PerryScope by Perry Diaz My instant reaction would be: Hell, yes! But after really thinking about it, it is not an issue in this year’s presidential election. It has never been an election issue since the Rescission Act of 1946. I know that this is probably the boldest and perhaps the craziest reaction of a [...]
Perryscope By Perry Diaz Across America, the Roman Catholic Church has been going through a change — a rejuvenation. The aging priests are being replaced by young ones and attendance in the Mass has increased. What is interesting is that the aging priests, mostly of Irish descent, are getting their replacements from a growing number [...]
Perryscope By Perry Diaz The word “barangay” as we know it today was different in the pre-Hispanic era. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the word “barangay” is derived from “balangay,” the name for the sailboats that brought the Malays from Borneo to the Philippines. Each “balangay” carried a large family group led by a leader called [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz In 1976, a Filipino-American lawyer ran for mayor of Monterey Park, California, a Los Angeles suburb — and won! Mayor Monty Manibog served for three terms until 1988. Monterey Park at that time didn’t have a Filipino-American community. In 1986, a young first-generation Filipino-American in a small New England town ran [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz If the election was held today, Bush would have won with 321 electoral votes over John Kerry’s 200 electoral votes. To win, Bush only needed 270 electoral votes. That’s a 51 electoral vote margin that provides Bush with a comfortable buffer between now and November 2, 2004. Of the 11 battleground [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz Philippine history books have rarely mentioned our colonial relations with Mexico. Nueva Espana, as Mexico was named then, was seen as another colony of Spain. True. Both colonies were “discovered” in 1521 by Spanish conquistadors. Ferdinand Magellan — who “discovered” the Philippines – was killed in the island of Mactan by [...]
