After the much ballyhooed “Doomsday” predicted in the Mayan calendar came and passed last December 21, 2012, many people believe that the end of the world as we knew it…
Is the Republican Party in disarray? No. Is it dysfunctional? Probably, yes. Is it crumbling? Not yet. Yes, at the rate the bloodletting is going on, the Grand Old Party…
Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong used to say, “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” It was true in his lifetime, and it was true during the reformist period…
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…
By Perry Diaz The Judicial and Bar Council’s interview of the 20 nominees to the Chief Justice position was going so well into the fourth and last day when suddenly…
PerryScope By Perry Diaz “China frigate leaves shoal: Palace happy,” said a huge electronic billboard, which I saw on the way to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to catch a…
By Perry Diaz Recently, a Manila newspaper prefaced its editorial, “The new chief justice must not be anything less than a tower of moral virtues. He must also be a…
After more than two months of standoff between the Philippines and China in the disputed Scarborough Shoal, President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III ordered the pullout of two Philippine ships from…
