2008
A sad plaint of a writer and report of John Edwards followers distraught condition following his suspension of his candidacy.
January 08, 2008
A historic moment happened in Iowa as we all know. The first African-American candidate won overwhelmingly for the democrats at 38% votes of the white majority state.
Obama garnered an impressive vote deluge from the young college age at 51%. The barrage of these voters, at first, tagged as undepen...
December 10, 2007
The phenomenal Oprah is doing a whirlwind political tour covering Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina all critical to the political survival of her one choice for the presidency.
She sealed her commitment with a statement that is alarmingly colored purple. She said in Iowa before a jam-packe...
December 03, 2007
Many political pundits view this presidential contest in Iowa is not the usual, in that majority numbers, more than 50% of caucus voters are still uncommitted at less than a month away to the caucus day in Jan. 3. Thus, uncertainty grips the main contenders of both parties.
In the Democratic tick...
November 24, 2007
Each time a remorseful face surfaces in the news that of a personality that once swept the world of its feet for having accomplished an Olympian feat, to me, is always heartrending. It wracks my brain to try to rationalize humanity’s capacity to mete out cruel punishments to basically an imperfect ...
November 12, 2007
The Joan of Arc of the Muslim hemisphere, Benazir Bhutto, 54—like a bear fresh from hibernation portents to be a ravaging figure to the Al Qaeda and the Muslim militants in Pakistan. She brandishes a new brand of steadfastness; combatant, unyielding, uncompromising but to the institution of democrac...
October 30, 2007
I’ve been bypassing arrays of local Filipino newspapers, a shamble piles of thinned out, free issues on the sidewalks begging pick up.
Frustrating, irritating, convulsing are swirling emotions that had caused me to abstain from reading reports about the Philippines. In extreme, I’m turning a bigo...
October 06, 2007
Humans by nature are sensitive creatures, primordially designed with acute sensors that help to ensure its survival. We are familiar with our five senses, or at the height of it, a sixth sense power that in all practicality serves us signal, say for instance, when an insult is aimed upon us.
Suc...
September 12, 2007
The ticking of days for Navy Captain Nowak can not be more harrowing now, as she waits and prepares towards that court hearing upcoming on Sept. 19. On that day, would hinge the quality of future life she would likely have, as her lawyer appeals to the court to disallow her police statements and ite...
August 27, 2007
As Endeavor landed safely from its recent mission, it was missing one veteran crew. Lisa Nowak, 44, never took off. Earthbound by an electronic monitor, she was more than preoccupied in dealing with critical task of reclaiming her freedom. Sometime in February it was curtailed by a court in Florida...
August 22, 2007
Tagged as the most loyal, dogs are beloved pets, and befittingly. Years ago, I heard how a family dog named Monang, old and loyal, displayed a powerful, almost humanly trait is anecdotal. Living isolated in a remote area, a friend’s elder parents were said talking about lunch at mid morning, with M...
August 20, 2007
Together always, holding hands like infatuated teenagers, amorous smooches and liplocking op shots are in public eye featuring Rudy Guiliani with his much younger and third wife, Judi Nathan.
The leading, but numbers eroding, leader of the Republican pack of Presidential aspirants, Guiliani i...
August 13, 2007
Sequel to the Story: A Chinese manufacturer of the Matel Toys reportedly has committed suicide.
Ambling along in the flea markets or swap meets is always a fun experience, of seeing eclectic antiquary products and merchandises. The beautiful, delicate, and lasting American craftsmanship depicted...
August 02, 2007
A claimed harbinger of neo politics and a great optimist in political changes in the governance of the country is beholden to the spotlight.
This time, Barack Obama is gradually chipping away his mystique, as a renaissance presidential candidate, allowing us glimpse of his points of view. His re...
June 04, 2007
In less than 48 hours, Paris Hilton is entering into a zone she never dreamt of, let alone, foretold as part of her reality. For 23-days, the Los Angeles County jail detention for women, in Lynwood, CA will be her address with surety.
Sassy, bratty, haughty words ascribabl...
