Silence means capitulation
What the speech did not do, in any sustained way, was treat crime and drugs as a critical problem requiring a national answer.
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Up, up and under
Madam. We’re not blocking the President’s dream. Gravity is. We asked a simple question. Why this rocket?
Manufactured hero
He has used the authority sparingly, and mostly on items that were already indefensible, not on every project that bled the GAA dry.
BNPP haunts PBBM’s nuke pitch
If the administration is serious about affordability now, solar, storage, and grid modernization deserve the urgency nuclear power is being…
Enough broken vows
’Marcos does not have much time, especially if the administration’s impeachment agenda collides with the need to prosecute senators who are…
Names unspoken
A SoNA delivered with two years remaining of a six-year term should be judged not only on how well emergencies were handled, but on how…
Unsound nation
Self-rated low-income families have climbed from 48 percent of households in June 2022, the month Marcos took office, to 52 percent as of a…
State of flux
Every generation must have been disappointed by the leaders they believed would bring about change, only to find out that they turned out…
Hyping a mirage
Poverty has been growing under the Marcos Jr. administration. Self-rated low-income families increased from 12.2 million, or 48 percent of…
Phl sports gets an assist
Under the Marcos administration, Philippine sports has received a perfect assist. Sports has evolved from a passion project into a…
Credibility deficit
Every unmet commitment chips away at public trust far more effectively than any opposition attack could, and the administration has found…
Absent without shame
And where is she? Not in the courtroom. Not answering the charges herself. She left for Europe, ostensibly to visit her father, who is…
Revolting political circus
Prices are up because of the global crisis, and ordinary people are feeling it regardless of what’s happening in the Senate.
Deflating a spare tire
Sara Duterte’s real offense, in the eyes of many of her supporters, is not that she governs badly. She barely governs at all.
‘Walang hiya, walang kulong‘
The perversion of Congress was at its worst after the Marcos administration took over, where pork projects became a commodity.
Should Senate be lawyers-only?
The trial is showing us how loudly a man can bang the gavel that is no longer in his hand. Every road somehow leads back to the Cayetanos…
Somethin’s cookin’
Recto was a member of the Bicameral Conference Committee during the drafting and reconciliation of the 2024 national budget.
Piercing that money veil
The defense must explicitly explain the lawful sources of the excess funds, or those assets are presumed ill-gotten.