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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

A RIZAL MUSICAL IN SEARCH OF ACTORS



CHICAGO (jGLi) -- Jose Rizal stopped by Chicago, Illinois for about 10 hours on May 11, 1888, exactly 123 years ago to the day last May 11, while taking a transcontinental train across the U.S. mainland en route to Europe.

Rizal took the trip following the advice of Spanish Governor-General Emilio Terrero to leave the Philippines or be persecuted at home for exposing the abuses of the Spanish friars in colonial Philippi...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

A RIZAL MUSICAL IN SEARCH OF CHARACTERS


CHICAGO (jGLi) -- Jose Rizal stopped by Chicago, Illinois for about 10 hours on May 11, 1888, exactly 123 years ago to the day last May 11, while taking a transcontinental train across the U.S. mainland en route to Europe.

Rizal took the trip following the advice of Spanish Governor-General Emilio Terrero to leave the Philippines or be persecuted at home for exposing the abuses of the Spanish friars in colonial Phil...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Fil Am Children At Higher Risk of Kawasaki Disease

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) -- Filipino children in San Diego, California are found to be at higher risk to contract Kawasaki Disease, a heart disease that causes sudden death among children, than non-Filipinos.

While children of all ethnicities can contract Kawasaki disease (KD), a study led by researchers at the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at the University of California, San ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Referee Should Have Reviewed Pacquiao’s “Knock Down,” Says David Diaz’s Boxing Manager

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

with 2 photos


CHICAGO (jGLi) – Referee Kenny Bayless should not have apologized after the 12 rounds of the welterweight bout for his mistaken call that Filipino pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao was knocked down in the 10th round in Pacquiao’s lopsided win over American champion Sugar Shane Mosley last Saturday (May 7) ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Judge Affirms Ruling Vs. Filipino Teachers’ Recruiter

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – A Baton Rouge civil court district judge in Louisiana has affirmed an administrative judge’s ruling against a Filipino woman recruiter whose California-based recruiting company was ordered to pay an “estimated $1.8 million in illegally charged placement fees, as well as a $500 fine and $7,500 in attorney fees.”

The recruiter allegedly cheate...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

OBAMA ANWERS “3 A.M.” CALL

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) –  In the heat of the 2008 presidential primary election campaign, Hillary Clinton fielded a campaign ad, which featured a telephone ringing at 3 a.m. It promoted the idea that Barack Obama was not prepared to pick up the call at a critical hour. It was telling American primary voters that in case a crisis would develop, she wanted them to know that the inexperienced Illinois senator was not ready to respo...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : JGL Eye 
 


Michael Ray Aquino Has 90 Days To Appeal His Case Before The U.S. Supreme Court

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – The noose is tightening around the neck of former Philippine police officer Michael Ray B. Aquino.

Mr. Aquino has 90 calendar days, including weekends and holidays, within which to file a petition for a writ of certiorari before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., following the denial Monday (April 25) of ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

IMPACT OF WILKATE’S ROYAL WEDDING ON OFW’S

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – The British Royal Wedding of Prince Williams to Kate Middleton may be an odd curiosity to the world community outside the British Commonwealth of Nations but it carries a powerful message for overseas Filipino workers (OFW’s).

Since it is not a state event, the wedding of the century may not include the most powerful man in the world in Presi...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Oral Argument on Filvets Case Set

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Do the Filipino World War II veterans have the right to question the constitutionality of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 when they failed to receive their $15,000 lump sum benefits because their names are not in the “Missouri List”?
This question is one of the issues up before Judge Saundra B. Armstrong of the United States District Court o...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA
 
SANTACRUZAN COMES TO CHICAGO
 
CHICAGO (jGLi) – It must have been very tough struggle for man to move about in the early days that they resorted to clinging on some outside power for support.
This illusion of relying for support from a supreme being must have been described by Karl Marx as the “opium of the people.” It’s like grasping from straws (kapit sa patalim) when chips were down. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart...