April 19, 2007
Two strong magnitude social events occurred literally on the heel of each other has startled America and the world-at-large. On a personal level, they made me retreat into a deep contemplation, with all my mental faculties working to fathom the causes and sensible explanations to such occurrences. A...
April 07, 2007
“An Inconvenient Truth” documentary has earned Al Gore, a proponent of Global Warming, an Oscar for world activism.
The film documents the Earth’s sickly health condition, metaphorically speaking. Backed by the preponderant scientific studies revealing the prominent causes of the environmental an...
March 12, 2007
Gas price is back consumer-gouging again. Here in San Diego, one of the most vulnerable community to be impacted quickly than the rest of the nation, the price have finally broken that $2 tape mark, now, it is hovering at $3-$3.15/gallon mark.
By the trend, fuel seems pretty much on its mark to ...
January 22, 2007
Quality has always means to me a certain standard for products, when consumers could get a long mileage of use, and before, quality was the hallmark of consumer products in America. As has been, the stamped seal of Made In USA was a guarantee of consumers’ satisfaction. Recalling how as a young girl...
January 04, 2007
A political rock star is born, so seems the frenzy. Born not on the traditional Hollywood stage, but from the opposite continental end of our nation, in the east coast, where natural players perform their daily routine of influencing the nation and the world of its policies.
All media klieg ligh...
December 22, 2006
Living up to his name, Donald Trump, turned out to be Tara Conner’s real trump card.
Saddled with fastidious allegations, the young Miss USA from Kentucky, Tara Conner, just turned 21--for days--teetered from hurls of a “Miss Behaving” epithet flashing on the news screens. The wires choked with n...
November 22, 2006
Crime really doesn’t pay, to this day, rings loud and true in the life of OJ Simpson, an individual needing no introduction to the world. More than his prowess as a football superstar, he outshined his own prestigious record in the annals when he was tried for murder of the century of his wife Nicol...
November 09, 2006
The American people have spoken, loud and clear, in the recent election result. They have given complete control of the House and the Senate to the Democrats. Single most identified factor in the mandate has been the protracted war in Iraq.
The Democrats intense campaign to gain control of ...
September 22, 2006
Fiery, bombastic, sarcastic, and spiteful flurries of rhetoric rocked the United Nations two days in a row on Sept. 19 & 20. Two highly ambitious leaders seethed with ire, as they delivered speeches before applauding U.N. delegates. President Bush preempted the speeches.
Iran President, Mahmoud A...
September 11, 2006
Number one enemy of the free world, topping the FBI’s most wanted list, and reportedly, bearing a prize head of cool 50 million dollars, Osama bin Laden, the elusive leader of Al Qaeda, remains that loose in the hinterlands, suspectedly, in the Chitral Province in Pakistan, bordering with Afghanista...
September 10, 2006
Varying opinions flurry in the face of hot issue as the immigration. But when two oppositionists are widely known personalities, issues become a lot more intriguing.
Between Pat Buchanan and the matching opponent President of National Council La Rasa, Janet Murguia, their recent TV presence in th...
September 04, 2006
That crime doesn’t pay is depicted once again in the recent apprehension of the abominable polygamist, Warren Steed Jeffs. Fortunately, life has its own way of maintaining balance, setting up a way to ensnare malfeasant individuals. Nothing but that power could explain the oddest of ways to have cau...
August 16, 2006
Afghanistan and Iraq are two of the American pilot studies in the democracy implantation, in the aftermath of its war adventures in the heart of the Muslim lands. In Iraq alone, the battle continues with increasing casualties, the country is totally in rubbles, as the Muslim insurgents, with the fer...
August 14, 2006
Afghanistan and Iraq are two of the American pilot studies in the democracy implantation, in the aftermath of its war adventures in the heart of the Muslim lands. In Iraq alone, the battle continues with increasing casualties, the country is totally in rubbles, as the Muslim insurgents, with the fer...
July 15, 2006
Basically, in the scheme of human society, our behavior, characteristically volatile, has given birth to a professional vanguard that are comprised of lawyers, who convene at the halls of justices in huge numbers at any given time to right a wrong, though not often the case. The lawyers a...
