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Continue reading →: PhilHealth Heist 2.0: Youth Used as Human Shields for Sin Tax SwindleSoft Earmarks, Hard Theft: Why Sin Taxes Mean More Pork for Congress By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — July 20, 2026 LET us speak plainly, because the children cannot afford our euphemisms. Last Thursday, a coalition of sincere, doe-eyed youth advocates stood before the cameras and begged President Marcos to…
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Continue reading →: Heydarian, Cendaña, Gadon Walk Free: SC’s Selective Magnanimity Exposed87-page self-preservation wrapped in free speech robes — the Court protects itself best. By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | July 19, 2026 IN A display of institutional self-regard so exquisite it deserves its own exhibit at the National Museum, the Supreme Court has deigned not to punish three people who…
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Continue reading →: Victim Martyr or Teflon VP? Sara’s Poll Shield vs. Impeachment Hammer+31 Satisfaction Rating Exposes the Great Uncoupling of Popularity and Justice By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — July 17, 2026 IN A just republic, a public official facing a ₱375-million disallowance for misused confidential funds, an impeachment trial for betrayal of public trust, and the looming specter of her father’s…
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Continue reading →: ₱10B Ghost in New Clark City: Matibag’s Haunted Séance for CayetanoWeaponized Justice or Genuine Probe? The Séance Exposing Everyone’s Dirty Hands By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 17, 2026 THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has summoned a ghost. Not the rattling-chains kind that haunts abandoned buildings, but the far more dangerous specter that haunts Philippine governance: a half-decade-old,…
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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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