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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


MICHAEL RAY AQUINO WANTS U.S. COURT TO ABIDE BY PH COURT’S RULING

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Up until before the outbreak of World War II, the United States Supreme Court had jurisdiction over the Philippine Supreme Court as the Philippines was still a Commonwealth of the U.S.

But after the Philippines gained its independence from the U.S., the Philippine Supreme Court is no longer bound by the U.S. Supreme Court although it i...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, May 5, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

FOR THE LOVE OF BIKOL CULTURE AND ITS PEOPLE

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – When Philippine’s national hero Jose Rizal said, “Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay daig pa ang amoy ng mabahong isda,” (those who do not love their language evinces a smell worse than a rotten fish), perhaps, it also applies to other native cultures and traditions.

Perhaps, Rizal was meaning to say that one could absorb the cultures of others.  But these newfound cultures shoul...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, April 25, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Filipino Veterans Under-Equipped Yet Treat Wounded Enemies During WW II

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

With 1 photo

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) –  A Filipino veteran said here that despite being unequipped, they were still assigned in the frontlines during World War II. And yet their services were never recognized by the American people.

“We were armed with vintage Springfield rifles used during World War I and used by Philippine campaigner American Gen. J...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, April 25, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


2 Fil Ams Win in Tuesday’s Election in Illinois

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

with 2 photos

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Two Filipino Americans – a doctor of medicine and veteran community organizer – were among the winners in the local government consolidated elections last April 5 in Cook County, Illinois.

Incumbent Skokie Park District Commissioner and Vice President Jerry B. Clarito was re-elected to a six-year term as commissioner, collecting 1,...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, April 25, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Child Soldiers Recruited by NPA, ASG, MILF

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Rogue elements of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and the New People’s Army (NPA) were recruiting children for combat and noncombat duties.

While the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), an independent government agency, believes personnel from the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Sunday, April 10, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

HOW REDISTRICTING HELPED OBAMA

 

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – In the United States, this is the year after every ten years when minorities stir to life to discuss their political future.

This is the year following the decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution to apportion the number of members of the United States House of Representatives among the several states. Census statistics are also used in order to apportion federal funding for many s...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Sunday, April 10, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


New York DA Liable For Misconduct in Sentosa Case

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – When District Attorney Thomas J. Spota III of Suffolk County, New York initiated police investigation after the Suffolk police declined to go after the Filipino nurses, who resigned their jobs to protest their working conditions exactly five years ago on April 7, Spota was liable for violating the Filipino nurses’ 14th Amendment right from being arrest...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

SEN. LACSON EMPLOYS CLINTONIAN LOGIC

 

CHICAGO (jGLi)  -- Former President Bill Clinton cleverly employed the parsing of the English language in hiding his infidelities as the United States Senate acquitted him during the trial in the Monica Lewinsky Scandal after the U.S. House of Representatives impeached him on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1998.

When he was asked by a grand jury about why he was not lying when he said to his top ai...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


$120-M Civil Case Against Erap, Et al. in US May Be Dismissed

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Former Philippine President Joseph “Erap” Estrada, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and other defendants may yet get off the hook from the $120-million civil suit pending before the United States District Court in Northern California in San Francisco by doing nothing.

In a minute order, Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has ordered the lawy...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By Joseph G. Lariosa

 

FILIPINOS SHOULD BE SELF-RELIANT

 

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.  Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Every time, there is a disaster, Filipinos always turn to Philippine Red Cross or the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Non-Government Organizations or Overseas Filipinos for help and not to themselves.

This Filipino culture of waiting for dole outs during...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By Joseph G. Lariosa

 

FILIPINOS SHOULD BE SELF-RELIANT

 

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.  Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Every time, there is a disaster, Filipinos always turn to Philippine Red Cross or the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Non-Government Organizations or Overseas Filipinos for help and not to themselves.

