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Continue reading →: Constitutional Comedy Hour: Dynasties Dancing Around Article II for 38 Years of Uninterrupted ShenanigansFamily Feudalism Follies: 38 Years of Dodging the Dynasty Ban with Dazzling Deception Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 25, 2025 I. Another Senate Bill, Another Funeral March: Risa’s SB 1548 Joins the Corpse Parade Thirty-eight years.That is how long Article II, Section 26 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution has…
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Continue reading →: “Bend the Law”? Cute. Marcoleta Just Bent the Constitution into a PretzelWhen Grandstanding Met the Power of the Purse and the Constitution Wept By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 24, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, grab your popcorn and your Constitutions. Tonight we watch a neophyte senator turn a ₱6.5-billion budget hearing into his personal episode…
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Continue reading →: Remulla, Romualdez, and the Call That EchoesRecusal: The Only Way to Silence the Echo By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 23, 2025 THERE are days when Philippine politics hands us a moment so delicate that even the usual fire-and-brimstone feels out of place. Last Thursday was one of those days. In a public law forum,…
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Continue reading →: Dong Gonzales and the ₱611 Million Family Heist: When “Cleared” Means “Not Caught… Yet”How Daddy’s Pork Barrel Became the Kids’ College Fund (and Mansion Fund, and Yacht Fund) By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 23, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, ladies and gentlemen of this miserable republic, gather ’round the cave fire because the stench coming out of Pampanga’s 3rd District is making even…
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Continue reading →: The Cousin SacrificeWalang Kamag-anak, Walang Kaibigan — Except When Ratings Are Sinking By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 22, 2025 Or how President Marcos Jr. threw his first cousin under the flood-control bus to save his own sinking approval ratings Mga ka-kweba, grab your coffee and your blood-pressure meds.Tonight we just…
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Continue reading →: “HINDI AKO NAG-RESIGN!”The Executive Secretary Screams from the Grave of His Own Political Funeral By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 22, 2025 1. The Resignation That Wasn’t: A Love Story in Two Contrasting Scripts Malacañang: “He stepped down out of delicadeza. So noble. So graceful. So very voluntary.”Lucas Bersamin, live on…
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Continue reading →: P135 M from a Dead General? Cute. Now Forfeiture the Billions That Turn Metro Manila into Venice Every July.”The Supreme Court just proved death is no escape. Flood-control thieves, your fake dikes won’t save you either. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 22, 2025 The General Who Died Rich and the Heirs Who Thought Death Was a Receipt Let’s do the math first, because apparently the Ligot…
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Continue reading →: PDIC’s P107 Billion ‘Idle Funds’? Your Life Savings Just Got Demoted to Government Petty CashBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 21, 2025 3:00 a.m.The country is asleep. Vault label:“In Case Banks Fail, Save Depositors” Thieves:DOF + PDIC(in government barong, not balaclavas; way scarier) Loot:YOUR P107.23 billion Official excuse:“It was idle.” Translation:Your fire extinguisher was idle,so we sold it to fund another overpriced bridge…
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Continue reading →: Sonny Angara Invents New Legal Defense: ‘Walang Resibo, Walang Kasalanan’ — Coming Soon sa DepEd CurriculumNow Being Taught in Every DepEd Classroom By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo –November 21, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, boys and girls, future taxpayers of this benighted republic:Gather round while Education Secretary Sonny Angara gives us all a masterclass in Evidence Law 101. His syllabus in one sentence:“If there’s no GoPro footage…
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Continue reading →: “We Will Take Care of It”: Bersamin’s P52-Billion Love Letter to CorruptionFrom the Supreme Court bench to the kickback throne: a love story written in cash By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 20, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, while Metro Manila drowns and thousands of families float in their own homes, some pinoys are busy floating money—not water, but cold, hard cash.…






