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Continue reading →: Boying Remulla vs. Red Tape: Will the Crooks Finally Pay the Price?Crooked Mayors on Notice: Remulla Opens the Window, and the Fixers Start Sweating By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | October 26, 2026 THERE is something deliciously inconvenient about an Ombudsman who tells government officials that their desks are not private tollbooths, their signatures are not merchandise, and their offices are…
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Continue reading →: The Ghost Ponente: How One Facebook Post Erased Marvic LeonenLeonen Wrote It, Lazaro-Javier Got the Fan Mail: Anatomy of a Judicial Ghost Story By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 26, 2026 ALLOW me to describe a miracle of modern alchemy. A Facebook post managed to do something the entire Philippine Supreme Court could not: it turned Associate Justice…
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Continue reading →: The 45.2% Solution: How DepEd Built a Classroom Formula That Only Works for Rich Towns91% of rich towns got classrooms. 55% of poor towns got scraps. 30 got nothing. That’s not data. That’s a filter. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 26, 2026 CALL me old-fashioned, but I thought ‘needs-based’ meant based on needs. The Department of Education (DepEd) looked at the municipalities…
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Continue reading →: The Tangere Poll Is Not a Survey—It’s a Duterte Campaign Ad With a Margin of ErrorHow a self-selected panel of 2,400 app users became the ‘proof’ that Baste is surging—and why Pulse Asia and OCTA tell a different story By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | October 25, 2026 FORGIVE me for skipping the throat-clearing: the Tangere survey released this week is not a It is…
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Continue reading →: The P50-Million Question: Malacañang Has a Bounty, a Deadline, and Absolutely No Idea What It’s DoingJonvic Remulla Found ₱50 Million in the Intelligence Fund—but Forgot to Bring the Law, the Evidence, and the Paperwork By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 25, 2026 SOMEWHERE, a legal scholar is weeping into a Constitution. The Philippine government has announced a ₱50-million bounty for the capture of a…
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Continue reading →: Sara’s Lawyers Are Picking a Lock the Supreme Court Already ChangedMeet the legal strategy that confuses “come back when you have a case” with “please try again immediately.” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 25, 2026 I MUST have missed the memo where “premature” became a synonym for “please try again.” Let me catch up. Vice President Sara Duterte’s…
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Continue reading →: The Vince Dizon Show: All Turo-Turo, No RoadmapOr: How to Reform a 70,000-Person Agency with a Laser Pointer and Good Intentions By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 26, 2026 Ladies and gentlemen, gather around. The circus is in town, and the ringmaster has a confession to make: he doesn’t actually have a plan. That’s the headline…
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Continue reading →: Boying Remulla’s “Evidence-Based” Probe: Following the Money While Everyone Else Follows the ScriptHow the Ombudsman Refused to Pretend the Docket Is a Political Menu By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 24, 2026 IN THE Philippine anti-corruption circus, the usual act is simple: announce a crackdown, jail a few mid-level bureaucrats and contractors who forgot to share, then declare victory while the…
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Continue reading →: No Interview, No Evidence, No Case: The PDEA’s Laos Shabu CircusThe People v. Lim Nightmare: Why the Laos Case Collapses Before It Even Reaches Court By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 24, 2026 FORGIVE me for needing a moment to process this. Appearing before a congressional hearing, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isagani Nerez confidently identified former…
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Continue reading →: The Zofia Canlas Scandal: A Masterclass in Palace Obfuscation, with a Side of Elaine Masukat’s Phantom MenaceThe Masukat Template: How Proximity to the First Lady’s Law Firm Became the Only Resume That Matters By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 24, 2026 LET me be clear about something before we wade into this particular swamp: I do not know Elaine Masukat. I have never met her.…
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