This Filipino culture of waiting for dole outs during...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By Joseph G. Lariosa

 

FILIPINOS SHOULD BE SELF-RELIANT

 

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.  Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Every time, there is a disaster, Filipinos always turn to Philippine Red Cross or the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Non-Government Organizations or Overseas Filipinos for help and not to themselves.

This Filipino culture of waiting for dole outs during...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

Japan's Earthquake Sidetracks Libyan Crisis

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – The Disaster in Japan is by no means a devastating event that would be the last thing anybody would ever want to have.

As misfortunes go, this will probably be one of those moments that will melt everybody’s heart and would prompt us to extend whatever help we can give.

Even if a country is as rich as Japan, a neighbor is bound to help or empathize with it. The nuclear meltdown in Japan is ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

Japan's Earthquake Sidetracks Libyan Crisis

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – The Disaster in Japan is by no means a devastating event that would be the last thing anybody would ever want to have.

As misfortunes go, this will probably be one of those moments that will melt everybody’s heart and would prompt us to extend whatever help we can give.

Even if a country is as rich as Japan, a neighbor is bound to help or empathize with it. The nuclear meltdown in Japan is ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, March 3, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

 

25 YEARS AGO

U.S. Envoy Tells Marcos: “Abdicate or Kill Yourself!”

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – At about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1986 (Manila time) (3 p.m. EST, Feb. 24, Monday), President Marcos had just hanged up his phone after taking a call from Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt (Rep.).

Mr. Marcos must not have returned to bed anymore because three and a half hours later at 7:30 a.m., Philip Habib, President Reagan’s special envoy, arrived at Malacanang ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

 

25 YEARS AGO

U.S. Envoy Tells Marcos: “Abdicate or Kill Yourself!”

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – At about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1986 (Manila time) (3 p.m. EST, Feb. 24, Monday), President Marcos had just hanged up his phone after taking a call from Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt (Rep.).

Mr. Marcos must not have returned to bed anymore because three and a half hours later at 7:30 a.m., Philip Habib, President Reagan’s special envoy, arrived at Malacanang ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, February 21, 2011, In : JGL Eye 



JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G LARIOSA

 

FRANKENSTEIN NOW A SENIOR CITIZEN

 

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – If the Rescission Act of 1946 were a two-legged animal, it would not be a man but a monster.

It is a Frankenstein created and passed by the 79th U.S. Congress when it was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman 65 years ago on Friday, Feb. 18. This Act deprived Filipino veterans from receiving benefits for their services during World War II based on the Selective Service Training Act enforced ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, February 21, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


Manny Pacquiao Prefers To Be An Anonymous Donor

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

(© 2011 Journal Group Link International)


CHICAGO (jGLi) -- Manny Pacquiao is well known for using both hands in crafting his super-success story.

And Manny’s God-fearing ways are legendary when he makes the sign of the cross before and after he faces his opponent in the ring.

But like a God-fearing gladiator, the eight-division boxing world champion wants to keep up with what the Bible (Matthew 6:3) says, “When ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, February 21, 2011, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA


PHL CONGRESS SHOULD FINISH ITS BUSINESS


CHICAGO (jGLi) – Does work go on in Philippine Congress after Philippine Defense Secretary Angelo T. Reyes committed suicide?

No question.

One very public suicide of a U.S government official blamed the U.S. court system for convicting him, as a victim of “political persecution.” But it did not stop the court from dispensing justice after shooting himself in the mouth before horrified reporters attending his p...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, February 21, 2011, In : JGL Eye 



JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA


PHL CONGRESS SHOULD FINISH ITS BUSINESS


CHICAGO (jGLi) – Does work go on in Philippine Congress after Philippine Defense Secretary Angelo T. Reyes committed suicide?

No question.

One very public suicide of a U.S government official blamed the U.S. court system for convicting him, as a victim of “political persecution.” But it did not stop the court from dispensing justice after shooting himself in the mouth before horrified reporters attending his p...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, February 7, 2011, In : JGL Eye 

                            
 

JGL Eye

 

BLIZZARD VS. TYPHOON: WILL YOU TAKE YOUR PICK?

