CHICAGO (jGLi) – From the early fifties, after every time a Philippine president visited the White House in an annual ritual, he would get home to the Philippines always with a largess (U.S. foreign aid) to brag around. As a result, Filipino politicians got the impression that the Philippines and the United States really had “special relation.” But… Read More »
One that quacks like a duck and walks like a duck is certainly not a chicken. Groups that flaunt themselves as community organizations but say their financial books are private and that the public has no business to pry into them are chickens pretending to be ducks, or is it ducks pretending to be chickens? A community group… Read More »
The declaration of support by US President Barack Obama for gay marriage last week has revived the long-drawn controversy over unions between two persons belonging to the same sex. For almost two years now, the gay marriage debate has been eerily quiet while both sides awaited the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth District… Read More »
In the recent Sunday mass televised, I doff my hat to the priest who officiated. In his sermon, he decried the scenes in the Kapamilya TV drama series Dahil sa Pag-ibig and Walang Hanggan. Though he knew that the mass was aired by the said network which produces the mentioned shows, he went on to lambast the plots.… Read More »
I vividly remember what my father had shared with me when I was only in high school, life lessons that I still treasure to this day. At a young age, I realized that he valued a caring, supportive family, that he valued the important roles all mothers play. In his usual calm manner, he said, “I know that… Read More »
TORONTO – A handful of protesters, most of them Canadians of Filipino descent, marched in circles in a small fenced-off area near the Chinese consulate here on Friday (May 11) in a lackluster show of protest against the reported Chinese incursions in a contested shoal in the South China Sea. “China bully, China bully,” the less-than-two-dozen people shouted,… Read More »
The other contestants on American Idol should file a complaint against Jessica Sanchez for falsifying her age. There’s no way she’s only 16 years old. No one can be 16 and sing like that! By the time you’re reading this, American Idol (you know, that singing contest south of the border) will be very close to its finale,… Read More »
Controversial issues are always a part of American politics and no American president, famous or not famous, goes scot free with them. History will be the judge and the American people will determine whether their chief executive was right or wrong. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and Marshall Law characterized Abraham Lincoln’s administration. Richard Nixon’s… Read More »
In a novelist’s fertile imagination there’s a “Dead Poets Society.” In a mad poet’s searching mind he can ask: If there are Beauty Contests, why can’t there be an “Ugly Contest”? The poet after all is not afraid to write there is also beauty in ugliness. So also is the writer who proved Ugly Betty is not really… Read More »