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Atty Josephus Jimenez
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President Trump's immigration policies
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 28, 2025 - 12:00am
Unlike the more liberal immigration policies of the Democrats under the Biden and Obama administrations, President Donald Trump, true to his major campaign platform, is now implementing some very rigid and uncompromising...
The characters of Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 22, 2025 - 12:00am
The world of 2025 and onward is largely determined by the thoughts, ambitions, prejudices, greed, and perhaps strategic vision of three powerful men, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin.
Hilario Davide III and the greatness of the Davides
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 21, 2025 - 12:00am
I have a strong feeling that Vice Governor Hilario P. Davide, III will be the next congressman to represent the 2nd District of Cebu.
Famous and infamous criminal convictions in 2024
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 15, 2025 - 12:00am
As a professor of Law since 1977 or for 48 years now, it has become my annual routine to review landmark Supreme Court decisions for class discussions and for inclusion into my Law books published for Law students...
Suspending and removing officials in 2024
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 14, 2025 - 12:00am
This government is on a rampage suspending and ousting public officials, including those elected by millions of voters and this travesty appears more reprehensible in an election year. In election seasons, election...
The budget: a lethal weapon of political destruction
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 8, 2025 - 12:00am
Budgets can make or unmake the nation.
Outlook for 2025 geopolitics: global boom or gloom?
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 1, 2025 - 12:00am
The world will most likely navigate along the unknown waters of unpredictability in 2025 with three powerful men making disruptive decisions and taking risky actions, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinpin...
What an eventful 2024 for the Marcoses
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 31, 2024 - 12:00am
We bid farewell to 2024. This is the last day of the year which we should mark as the year that the Marcoses have gained so much legal and political mileage in the government and in our justice system.
Is today's world ready for the Messiah?
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 24, 2024 - 12:00am
Five years ago, my wife and I joined a religious pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and we did celebrate Christmas right there in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, which is currently under the control of the Palestinians,...
Ayuda for the indolent from taxes of the overworked
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am
Since our tax system is regressive, rather than progressive, most taxpayers consider taxation as a burden, a penalty for working hard and earning more, while the lazy, the inept, the indolent, and the social parasites...
Corruption in the use of calamity funds
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 17, 2024 - 12:00am
It is Christmas time and we should all be talking about joyful things.
Till ?15.18 trillion debt do us part
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am
How can this nation grow if about one-third of its annual budget is allocated for payment of our external and domestic debt, both principal and compounded interests?
Forcibly ejecting Badjaos: unchristian and illegal
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 9, 2024 - 12:00am
It is the firm conviction of this column that the public officials who caused the ejection of the Badjaos against their consent committed a gross violation against the law of God and the law of man.
Sara’s “Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune”
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 7, 2024 - 12:00am
As William Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: "To be, or not to be, that is the question, Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,...
Impeachment based on betrayal of public trust
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The president has already thumbed down the possible impeachment of the vice president.
Declaring nuisance candidates discriminatory
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - November 26, 2024 - 12:00am
No less than 117 candidates out of 187 senatorial bets had been denied their inherent right to be voted upon, simply because they are poor, and not as popular as Willy Revillame, Philip Salvador, Lito Lapid, and...
Trump's Cabinet: All neoconservative war hawks
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - November 21, 2024 - 12:00am
The kind of presidency that any new US leader will usher in the next four years can be easily discerned from the kind of personalities that he brings into his Cabinet.
What can Pinoys expect from the Trump presidency?
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - November 19, 2024 - 12:00am
There are people who said that more than 200,000 TNTs (illegal Filipino immigrants) who are now hiding in many nooks and crannies in the US are cowering in fear, worried and anxious when President Donald Trump shall...
Duterte's braggadocio versus Trillanes and De Lima
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - November 18, 2024 - 12:00am
The whole nation was glued to the TV last week as the House Quad Committee provided the people with an effective distraction from super typhoons Nica, Ofel, and Pepito, right after the first salvo of Kristine, Leon,...
Impeachment based on betrayal of public trust
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - November 13, 2024 - 12:00am
Stripped of any partisan political innuendoes and sans any of the political undertones, we should explain to the people the meaning of impeachment, and the grounds specified under the Philippine Constitution, which...
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