The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many…
My good friend and a classmate in college, Walter T. Young had wandered into my blog. I didn’t know that he was a Marcos believer. I take the liberty of posting here part of Mrs. Carmen Guerrero Nakpil’s trilogy which is kept in Presidential Museum and Library and shared in the timelines of some Facebook…
Richard Holbrooke’s Note to the Readers of his book, “To End A War” is a wise counsel to young politicians – it may as well serve as a valuable advice to young Filipino politicians. With the pragmatism of old politicians and their corrupt ways, Rizal could still be relevant in his hope that the youth…
Jeffrey or Jennifer Laude, a transgender was a victim of a hate crime and VP Jejomar Binay was poor man being persecuted by the rich mestizos in the Senate. These are two high profile national narratives that don’t get much traction in the print media and the social networking sites. You just have to read…
One can understand why the New York Times was bad mouthing President Benigno Simeon Aquino. He did not bring business to New York. The crooks did. More crooks in the mold of the Marcoses, stealing from the Filipinos and splurging those stolen millions in this sleepless city, means more business for New York. “One winter morning…
Some 8509 miles from across the globe, New York Times counseled President Benigno Simeon Aquino to step down from power after 2016 because the fragile democracy in the country is in peril if he amends the constitution to run again and to clip the powers of the Supreme Court. This unsolicited advice betrays a certain…
Filipinos value the American constitutional traditions but are turned off by the fundamental mechanics that nurture these constitutional values. Part of this “value” recognition is the habit of the Supreme Court of the Philippines to cite American jurisprudence on constitutional law whenever it is confronted with constitutional questions itself. The classic case of Marbury v. Madison…
A cacophony of discordant voices were echoed over the issue of proposing amendments to the 1987 constitution to clip the powers of the Supreme Court and to allow the President Benigno Simeon Aquino to run for a second term. The 1987 constitution allows amendments to the constitution. It is within the power of the legislative branch to…
In the light of what I called the overreaching of the judiciary on purely executive terrain as the implementation of the Development Acceleration Program of the incumbent administration (DAP an economic/policy issue and not a judicial issue), I would like to share the summary of Coercing Virtue by Robert H. Bork printed on the dust jacket…
The executive department is accountable to the people, the judiciary is not. Its power must not be co-equal with the President, if we have to maintain the principle that sovereignty resides in the people. That, in gist is a Jeffersonian philosophy. The spirit of republicanism is essentially this: every empowered bureaucrat should be within the…
Viewpoint Neutral 