Acquitted, not Exonerated
WHETHER BY DESIGN OR ACCIDENT, THE OPTICS HAVE DAMAGED A SUPPOSEDLY INDEPENDENT INSTITUTION THAT THRIVES ON PUBLIC TRUST
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Pork express rolls out
With the strong inclination to craft a pork barrel-packed proposal, the House’s own budget should have faced the most scrutiny.
His father’s son
Bongbong should be reminded that institutions lose credibility when citizens suspect accountability follows political allegiance.
Ground zero fury
The province is now ground zero of public anger, and this shift, understandable in its origins, carries risks that those in power would be…
Let creativity flourish
Government support comes with a responsibility that goes beyond announcing programs, holding expos and producing development plans. It must…
Senate minority blitz turned up
A graft case under Republic Act 3019 must begin with an unlawful act committed by a public officer — not simply with the owners of a…
National disaster
Can we blame these back-to-back setbacks on our athletes or their lack of height, skills, strength, discipline and ability to overcome the…
Gaming the system
The framers knew that impeachment could become a weapon instead of a safeguard.
Sixteen, or however many are left
This country does not suffer from a shortage of accusations against its officials — for plunder, unexplained wealth, bribery, and worse. It…
‘All members,’ deliberate
Any steps taken toward the American ‘present members’ standard as functionally erasing the difference the 1987 framers went out of their…
Ice cream tax
We’re already taxing ice cream, by the way. You buy it, there’s the VAT. You import it, there are customs duties and import VAT. Ice cream…
Straight from the source
The trial concentrates the roles of accuser, prosecutor and judge in one branch at once, and the Constitution answered with an internal…
Can you jail a senator’s vote?
You removed two no votes and somehow yes became harder? So now maybe conviction should need only 14 yesses instead of 16.
House transparency zarzuela
The danger resurfaces: a budget assembled in a room with the lights off, then presented afterward as though it had always undergone a…
AI won’t kill humans — yet
What we do know is that it already expands who can cause serious harm and how fast, and people in the industry and governments should focus…
One step short
The baton starts with the executive, is passed on to the House — where Romualdez was Speaker — and is then returned to the President.
Inventory is not deterrence
Congress should pass a modernization law with financing that survives annual budget fights, not one that expires alongside them.
‘Pagpag’ mirrors failure
In 2025, the lid was blown off the massive corruption in budget spending, with more than P1 trillion in flood projects alone subjected to…