Juan Luna’s “Parisian Life” is once again in the limelight. According to Ricky Ramos, GSIS Museum PR office, this beautiful painting is now offered for sale along with two Amorsolo paintings. The painting is not too well known in 1892 but it was wrought with controversy when GSIS bought it at Christie’s auction in Hongkong [...]
Archive | August 7, 2011

















The power to destroy
by Benjamin Cardinez On March 6, 1819, the Supreme Court of the United States speaking through Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch vs. Maryland, immortalized this quote: “The power to tax is the power to destroy”. This judicial observation was in connection with it’s holding that the State of Maryland may not impose a tax on [...]