Proposals to bring back the death penalty in the Philippines were revived last week following the gruesome killing of UST honor graduate Cyrish Magalang in Cavite. Magalang was stabbed 49 times. In California, it is the other way around. Proposition 34, which was one of several people’s initiatives up for approval or rejection by voters last Tuesday, sought… Read More »
If you can make more people believe you than those who do not believe, you can still be elected as president of the most powerful country in the world: the United States of America. That is how democracy works – the majority wins. Never mind, how small or large is the majority-This time it was 50% to 49%.… Read More »
It is usual for Filipinos to jump with glee whenever someone Filipino, even with just a tiny drop of brown blood running in his veins, achieves a feat. In the recent elections in the US of A, news reports say thirteen Filipino-Americans won the seats they vied for, some in the national level others in their own States.… Read More »
Seems that your Canadian Prime Minister’s short visit to the Philippines was fruitful. PM Stephen Harper and his lean team planed in to the Philippines a week ago (Nov. 9). He is only the 2nd Canadian head of state to have come to the country. Our first Canadian PM visitor came in 1997 when then PM Jean Chretien… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – It was already 7 p.m. Central Time in Chicago, Illinois Tuesday Election Night (Nov. 6) and even television and Internet sources are already projecting Mr. Obama ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, yet the Obama campaign was still urging volunteers to make phone calls to voters in swing states. This is one of the… Read More »
MANILA The principal architect and administrator of Ferdinand Marcos’s martial rule in the Philippines is out to revise history. And he might succeed in doing so. Juan Ponce Enrile, currently the Senate President here, has just written his memoirs. In it, reports say, he washes his hands of all liability for the evils that martial rule wrought on… Read More »
Once again, the Filipino-American vote did not show on the radar screen during the recent presidential election. Yes, unlike in past presidential elections, the Fil-Am vote was virtually invisible this year. There were no organized national efforts from the Fil-Am Democrats and Republicans. And if there were, I didn’t see them. In a survey conducted by the National… Read More »
For the first time since the end of World War II, the United States achieved a state of relative peace in the world. President Barack Obama’s timetable of withdrawing American combat forces from Afghanistan by 2014 would mark the end of a century of warfare that began in 1914 when World War I erupted. Yes, the elusive dream… Read More »
There have been calls for the abolition of the party-list system in the Philippines from several quarters, foremost of which is from my good friend and former boss at the defunct Daily Express, now Inquirer columnist Neal H. Cruz. Neal pointed out that 99% of the accredited party-list groups do not represent the marginalized sectors of society and… Read More »
“Today is a great day of hope. A day which sees the dawn of a new beginning for the people of Mindanao,” thus said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak during the signing of the Framework Agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. With those simple, yet eloquent words, the Malaysian prime minister, whose… Read More »