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Continue reading →: Subpoena Circus: How the Impeachment Court Perfected the Art of Political LawAdmission Is Free, But the Republic’s Faith in Impartial Justice Will Cost You Everything By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — July 22, 2026 LET us be clear about what this ruling is not. It is not a conviction. It is not a finding of guilt. It is not even a…
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Continue reading →: Marcos Paves Over Plunder With Robredo’s Sidewalk—And You’re Supposed to ClapA SARO for Naga, a Subpoena for Sara, and a Nation Asked Not to Notice the Timing By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 21, 2026 The Swamp and the Sidewalk Welcome to the Republic of the Philippines, July 2026. In one corner of the news cycle, the Senate is…
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Continue reading →: The Ayuda Industrial Complex: Garcia Warns Barangays While Congress Runs the GameHow Congress Mastered the Art of Institutional Vote Buying — While Garcia Sounds the Alarm to the Grassroots By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 20, 2026 The Man Who Would Police Purity Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman George Erwin Garcia—formerly Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s election lawyer, representative of Grace Poe,…
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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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