Katataspulong

It is understandable if the likes of Jejomar Binay or JV Ejercito keep their swashbuckling animus while the object of their best punch remains standing. They are now back on the drawing board charting how best to politically decapitate their target. While the budget...

Since the death of FPJ, the Mayor of Makati has lent his visibility and probably leadership in the rudderless opposition ship. The competing irresistible forces of the camps of two high profile senators, who are both presidential wannabes, have rent asunder a model...

Had the 2004 elections been computerized and not conducted in what observers then called the archaic system of manual counting, today's allegations of cheating and rigging would simply be baseless. It is disturbing (but also revealing) that hardly anyone is...

Recently, when I e-mailed a long-lost friend who is now based in America, he asked me how life is today in his old Philippines. He told me he hasn't been here for the last 30 years. Of course he told me that he is kept posted on the developments hereabouts via the...

This year is the 25th anniversary of my lawyering. Not a single day interrupted my continuous trial life as an attorney. While I had my foray in government service for six years, the law did not forbid from practicing  my profession. For ten years from taking my oath...

(NOTE: I received the following unedited email recently from a friend based in California whom I have not heard from for the last 31 years. The death of a fraternity brother induced the exchange of emails.) Dear Sonny, I have been informed of important news about tom...

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) Hands down, there is no debate that we live in a poor country. In Quezon, we have meager resources. Yet, if one looks around, there is something...

Return on Investment (ROI) is the old formula of computing how much an investor gets from his investment where we look at the quotient of net income over total capital. The higher the ROI, the profitable the business. But this method of computation is inapplicable to...

THE BOHOL AND QUEZON TRAGEDIES In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst - OSCAR WILDE They could have been averted if not their effects diminished had the local government units...