Ms. Janet Napoles, the controversial suspect in the multi-million scam of Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) must have been charmed by the UP law Batch 78, — she has two members of this class as her lawyers. Lorna Kapunan, who until recently retired as her lawyer, was a member of that class; the other, Rene…
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…
CJ Renato Corona remains confident, at times, combative, despite seemingly overwhelming evidence about his character not befitting that of the jurist of the Supreme Court. The reason — he and his lawyers are Marxists, who believe in their own lies! “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Lenin. CJ Corona has no moral and…
Our collective memories are not only short but malleable to the machinations of those who wanted to profit from the fall of the late dictator Mr. Marcos in 1986. Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Gregorio Honasan and former President Fidel Ramos are not heroes of EDSA 1, but its villains. They were Marcos martial law implementers whose participation in…
Watching Senator Gringo Honasan interpellating Secretary of Justice Lila De Lima during the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona yesterday about affording even a lowly citizen his constitutional rights to life, liberty and property as the very basis of the existence of any government gave me goose pimples. Rolando Olalia must be twisting in his grave! God Save The Queen…
Some people I have considered literate had been taken for a hilarious ride by the Magdalo Group of soldiers. The Magdalo Group is version 2 of RAM (Reform the Armed Forces Movement) by Senator Gregorio Honasan and the members of this group are transactional operators just like RAM members; they too are brash, ambitious, adventurous…
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