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Continue reading →: Remulla vs. Sandiganbayan: The Bail-Out That’s Got Manila’s Legal Elites Sweating Like a Convicted Kleptocrat on AppealA Radio Rant Becomes a Constitutional Crisis By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 1, 2026 IF there is one thing we must grudgingly admire about Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla, it is his unerring instinct for the jugular. He does not dance around an issue with the delicate steps…
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Continue reading →: Tinio vs. The Pork Barrel Industrial Complex: A Warning Shot or Just Political Theater?”The Man Who Cried ‘Insertion!’—Why Tinio’s Alarm Bells Sound Suspiciously Like a Broken Record By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 1, 2026 HAY NAKU, the Philippine national budget. That annual, multi-trillion-peso exercise in national aspiration, legislative sleight-of-hand, and the perennial question of whether the Department of Public Works and…
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Continue reading →: Dunkin’ Donuts: Secretary Dizon’s Recipe for Disaster (and Due Process Violations)”The Sweet Taste of Scapegoating: Why Blaming Petty Thieves Won’t Fix the DPWH’s Rotten Dough By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — September 1, 2026 ALRIGHT, fellow denizens of the bureaucratic swamp, Barok here. Pull up a chair because the circus has come to town, and its ringmaster is none other…
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Continue reading →: How to Prosecute Your Own Cousin Without Touching the Real Corruption: A Marcos Family TutorialA Step-by-Step Guide to Selective Justice, Political Survival, and Keeping the ₱57.5 Billion Pork Barrel Flowing By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — August 31, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, there is a particular kind of farce that unfolds when the powerful suddenly discover that the machinery of accountability—normally oiled for the benefit…
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Continue reading →: Act of God or Act of Gross Negligence? The Agana Bridge Cover-Up Begins”The Typhoon Didn’t Kill Them—Bureaucratic Indifference Did By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 31, 2026 THE Tarlac River, swollen by a predictable monsoon, has become a mass grave. Four souls—Shanen Tuhao, Paul Harvey Collado, and the Taborlupa couple—were swallowed by the current on the night of August 29, 2026.…
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Continue reading →: Dizon’s DPWH Reform: No Plan, No Budget, No Due Process?Inside Dizon’s Legal Fiction: Why “Automatic Accountability” Is Neither Automatic Nor Legal By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 31, 2026 FEAST your eyes on the Department of Public Works and Highways, the hallowed institution where “100% complete” is a state of mind rather than a physical reality. Where cement…
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Continue reading →: Abante’s Alchemy: How to Lose an Election by 1,388 Votes and Still End Up in CongressThe COMELEC Philosopher’s Stone: Turning Stray Votes into a Congressional Majority By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | August 30, 2026 THERE is a particular species of political survival in this archipelago that does not rely on votes, charisma, or even the law as it is written. It relies on something…
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Continue reading →: PNP’s Game of Thrones: The Midnight Reshuffle That Smells Like a Silent PurgeA Signature, A Scapegoat, and the Art of Bureaucratic Deniability By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 30, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round the fire. The air in Camp Crame is thick with the scent of cheap cologne and burning paper. While you were all sleeping off your Friday night…
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Continue reading →: THE TAGUIG LAND GRAB: How to Steal a LakeGhost Projects, Recycled Photos, and the 33% Kickback That Made It All Possible By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 30, 2026 LET me be perfectly clear about what we are witnessing here. This is not a scandal. A scandal implies something unusual. Something aberrant. What Senator Panfilo Lacson has…
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Continue reading →: The Weight of the Gavel: A Life in Service of the Public TrustBy Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 29, 2026 I HAVE stood before the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines more times than I can count without reference to records. Each time, the marble halls felt the same—cold, imposing, indifferent to the man standing before them. But what…
