It’s difficult not to sympathize with Lauro Vizconde. I am a widower myself, although my wife succumbed to cancer. It’s not so much that I miss her, but what could have been had she lived longer. I feel there could have still been much to do and that I have not known her that well [...]

Once again the Vizconde Massacre is front page news. The Supreme Court is deliberating whether or not to uphold a court of appeals ruling to send Hubert Webb and others to a life sentence for the murder of Estrellita Vizconde and her daughters Carmela, 18, and Jennifer, 7, in June 1991. Lauro Vizconde, the husband [...]

Filipinos are shocked and are raging inside. And we have been waiting for three days for arrests to be made. But all we are hearing are sound bites from Malacañang. GMA is talking tough but nothing is happening. Perhaps she can do nothing after helping to create the monster that is the Ampatuan clan. They [...]

DOJ Sec. Raul Gonzalez, whose senility is getting the better of him as each day passes, must want to be no. 1 Twerp of the Year for 2009 (he holds no. 6). He’s now advocating that top officials of the PDEA also go on leave after his own prosecutors went on leave. Let’s see now, [...]

In a previous blog I had hoped that Antonio Trillanes’ idealism would make him a good senator in spite of my doubts that he was merely a pawn. Read it here. Now, I’m convinced, without a shadow of doubt, he’s a pawn. His latest misadventure establishes that. His financiers probably used him like a guinea [...]