July 04, 2006
As a writer with a published book, I would appear to be one successful author reaping accolades and financial gain. Finishing a book, let alone publishing it, is an endeavor that many green-eyed, would be, but lackadaisical authors nail bitingly feel intrigued about. The accomplishment, to say the...
June 29, 2006
As a writer with a published book, I would appear to be one successful author reaping accolades and financial gain. Finishing a book, let alone publishing it, is an endeavor that many green-eyed, would be, but lackadaisical authors nail bitingly feel intrigued about. The accomplishment, to say the...
May 03, 2006
America and the United Nations shouldn’t be surprised at Iran’s obstinacy at its behests to stop its production of uranium necessary in building a nuclear bomb. Iran will not yield to anyone’s dictates, because it is not Muslim to do so. How different is Iran’s behavior from the terrorist Al Qaeda...
April 22, 2006
A used car barely in its midlife I recently purchased from a dealership manifested detectable signs of mechanical problem that I noticed in the first month. Fancying to drive a manual shift after having been bored by the automatic models, the gears on my car were not shifting smoothly. As well, ...
April 10, 2006
Illegal Immigration is an on again off again, more than anything else, a political issue. After all, it was the politicians and their lopsided policies, using the illegal immigrants as a political cache that had helped create, burgeon this monster size of humanity from various places of the world...
March 16, 2006
There they go again! Another coup d etat, but like a bomb diffused, it failed to explode and exact the tolls intended to disable or maim the present administration of Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines. Targeted for dismissal as President since the puny Garci Tapes, where she had reportedly admitted...
December 10, 2005
I must confess that the last mail I sent through the post office in National City in South Bay California, on Wednesday, left me so much paranoid. Not even a postal worker’s suggestion that I buy a tracker service for 45 cents, and other security services with individual price tags allayed, my skep...
December 04, 2005
The word illegal immigration has become like a ringtone to me connected to a memory, before 9/11, significant, unpleasant, and bitter. It was a moment where I was being made a hostage by a local extremist, a professor, and my mentor for a teaching job with the South Western College.
“You are Hit...
November 25, 2005
One thing with my job is it allows me to be outside, literally beating the road almost daily in search for business. The freedom, seeing and feel of the outdoors, smell of flowers, the fumes of cars, aroma of food, meeting people, and as a form of exercise, are just few of the many benefits. Th...
November 15, 2005
Andrea Yates is in the limelight again. Reportedly, she had expressed “surprised and unpleased” at the news that The Texas Lower Court of Appeals has recently reversed her conviction for her guilt of the crime, for which she was meted with life, to guilty due to insanity. Her lawyer though had w...
November 07, 2005
Bollywood? What was that? Isn’t it Hollywood misspelled? Not a chance. It’s out there, a real celluloid central of the Asian hemisphere, now a contender of Hollywood in the filmmaking.
Formerly Mumbai, Bollywood is located in the heart of India, in Bombay. “The biggest in the world, it pro...
October 10, 2005
Mother Nature, time and time again, has demonstrated and proven to be the power to contend with, so prodigious it wrecks havoc to humanity, with suddenness, and like death, it can’t be prognosticated as to when it will specifically do its landfall.
In another awakening magnitude, Mother Nature ...
September 07, 2005
It’s peaceful at the gas pumps in San Diego and elsewhere these days, in spite of the glaring incremental, yet irreversible gas price climb. Increasing gas prices have become a perfunctory topic banners in the newspapers, discussions in radio circuits, TV forums, and seemingly for a moment, away fr...
August 12, 2005
I can’t believe what is truly going on in Philippines. As if they haven’t gotten enough turmoil to keep them appear like an accursed country, the political situation has not stabilized either, even after the popular EDSA uprising that hacked out the blight of Marcos.
Wasn’t it only an administra...
July 13, 2005
I find it very disconcerting and worrisome when I captured Bill O’Reilly, a seasoned and celebrated commentator at Fox TV, express his consternation and seeming resignation at the end of his program. They had just finished a very heated discussion about Muslim terrorism.
Also, on the heel of ano...