May 19, 2023 | Opinion, Razor's Edge
When Leila de Lima and the Commission on Human Rights were investigating the Davao Death Squad right at the belly of the beast Davao City in 2009, they obtained a search warrant from the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 34 to inspect what confessed DDS hitmen...
Apr 25, 2023 | Opinion, Razor's Edge
It took a meeting of parliamentarians in far-away St. Petersburg, Russia on Oct. 18, 2017, to help open the gates of world consciousness on Leila de Lima’s incarceration. That meeting was of the governing council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.What exactly is the...
Apr 12, 2023 | Opinion, Razor's Edge
At the rate senators are mouthing absurdities, rationalizing the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) or the mandatory physical military training in college has become an act of sheer idiocy.The justification always given – to instill love of country...
Mar 27, 2023 | Opinion, Razor's Edge
On October 22, 1940, the Supreme Court acquitted Ferdinand Marcos, his father Mariano, his father’s brother in-law Quirino Lizardo, and Mariano’s brother Pio from the charge of murdering Julio Nalundasan.The facts of the case are well known: Nalundasan was murdered by...
Mar 11, 2023 | Opinion, Razor's Edge
The House of Representatives, bent on legislating a bill that will call for a constitutional convention, is giving mixed signals. Are they hiding the real intention?The speaker of the House said on March 6 that the lower house aims to limit its Charter amendments to...
Feb 24, 2023 | Opinion, Razor's Edge
1News of New Zealand reported this week that its citizen Nicolas Peter Stacey, 34 years old, was shot dead in Makati City while visiting the Philippines as a tourist. Stacey was walking home with his girlfriend when two men on motorcycle disembarked and attempted to...