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Continue reading →: The OSG’s ‘Guardrails’ Gambit: A Motion for Reconsideration or a License to Ignore the Court?Pork on Life Support: Inside the Legal Maneuver to Keep Unconstitutional Spending Alive By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 23, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, the plot thickens, and the smell of desperation is wafting through the halls of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG). Just days after the Supreme…
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Continue reading →: Dizon’s Detention Basins: Flood Control or the Next DPWH Scam?Vince Dizon wants developers to build stormwater basins nationwide. He announced it from a Megaworld project, without published standards, legal basis, or anti-corruption safeguards—what could possibly go wrong? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 23, 2026 VINCE DIZON is many things—reformist, workaholic, camera-ready—but stupid is not one of them.…
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Continue reading →: Fore! The Military’s Golf Courses Are Robbing You BlindLacson Wants Answers. Teodoro Wants Understanding. Taxpayers Want Their Money Back. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 22, 2026 LET’S start with the number that should make every Filipino taxpayer choke on their morning pandesal: ₱400 million. That is not the cost of a new frigate. It is not…
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Continue reading →: 23,000 Schools, No Principals, One Big Fat Zero: Inside the 2027 Education Budget DisasterHow DepEd Asked for ₱10.5 Billion, Got a Reclassification Memo, and Called It a Staffing Plan By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 20, 2026 SOMEBODY please explain this to me like I’m a congressman, because here’s the situation: the Philippines has 45,928 public schools. Roughly 23,000 of them—that’s half,…
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Continue reading →: Malacañang Files Motion for Reconsideration: ‘We Followed the Unconstitutional Law, Your Honor’Inside the OSG’s Motion: 30 Pages of ‘We Didn’t Know,’ 5 Pages of ‘It Was Congress,’ and One Footnote Asking for Forgiveness By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 22, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, sharpen your pencils and prepare your finest grains of salt. The Palace has finally responded to the…
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Continue reading →: Multisys, PLDT, and the DICT: A Love Triangle With a Body Count of 1.55 Billion PesosWhen your ex-company’s majority shareholder wins the contracts your office awards, that’s not a coincidence. That’s a business model. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 22, 2026 LET me get this absolutely, catastrophically straight, because the comedy here is too rich to ignore. Two months ago, I told you…
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Continue reading →: Cloud Seeding, Indian Seeds, and ₱62 Billion: The El Niño Plan That Does Everything Except Work223,214 Farmers, ₱61.99 Billion, and One Question Nobody in Malacañang Wants to Answer: Where Exactly Is the Money Going? By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — October 21, 2026 The Art of the Fiscal Hallucination Come closer, mga anak. This is the kind of story you hear at a wake—except the…
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Continue reading →: Kickbacks Are ‘General Knowledge’—But the NBI Still Can’t Find Estrada’s CutSamson Testified to Everything Except the One Thing That Matters: Where the Money Went By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | October 21, 2026 THE Philippine anti-corruption establishment has a new legal theory, and it is breathtaking in its audacity. It goes something like this: Everyone knows kickbacks are standard. Therefore,…
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Continue reading →: Supreme Court to Congress: That’s Not a Contingency Fund, That’s PorkThe High Court Just Declared Your ‘Unprogrammed Appropriations’ a Slush Fund With a Legal Disclaimer By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 21, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round. Bring your calculators, your reading glasses, and a strong stomach—because the Supreme Court just dropped a 121-page judicial bomb on the Philippine…
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Continue reading →: ₱63 to the Dollar: The Only Thing Falling Faster Than the Peso Is the Government’s CredibilityA Record Low, a Corruption Scandal, and a Central Bank Governor Who Called It ‘Okay By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | October 21, 2026 SOMETHING curious happened on October 15, 2026. The Philippine peso slid to ₱63.06 against the dollar—a record low—and the guardians of our economic destiny responded with…
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