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Continue reading →: The Autopsy of a Political Assassination: How a Conspiracy Brought Down Ted HerbosaWhile Real Plunderers Walk Free, San Fernando Shames a Man on the Operating Table By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 16, 2026 THERE is a particular cruelty in kicking a man while he’s on the operating table. Yet that, with surgical precision, is exactly what Kamanggagawa party-list Rep. Elijah…
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Continue reading →: Zero Hunger or Zero Shame? The Expanded Walang Gutom Program Is Just Flood-Control Corruption Wearing a Compassion MaskSame Pork, Different Packaging. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 16, 2026 THIS is not a social program. Let’s be clear about that from the first sentence, because clarity is the first casualty in the Marcos administration’s latest grand anti-poverty theater. What we are witnessing with the breathless rollout…
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Continue reading →: ‘Abuse Does Not Make the Power Unconstitutional”: The OSG’s Guide to Defending Anything Short of MurderA Legal Doctrine So Elastic It Could Stretch Around the National Budget and Snap Back Without a Scratch By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 16, 2026 THE Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has finally answered the Supreme Court’s most basic, most devastating question: Where are the records for…
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Continue reading →: Marcos’ -7 ‘Comeback’: Same Fever, Two Degrees Cooler43% still say he serves the rich, the youth vote has crashed to -27, and Mindanao hasn’t budged from ‘hostile.’ This is what a ‘neutral’ rating actually hides. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 15, 2026 Cue the Champagne? Not So Fast So, let’s all pop the champagne, Metro…
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Continue reading →: Zero Backlog or Zero Honesty? DHSUD’s Self-Certified Fairy TaleInternal Audit Says We’re Perfect. Signed, The People We Audited. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 14, 2026 FOUR consecutive weeks of zero overdue regulatory applications. The phrase has the sterile, triumphant ring of a hospital administrator announcing zero surgical errors—only to have you later discover the surgeons reclassified…
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Continue reading →: Pangandaman’s GOCC Reward: Corruption’s Revolving Door Spins AgainFrom ₱100B Flood Scandal Resignation to Islamic Bank Throne — Delicadeza Never Looked So Fake By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 14, 2026 Let us cut straight to the bone about what happened on July 10, 2026. Amenah F. Pangandaman—who resigned as Budget Secretary eight months earlier because her…
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Continue reading →: Ombudsman Remulla vs. Sacred Cow Contractors: The Plunder Purge Begins67 cong-tractors turned districts into personal ATM machines—until Remulla said “Choose business or politics.” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 14, 2026 LET us state the obvious, because in the theater of Philippine politics, the obvious is the first casualty: when a sitting congressman owns a construction company that…
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Continue reading →: Intent Doesn’t Matter? Drilon’s Hilarious Impeachment Loophole for SaraNo mind-reading needed, says Drilon — just convict on the words alone. Due process? Optional. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 13, 2026 FORMER Senate President Franklin Drilon, that perennial statesman who has never met a camera he didn’t like, has descended from Olympus to bestow upon us mere…
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Continue reading →: Vida’s Victim-Inversion Special: 7/10 “Reform” That Protects the PowerfulPR Spin Meets Numbers Game: How Vida Turned DOJ Gatekeeping Into a SONA Bauble By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 12, 2026 CUE the sweet, rehearsed poetry of a State of the Nation Address (SONA)-season soundbite. There was Secretary Fredderick Vida, leaning into the DZRH microphone on July 11,…
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Continue reading →: Azcuna’s Chessboard Justice: Criminal Intent Proven Before Trial Even Starts?Grave threats proven before the defense even speaks — welcome to Azcuna’s impeachment. By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — July 11, 2026 SOME retired justices spend their golden years writing memoirs, tending gardens, or quietly fading into the jurisprudential wallpaper. Not Adolfo Azcuna. The constitutional framer, former Supreme Court Associate…
