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Continue reading →: Questions Carpio-Morales Suspiciously Avoids AnsweringBy Hail to the Chair — November 3, 2025 IN November 2016, then Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales rendered a decision in an administrative case against evangelist and traditional politician Joel Villanueva, who was elected to his first term in the Senate earlier in May 2016. The decision found Villanueva guilty of…
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Continue reading →: Morales’ Iron Gavel vs. Martires’ Midnight Eraser: The P9.7M Heist That Almost Got AwayEffective Control vs. Effective Cover-Up: A Study in Legal Sleight of Hand By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 2, 2025 IN THE hallowed halls of the Office of the Ombudsman, where sunlight is supposed to be the best disinfectant, a secret was buried for six long years. A secret…
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Continue reading →: The Flimsy Excuses of Samuel MartiresBy Hail to the Chair — November 2, 2025 THE public has the inherent right to criticize the quality of the work of all public officers, former Ombudsman Samuel Martires included. Nobody forced them to seek public office, and their salaries and allowances are paid from taxpayers’ money. From that…
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Continue reading →: From Jailbird to Bank-Breaker: De Lima’s Revenge on PrivacyHB 5701: Where Due Process Goes to Die… Quietly By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 1, 2025 From Political Prisoner to Privacy Assassin? Leila de Lima—jailed for five years on charges many call a Duterte-era frame-up—is back in Congress as Mamamayang Liberal Party-list Representative. Her weapon? House Bill No.…
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Continue reading →: 50% Poor, 100% Betrayed: The Flood of Corruption Drowning HopeSWS Says 14.2 Million Poor—Corruption Says “Hold My Mansion” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 31, 2025 FIFTY percent. Let that sink in—not as a sterile decimal point in some technocrat’s spreadsheet, but as a primal scream from 14.2 million Filipino families who, in the Social Weather Stations’ September…
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Continue reading →: EDCA for Everyone, Tariffs for the Sucker: How the U.S. Rewarded Its Most Loyal LapdogUncle Sam’s Good Boy Gets a Tariff Bone While Neighbors Feast on Boeing Bucks By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 30, 2025 GOOD boy, Philippines—sit, stay, roll over. You gave the U.S. bases, blood, and blind loyalty for 70 years. Reward? A 19% tariff bone tossed at your feet.…
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Continue reading →: The Ombudsman’s Parting Gift: 204 Reasons to Doubt the Rule of LawThe Art of Leaving Quietly — and Taking the Furniture With You By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 30, 2025 1. The Grand Exit: How to Burnish Your Legacy by Burying It Under Paperwork When ordinary civil servants retire, they take home a clock and a cake.When former Ombudsman…
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Continue reading →: Extradition 2025: The Supreme Court’s ‘Do Not Disturb’ Sign for the ICC, ‘Open Season’ for Cult LeadersFor Go & Dela Rosa: The Court Built a Moat. For Quiboloy: The Court Built a Catapult — Straight to America By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 30, 2025 1. The “Perfectly Timed” Panic Button: Coincidence or ICC-Proof Bunker? MGA ka-kweba ng legal coliseum, gather ’round. The Supreme Court has…
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Continue reading →: The Typhon Gambit: Arming for Survival or Igniting Ruin?Brawner’s Stand, Duterte’s Warning: The Fight for Philippine Sovereignty By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo+- October 29, 2025 THE Philippines teeters on a razor’s edge, caught in a storm of great power rivalry. A single question looms over the West Philippine Sea: Is the nation fortifying its defenses to secure its…
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Continue reading →: When Power Meets Mortality: The Meaning of Remulla’s RevelationHis battle with illness is more than a personal story — it’s a test of whether vulnerability can give birth to moral strength in Philippine public life. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 28, 2015 WHEN Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla revealed that he had battled leukemia following a quintuple…
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