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PerryScope By Perry Diaz When the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona went into a six-week recess in observance of Lent, a lot of people were saying that it seemed that the prosecution would have a hard time piercing the Corona defense with the seemingly weak evidence that they presented. Some of Corona’s rah rah boys jubilantly declared that the prosecution’s case Read More …
BY AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘Judgment or a verdict is not essentially based on evidence accepted or rejected by the court. It is based on the politics of the senator judges.’ WHEN a justice of the Supreme Court pokes a gun on the temple of the 90-year old uncle of his wife over the issue of money, such a man would never realize that he Read More …
View from Malcolm By Atty. Harry Roque Jr. Manila Standard Today The prosecutors in the on-going impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona owe the defense a mountain of gratitude. After all, it was the defense that proved what the prosecutors could not: That the chief justice has dollar deposits in the amount of— at least—$12 million, which he failed to disclose in his Statement Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star The term “Quisling” — now evolved to mean traitor — takes its roots from a Norwegian politician, Vidkun Quisling, who openly advocated for Nazi occupation of Norway after his ascension to power in February 1942. In our current row with China, several Quislings in our midst have been exposed. Many of them are Read More …
ON DISTANT SHORE By Val G. Abelgas The declaration of support by US President Barack Obama for gay marriage last week has revived the long-drawn controversy over unions between two persons belonging to the same sex. For almost two years now, the gay marriage debate has been eerily quiet while both sides awaited the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth District Read More …
25 April 2012 His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino President Republic of the Philippines Manila Re: Spratly Islands and West Philippine Sea as an International Marine Reserve Dear Mr. President: SPRATLYS AS AN INTERNATIONAL MARINE RESERVE I respectfully write as an ordinary Filipino citizen frustrated that a certain neighbor has been acting like a bully, with us on the receiving end. Aside from its incursions into Read More …
By Eric B. Apolonio Manila Standard Today FOREIGN Affairs on Monday said it does not recognize the fishing ban that China has announced over Scarborough Shoal, where Chinese and Philippine vessels have been facing off for over a month as a result of their countries’ claims to it. “Our position is we do not recognize China’s fishing ban in as much as portions of the Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star As news consumers, it’s high time that we Filipinos called to task Philippine media, especially our broadcast media that operate out of franchises that are granted by our elected representatives. Nothing could be more glaring in the misdirected sense of priorities of our media than many recent positive developments that other foreign media Read More …
Backbencher By Rod P. Kapunan Manila Standard Today The world knows the so-called “special relation” existing between the Philippines and the United States is one of a vassal and of a suzerain state. It has never been one between two sovereign states where the concept of national interest is pursued within the framework of what is mutually advantageous. It is from this context where Secretary Read More …
A Cup O’ Kapeng Barako By Jesse Jose I’ve gotten several interesting and different pro and con responses from my story last week on Referendum 74, the modern day “Inquisition” of Gays and Lesbians by the Catholic Church. These people who wrote them were not those, who we may call the average two-sentence letter-writers, but from highly-intelligent, highly-educated, prolific letter-writers. They wrote about their beliefs on this issue, as Read More …