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Ten Commandments

TO ORDER or to direct, to ordain or to charge, to demand or to impose – all these mean to command. If man can and...

Vote selling – vote buying

LONG time since, the disturbing matter of “vote buying” has been an issue whenever elections were held in the country. This shameful phenomenon has closely...

Abortion is contraception

MASK it with such seemingly honorable words as “Reproductive Health”, although reproduction is precisely taboo and distinctly against population control that the overall intent...

Politics

THE SCIENCE of governance, the administration of public affairs, and the conduct of the affairs of the state – these are some of the...

On truth, justice, peace and dev’t

TRUTH is objective reality. It is existent actuality. While due knowledge thereof affirms its nature, implications and consequences, ignorance thereof is the big loss to...

Revising the Penal Code of the Philippines

THE EXISTING Penal Code is almost a century old legislative source and reference materials on the matter of misdeeds and punishments. The times have changed...

Why do some people steal?

DO  NOT STEAL. This is such a natural norm of conduct that no formal education is needed to be aware of it. This is an...

‘Father into Your hands I commend my spirit’

EVEN Jesus died – after proclaiming He was the Son of God, He was the Redeemer of mankind, He was the Savior of the...

Conscience

BY OSCAR CRUZ Sunday, March 18, 2018 “WALA kang consciencia!” This accusation – complaint, statement, judgment – is said or heard when someone does something plainly...

Social conscience

BY OSCAR CRUZ Sunday, March 11, 2018 “BUDHI” making a “bulong” urging an “utos” – this is “consciencia” in the common understanding of Filipinos. In other words,...