SANDIGANBAYAN Presiding Justice Minita V. Chico Nazario has been sworn in as the newest member of the Supreme Court. In a simple oath taking ceremony held in Malacañang, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formally installed Justice Nazario as the 14th Associate Justice, filling in the vacancy created
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WHEN Marcos built "Malacañang of the North,’’ it was as a resort and not as the seat of government. But it appears that President Arroyo has that precisely in mind in her "Malacañang of the South,’’ without a single legislator questioning whether this can be done without an Act of Congress.
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THE elaborate attempts to discredit the Arroyo administration for the withdrawal of the Philippine humanitarian mission from Iraq took a new turn the other day with the critics’ repetition at every turn of the slur made by an American television talk show host about the government action.
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MUCH to my frustration, I have never been issued a traffic ticket, neither in Manila nor in Mexico, during the past three decades that I have been driving. That is not a self-serving declaration, though I am secretly convinced that I am better at the wheel than most of the arrogant hot-heads driving
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DEMOCRATIC presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry kept his choice for vice president so close to his chest that the New York Post headlined that he had chosen Dick Gebhardt, which was the hottest rumor they had before going to press. No, Kerry chose his closest rival for the Democratic nomination,
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FROM experience, Filipino politicians are for extending their stay in office. I can’t recall of any national leader who attempted to cut short a term defined by the Constitution or statute.
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MMATERIAL something plus’’ – This was the phrase coined by the late doyen of American opinion writers, Walter Lippman, as the defining aura in Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Konrad Adenauer. With indomitable courage and clarity of vision, these towering figures in contemporary history, to
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ONCE a year on July 14, Bastille Day, Paris, the City of Lights, dims its lights to signal the summer exodus of Parisians to all points in France, and clogging up all exits out of the city, and almost always claiming several multi-vehicle smashups on the highways as Parisians speed off to their vari
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AMONG the many rights we enjoy in freedom, there is one that is as basic as the rest. While all of us are aware of our right to life, bodily integrity, and the means to secure our continuing personal development, few are aware of our right to solidarity. Simply put, this right to solidarity gives us
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A STRONG republic under a strong presidency is how President Arroyo says it. It could also be said the other way around, i.e., a strong presidency under a strong republic. The critical factor in this combination is the presidency. If the presidency is weak, we cannot expect the republic to be strong
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Matthew 12:46-50
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