I just came from a brief trip to the Philippines with my wife to be with her mother on the latter’s 89th birthday, and like most who have recently been to the homeland, the horrendous traffic marred an otherwise eventful visit. A trip from a western point in Manila and Quezon City to the Makati Financial District would… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – When Senator John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States, it was the inventor of television, who got the credit. When Donald Trump was elected president last week, it was not just his Twitter and the social media that carried him as The Donald claimed afterwards. I think it was actually a slogan… Read More »
They call themselves “Honorable” and want to be addressed your honor at the end of every statement. And yet for seven agonizing hours, the congressmen at the hearing of the Committee on Justice showed the nation why bloggers have called their place of work the “Bastusang Pambansa” because that’s what they did last Thursday – to embarrass the… Read More »
The decision by the Supreme Court for the former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos is squarely being challenged by Filipinos all over the world. While some may have thought that martial law events were forgotten, it is now loud and clear that they remain vivid in people’s memories. I personally do not believe that this is a personal war… Read More »
Seven years since 58 people, including 32 journalists, were slaughtered in what has been infamously called “Ampatuan Massacre” or “Maguindanao Massacre,” not one of the 197 accused have been found guilty. Four of the accused have since died, including the suspected mastermind, then Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. Of the 193 remaining accused, including 28 bearing the name… Read More »
News these days are so unusual! For the first time in American history, people are protesting the presidential election results. Donald Trump’s surprise win has so shocked the nation, about half of them, those who did not vote for him are not ready to accept it. So now, they are out in the streets in many cities to… Read More »
The killing of Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa was so brazen, and the excuse given by the police officers for the slaying so ridiculous, there is absolutely no reason for government authorities not to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation of the incident. Why was Espinosa suddenly so brave and reckless to shoot at lawmen when just a few… Read More »
It’s unprecedented in Philippine political history that in four months’ time a new president has become the object of serious criticism. Even the unwanted (by the intelligent class) Joseph “Erap” Estrada didn’t suffer such dislike in his time. In the presidential campaign of 1998, the masses were not only willing to vote for Estrada, they were quite eager… Read More »
They’ve been killing people here for the past three months. The sober-minded plead for a return to sanity while the shrill continue their defense of President Duterte. After an earlier collective silence from the public over all the summary killings, now comes a growing sentiment that the country may be going in the wrong direction. There’s a burgeoning… Read More »
Stripped of immunity and entitlements, former President Benigno S. Aquino III and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad Jr. have finally been criminally charged for their roles in the notorious Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which the Supreme Court had declared as unconstitutional and illegal in 2014. Ten militant groups charged Aquino and Abad with technical malversation of public funds,… Read More »