Political radical, Englishman Philosopher Jeremy Bentham advocated a classic anvil upon which the sword of public policy should be tooled and retooled. Bentham said: ‘it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong …” Later on, I read its deviant as the greatest good for the greatest number should be… Read More »
Q. Dear Atty.Wong, I have always read your column with interest and now I have some issues which I hope you can answer. I need your help. I came to Canada in 1974. I’m now a Canadian Citizen, have dual citizenships (Filipino/Canadian), married to natural-born Canadian citizen. We have two adult children, born in Canada. Back in the… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – Maybe former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was right when he suggested that President Obama should have taken care of passing the divisive Comprehensive Immigration Reform as his first major, major administration program in his first two years of office. But if Mr. Obama did what Mr. Romney said, Mr. Obama might not be helping himself.… Read More »
We do not need to be told. We open our eyes in the morning at six o’ clock and it is still dark it is not even six in the evening and the sun has set. We feel winter coming in the brisk icy wind that seeps into our bones and makes the leaves fall in multicolours of… Read More »
Apparitions of non-Divine spirits cause so much fear to anyone for the reason of lack of understanding about the spirits of those who died ahead or what we commonly know as ghost. AVV1012 It is almost Halloween. From Eastern culture to Western belief it is widely accepted that during this time, the gate of hell, heaven, the undead,… Read More »
The circus is in town. The game is on. Let the games begin. However you see it, the circus or game called Philippine election is back with all its hoopla and hullabaloo. That the elections would be just another game of the entrenched politicians was evident on the first day of filing for the certificates of candidacy. Chairman… Read More »
MANILA The seasonal madness that engulfs the Philippines is upon us again, its election time once more. Unfortunately, the list of candidates isn’t inspiring. Actually it’s depressing. On the first week of October, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) here opened its doors to would-be candidates, filing their certificates of candidacy for the positions of senators, congressmen, governors, mayors,… Read More »
Q. Hello Atty. Wong. I had consulted you before through your column Batas Pinoy Corner of which I’m so much satisfied with your answers. I would like again to have your views about our Inherited properties as follows : 1. Our parents are both now in their second life and they left us a parcel of land with… Read More »
HELLO, TORONTO! First, Comm. Kim Henares of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expressed her feelings of betrayal over a favoured Senate version by Sen. Ralph Recto of the Sin Tax Bill. If approved, the Recto version would greatly reduce the projected government income through sin tax from 60 to 15 billion pesos (Php 60billion down to Php 15billion).… Read More »