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Continue reading →: Disbarment or Political Hit Job? The Rondain & Mendiola Four Deserve Their Day Before the Supreme Court, Not the Court of Public OpinionMeet Rondain, Mendiola, Criaga, and Apostol: Four Lawyers Whose Only Crime So Far Is Being on the Wrong Side of a Political War By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | September 12, 2026 LET’S get one thing straight before the pearl-clutching begins: I don’t know if Jing Paras did it. Neither…
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Continue reading →: Siargao’s Missing Road: How the Matugases Built a Dynasty on Paper-Completion65% Complete, 100% Paid, 0% Surprised: The Matugas-Boometrix Blueprint for Getting Rich on Roads Nobody Can Drive On By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 12, 2026 Well, well, well. If it isn’t the Philippine government’s favorite new spectator sport: watching a political dynasty explain why a ₱457-million loan to…
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Continue reading →: ₱8.9 Billion, 331 Ghost Police Stations: The TIKAS Scandal ExplainedThe PNP Asked. DPWH Built. COA Found Nothing. Everyone Shrugs. By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — September 12, 2026 Let me get this straight. The Philippine National Police (PNP)—an organization whose job is law enforcement—needs police stations. Makes sense. Cops need roofs. Even in a country where the roof itself…
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Continue reading →: President in Reserve, Immunity in Fantasy: Sara Duterte’s TRO Hail Mary Hits Constitutional RealityOne heartbeat from the presidency. Zero grounds for immunity By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — September 11, 2026 LET me get this straight. The Vice President of the Philippines—a woman who allegedly looked into a camera and said she had arranged for someone to kill the President, the First Lady,…
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Continue reading →: Fly Me to Singapore: The Cayetanos’ Guide to Leaving Before Charges ArriveThey Didn’t Flee. They Just Left at the Exact Moment Everything Was About to Explode By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo | September 11, 2026 The Art of Leaving Without Actually Leaving (Legally Speaking) Let me get this straight: on September 9, 2026, Senators Alan Peter and Pia Cayetano boarded a…
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Continue reading →: 6 Months, No Pay: Ombudsman Cans CPA Chief in Port Favoritism ProbeRegulatory Capture in Real Time: The CPA’s Own Rules, Ignored By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 11, 2026 LET me tell you something about port regulation in the Philippines. It’s where the money is. It’s where the power is. And apparently, it’s where the rules go to die. The…
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Continue reading →: Erice’s Billion-Peso Hallucination vs. Remulla’s Paper TrailThe Audit Trail is Real. The Allegation is a Mirage. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 9, 2026 THERE is a certain brilliance to the Pinoy Media Network (PMN) social media post that has set Philippine political discourse ablaze. It is not the brilliance of journalistic integrity, mind you,…
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Continue reading →: Sara Duterte’s Bank Records: Diokno’s Legal Trap That Could End Her 2028 DreamsAdmission, Denial, or Silence—Why Every Option Leads to Political Annihilation By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 10, 2026 IN THE circus maximus that is the Philippine Senate impeachment court—where senators play judge, jury, and aspiring presidential candidates simultaneously—Rep. Chel Diokno just pulled a procedural rabbit out of his hat…
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Continue reading →: Erwin Tulfo’s Constitutional Magic Trick: Now You See 24 Senators, Now You Don’tPresto, Chango, 16 Becomes 14: The Senate’s Greatest Illusion Yet By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — September 9, 2026 The Philippine Senate—a chamber that once debated whether ‘all’ means ‘all’ with the intellectual rigor of a drunk philosophy major—has outdone itself. Senator Erwin Tulfo, a man whose legal acumen is…
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Continue reading →: Lacson’s ‘Silence the Critics’ Gambit: How Arresting One Cousin Doesn’t Un-Steal ₱545 BillionA Field Guide to Elite Sacrifice: Why Romualdez is the Pawn, Not the Kingpin By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — September 9, 2026 AND now, a word from Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson—the man who has never met a microphone he didn’t want to lecture. The man who built a career…
