Republicanism in this country is the aloofness of the Supreme Court from the political departments and its superior respectability compared to the accommodating availability of the President of the Philippines and Congress to the importunate electorate and their dependence on its capricious goodwill.
I had a colleague on the Court who during the more than eight [...]

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday night received ‘priya Gujarati’ title based on an opinion poll conducted by a television channel.
Out of the nine contestants for the poll, conducted by E-TV Gujarati, Modi bagged 82 per cent votes to emerge on the top, said Chairman of the E-TV Group Ramoji Rao before the presentation [...]

High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what [...]

THE Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) denied yesterday that its South Central St Catherine MP, Sharon Hay-Webster, was planning to resign her seat because of her alleged dual citizenship status, but promised to seek an ‘updated legal opinion on the matter’.
A radio report yesterday said the MP was considering ending her political career, instead of [...]

The farm bill provides far more money for hungry people than it does for farmers. Nearly 80 percent of the cost of the farm bill is for food programs, including $10.2 billion for domestic food assistance programs and $7.8 billion for food stamps. There’s also $1 billion for a program to provide healthy snacks of [...]

delivered a speech entitled “The Government by the Governed” where I said that our government was being run not by the public officials themselves but by the people they were governing. I said it was we ourselves, the sovereign people as the Constitution described us, who were the real rulers of our country through the [...]

The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.
California voters will almost certainly hold a referendum on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in November, and for the first time anywhere in the U.S., the vote will have a direct and immediate effect on gay couples waiting to tie the [...]

The Ascension Parish Council’s Utilities Committee voted 3-1 Tuesday to recommend not paying consulting firm URS Corp. $54,100 for inspection work on the Hillaryville wastewater project.
The decision marks the second time in as many months that the committee voted not to pay URS Corp. for the services. The full council voted earlier this month not [...]

The exit pay of Suffolk’s former chief deputy county executive, Paul Sabatino, will be cut by $37,540 because the county attorney has found that a waiver that allowed him to carry over vacation time was not properly authorized.
Comptroller Joseph Sawicki, who withheld the exit pay in February to seek a legal opinion, said Sabatino’s payments [...]

Even in today’s fiber-optically connected, digital world, there’s nothing like being there to get the lay of the land.
That’s why Business Review staff have traveled from Beijing to Chicago, and from Mackinac Island to Orlando just in the last year to talk with business leaders and bring back information our readers can’t get anywhere else.
From [...]