As Bongbong Marcos gears for the 2016 presidential elections, social media networking sites are littered with pro-Marcos sentiments on how prosperous the country was during the era of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. These misguided were not aware that the country at the time Marcos fled to Hawaii, was heavily in debt of US$25 Billion. The…
A Marcos loyalist had wandered into my blog and called me names: ‘gunggong’ and ‘bakla’ when I tried to compare the late dictator to the departed DILG Secretary. One is hated, the other is well-loved. He said that the comparison was way off because Marcos had the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and a Sta. Barbara nuclear…
Draw whatever conclusion you want, but the dismissal of the forfeiture proceedings against businessman tycoon Lucio Tan by the Sandiganbayan happened on President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s watch, thus damaging his ‘impact’ slogan of “Matuwid Na Daan.” Tan had survived Corazon Aquino’s (1986-1992) efforts to restore what had been stolen from the people by the Marcoses and his cronies where it…
Not in my lifetime did I dream that lead counsel Justice Serafin Cuevas could be this simpleton to commit the blunder of a neophyte trial lawyer — calling a witness he did not prep and ask her questions the answers of which he had not expected. Or perhaps, the veteran lawyer and jurist was misled by his…
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