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Continue reading →: The SMART KIDS Act: Because Nothing Protects Children Like a Law That Violates the ConstitutionSenate Bill No. 2424, or How the Philippine Senate Decided That the Best Way to Protect Kids Online Was to Do the One Thing the Supreme Court Has Repeatedly Said You Cannot Do By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 10, 2026 THE Philippine Senate has done it again. In…
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Continue reading →: The 5.3 Percent Illusion: How Manila Celebrated a Jobs Crisis While the Factory Gates ClosedWhen 310,000 Jobs Disappear but the Press Release Says “Recovery By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 10, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, countrymen, and fellow prisoners of the Philippine statistical imagination—welcome back to the Cave. Let us begin with a confession. When I first saw the headline “Unemployment Falls to 5.3%,”…
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Continue reading →: The Queen of Postponements: Sara Duterte’s Arraignment and the Fine Art of Buying TimeSorority Sisters, Pending TROs, and a Judge Who Just Needs More Time to “Study All These Things” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 10, 2026 SPOILER alert: Sara Duterte is not the first politician to discover that procedural rules are a wonderful thing. The Vice President was supposed to…
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Continue reading →: 10,000 Solar Pumps, Zero Water: The Marcos Irrigation ScamFour pumps a day, zero audits a year: Inside NIA’s procurement speedrun By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 10, 2026 THE Marcos administration wants you to believe that 10,000 solar-powered irrigation sites by 2030 will solve Philippine agriculture’s problems. They’ve deployed Acting Executive Secretary Ralph Recto to sell this…
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Continue reading →: The Villar Crossover: A Masterclass in How to Make a Trillion Pesos Disappear (And Still Get a Committee Chairmanship)Seventy-Two Minutes, Three Corporate Disclosures, and One Conveniently Timed Senate Defection: The Villar Family’s Playbook for Surviving Scrutiny By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 10, 2026 CALL me old-fashioned, but I was raised to believe that if you’re going to sell your soul, you should at least have the…
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Continue reading →: Pork, by Any Other Name: A Legal Autopsy of Suansing’s “No Pork” DefenseHow a ₱405-Million Supreme Court Case Became the Alibi for a ₱58.53-Billion Fund By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 WELCOME back to the cave, where we do the dirty work of reading Supreme Court decisions so you don’t have to—and where we occasionally find that the people…
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Continue reading →: Ober Da Bakod: Mark Villar Swaps Conscience Vote for Public Works Candy StoreThe House Always Wins: A Villar Gets the Public Works Keys, a Sister Stays in the Minority, and the Family Keeps Both Doors Open By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 The Most Honest Man in the Senate Let me tell you a story about the most honest…
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Continue reading →: The -11 Presidency: How a Survey Exposed the Rot Beneath the Malacañang MarbleSara Has +31. Marcos Has -11. Do the Math. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo | October 9, 2026 THE number is -11. Not a temperature. Not a stock ticker. A political death rattle disguised as statistical noise. When Social Weather Stations (SWS) released its third-quarter survey last week, the headline…
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Continue reading →: From Import Ban to Import Flood: How the DA Created the Rice Crisis It Now Claims to SolveBecause Nothing Says ‘Food Security’ Like Banning Imports One Year and Flooding the Market the Next Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 GATHER ’round, mga ka-kweba, for today’s episode of ‘Policy Whiplash’: the Department of Agriculture (DA) spent the better part of 2025 telling Filipino farmers that imports…
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Continue reading →: The Barbers Gambit: How “Two and Two” Became a Constitutional Magic TrickManchurian Candidates and Manufactured Drama: How the Prosecution Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Conspiracy Theory By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, welcome back to the Cave. Today we’re going to talk about a phrase that has become the prosecution’s favorite rhetorical crutch in…
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