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – The Blizzard of 2011 that engulfed Chicago and environs once again reminds us that there is God.

Maybe, God is jealous that people no longer consider Him the center of our attention. And dumping tons of snow all over the vast swath of the United States sends a signal that everyone should take a breather and focus his attention to Him.

Because it is very hard...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, January 29, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

A $300K HOUSE IN U.S., PEANUTS FOR PHL CUSTOMS OFFICIAL 

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – I have been dismissing rumors a few months ago of a former Philippine Customs commissioner, who bought a house for $300,000 in cash in California.

But the latest problem facing a Chicago, Illinois-based freight forwarder could give us a clue that the rumor against this Philippine Customs commissioner under former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo could be true after ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, January 21, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) -- Some media handlers of local politicians are not doing their clients a favor.

They are not ready for change.

They are still hanging on the old school of thought that the traditional mainstream media are still the gatekeeper in this age of the Internet.

They think the print media and the on-air television networks are still the wave of the future.

Perhaps, this was so ten or so years ago.

But not anymore.

...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, January 21, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) -- Some media handlers of local politicians are not doing their clients a favor.

They are not ready for change.

They are still hanging on the old school of thought that the traditional mainstream media are still the gatekeeper in this age of the Internet.

They think the print media and the on-air television networks are still the wave of the future.

Perhaps, this was so ten or so years ago.

But not anymore.

...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Monday, January 17, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

OF FOODS AND BOOKS

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – There are times in a columnist’s life like today when there is a glut in the news  -- yet it is a slow-news day.

And this gives me a reason to pause so I can review emails in my folder that has been in a holding pattern for some time and is waiting for my attention.

After taking up the mining issues in my maternal hometown of Matnog, Sorsogon in the Philippines in my last column, I would like to stay around a li...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, January 8, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

IN PHL, CRIME ALSO PAYS

 

CHICAGO, Illinois (jGLi) – I don’t want to raise the level of a debate in the Philippines as some country being run by theocrats.

Not because 80 percent of the population are Roman Catholics.  But because its Constitution recognizes the separation of Church and State.

But sometimes when laws seem to be irrelevant to some defendants like Gen. Carlos F. Garcia, it will not hurt if we draw inspiration from other sources that a...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, January 8, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

IN PHL, CRIME ALSO PAYS

 

CHICAGO, Illinois (jGLi) – I don’t want to raise the level of a debate in the Philippines as some country being run by theocrats.

Not because 80 percent of the population are Roman Catholics.  But because its Constitution recognizes the separation of Church and State.

But sometimes when laws seem to be irrelevant to some defendants like Gen. Carlos F. Garcia, it will not hurt if we draw inspiration from other sources that a...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, January 8, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

CARPETBAGGERS BACK OFF MY BOYHOOD TOWN!

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – When I was a young boy vacationing in the native town of my mother, Consolacion G. Garra, in Matnog, Sorsogon, Luzon’s gateway to Southern Philippines, I always wondered why its white beaches had sprinklings of black sands.

It turned out those black sands are called “margahas,” which I later came to know as magnetite sands.

With no money to buy toys, we used these margahas to entertain u...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, January 8, 2011, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

YES, FOLKS, THERE IS SANTA CLAUS!

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Christmas normally means a time of reunion and bonding by loved ones.

That’s why you hear and learn about a lot of people going home for Christmas or hearing the popular carol, “I’ll be home for Christmas.”

Just turn on your television sets or access the Internet or page through the newspaper headlines and you will see a lot of people heading to the airports or in the case of the Philippines...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, December 18, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye

 

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

SIMBANG GABI, A TIMELESS TRADITION

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – My friends out west in the warmer climes of California would often tell me to get out of the wintry Windy City and come to the Golden State to become their neighbors. But I often tell them I may someday soon.

