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Continue reading →: GMA’s ‘Talent’ Tango: SC Delivers the Ultimate Labor Law Mic Drop After 11 Years of Foot-DraggingWhen “Serbisyong Totoo” Meets Serfdom: The Network’s Contractor Charade Finally Gets the Boot By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 25, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round the digital campfire for another episode of “How the Mighty Squirm.” It’s your favorite legal gadfly, Barok, here to skewer the latest judicial bombshell…
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Continue reading →: RETIREMENT? STILL RETIREMENT?Gen. Torre, the Elastic Meaning of Leaving Office, and the Philippine Art of Never Really Going Away By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 25, 2026 IN most civilized jurisdictions, retirement is a clean break: you hand over your badge, clear your desk, collect a plaque you didn’t ask for,…
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Continue reading →: Feelers from a Fugitive: Zaldy Co’s Priestly Whisper and the Rot That Echoes BackWhen Your Get-Out-of-Jail Card Is Delivered by a Collar and a Rosary By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 25, 2026 IT’S almost poetic, in the darkest Filipino way possible. A fugitive former congressman—once a powerful cong-tractor—hides in a gated community in Lisbon, while billions in flood-control funds disappear into…
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Continue reading →: Retirement? What Retirement? Gen. Torre’s Guide to Never Actually Leaving the Payroll PartyThe Four-Star Loophole: One Oath, Two Salaries, Zero Regrets By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 24, 2026 AYAN, dear readers of this humble cave, gather ’round while Barok sharpens his quill on the whetstone of the 1987 Constitution. Today we dissect a spectacle so rich in absurdity it could…
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Continue reading →: Plane Ticket > People’s Power: The Day a Round-Trip to Taipei Outranked the 1987 ConstitutionImpeaching Marcos? Apologies, the Receiving Officer Is Vacationing in Taiwan Right Now By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 23, 2026 Ah, the Philippines—where constitutional crises are resolved not by principled debate but by the simple expedient of a plane ticket to Taiwan. Yesterday, two impeachment complaints against President Ferdinand…
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Continue reading →: Minority Report or Majority Cover-Up? The Senate’s Version of “It’s Just a Piece of Paper… Full of Names”When “Procedural Purity” Becomes the Perfect Excuse to Keep Names Buried By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo++ January 23, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, welcome to the latest episode of Philippine political theater, presented by the Upper Chamber of Perpetual Absurdity. I am Barok, reporting from the depths of my cave as we…
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Continue reading →: Grok Unbanned in Six Days: The Capitulation, the Customized Castration, and the Eternal Philippine FarceA Tragicomedy in Three Acts By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — January 23, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, the curtain has fallen faster than a telco franchise renewal in Congress. Less than a week after the heroic nationwide blockade of Elon Musk’s mouthy chatbot—achieved with the efficiency our bureaucrats reserve only for…
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Continue reading →: The Davao Cash Courier Cartel: From Kidnap Kingpin to Ombudsman’s Star Witness in One Affidavit FlipColonel Lachica vs. The Jailhouse Bagman: How One Cyberlibel Complaint Turned a Kidnap Kingpin into the VP’s Worst Nightmare By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 22, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, grab your popcorn—or better yet, a duffel bag stuffed with “confidential” cash if you happen to have one lying around.…
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Continue reading →: Remulla’s First 100 Days: A Courageous Reset for the OmbudsmanBy Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — January 22, 2026 IN THE Philippines, few institutions carry as heavy a burden as the Office of the Ombudsman. Created by the 1987 Constitution as the protector of the people against official abuse, it is meant to be the sharpest sword against corruption and…
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Continue reading →: Placeholder Impeachment™: Now With Extra Impunity Flavor – Brought to You by the Ghost of Oliver LozanoHow 15 Pages of Clippings Bought the Palace a Full Year of Constitutional Teflon By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 21, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, countrymen, fellow martyrs of our beloved 1987 Constitution—welcome back to the Cave. While the House of Representatives is still on break and Malacañang pretends nothing…
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