And this feeling of dreaming a balmy weather becomes more acute during the Christmas season. Especially when I am reminded of the Dawn Mass (Simbang Gabi) that kicks off the 16-day wait to u...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, December 10, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA
 
PHL DOJ SLEEPING ON THE JOB
 
CHICAGO (jGLi) – When I broke the story in my outlets that the United States seized $100,000 from the two sons of Filipino Major General Carlos Garcia last Nov. 10, 2010 as ordered by the court, I also mentioned that the “court also ordered the publication of the forfeiture notice on its government website for at least 30 days to give ‘any person other than the defendants, having or claiming a legal interest’ in the forfeited pro...

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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, December 4, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

JGL EYE

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

THE “PHL” HAS IT

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – There is no doubt symbols, abbreviations and codes were among the best known methods used by man to get ahead of the competition and to get his message around.

There was Constantine, the first Christian ruler, who said, “In Hoc Signos Vinces!” (In This Sign, Ye Shall Conquer), as he told his soldiers to paint the cross symbols on their shields.

Facing Maxentius and his soldiers four times in number than his,...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, November 27, 2010, In : JGL Eye 


JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

PH CONGRESS SHOULD PASS “HEARSAY LAW”

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – One of the surviving victims of the Maguindanao Massacre is frustrated that her father is not being considered as one of the journalist victims massacred in Maguindanao a year ago.
In an email to this columnist, Reynafe “Nenen” Momay-Castillo, a registered nurse, wants to take matters into her own hand so she can prove that her father, Renato “Bebot” Reynafe, a photographer of Midland Review, ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, November 20, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

EIGHT IS ENOUGH

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Manny Pacquiao's latest and perhaps his greatest triumph over Mexican champion Antonio Margarito had just shown that he has nothing to prove anymore.

The Filipino wonder should now start listening seriously to his mother, Dionisia, that he hangs up his glove. This has been my stand several columns ago.

In fact, I agree with a disinterested observer, Roger F. Maslon, a French-born Polish American, who is not a boxing ...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Saturday, November 13, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

Filvets Still Long For Recognition

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Despite the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) last year, recognizing the services of Filipino veterans during World War II, many Filipino veterans still feel as odd men out in the celebration of Veterans Day in the U.S. Thursday (Nov. 11) this year.

When I suggested to the organizers of the launching of the book, “Unrecognized American Veterans” written by Arturo P. Ga...


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JGL Eye

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

ON PLAGIARISM II: Absence of Copyright (©) Notice Does Not Bar Liability

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) –If a writer, like a journalist, reads an information from a source, like a book, magazine, newspaper or Internet, he cannot just copy and reproduce it in another publication or outlet without citing the original name of the author, publication and other information, like the date of publication and page number or the website address.

If the word, for instance, bei...


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JGL EYE

Posted by Batas Internet Media on Thursday, October 28, 2010, In : JGL Eye 







 

JGL Eye
By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA

 

"BORROWED WORDS, IDEAS" ARE PLAGIARISM

 

             “Plagiarism is unacceptable in any grammar school, college, or law school, and even in politics. It is   
                    wholly intolerable 
in the practice of law.”

         n  DeWilde vs. Gannett Publishing, 797 F. Supp. 55, 56 (D. Maine, 1992)
           

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Plagiarism is to writers as breaking the vow of celibacy is to priests, Catholic priests, that is.

The mome...


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Posted by Batas Internet Media on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, In : JGL Eye 

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Joseph G. Lariosa

 

WRONGFUL DEATH CLAIMS VS. RP GOVERNMENT?

 

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Now that President Noynoy Aquino has finally decided to file charges against those responsible for the botched hostage incident at Luneta (Rizal Park) last Aug. 23, the Philippine government should brace itself for the damage suits that the survivors of the victims will be bringing against it.

Senate Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada was one of at least two senators who had suggested that the Philippine ...


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