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Leni Robredo’s lame bid to re-brand her camp to “Working Opposition” insults the intelligence of Filipino voters

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Leni Robredo’s lame bid to re-brand her camp to “Working Opposition” insults the intelligence of Filipino voters

The bigger news yesterday was Sen. Ping Lacson resigning as Vice-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Per the resignation letter he sent to Senate President Tito Sotto, he resigned because he wanted to have more time to scrutinize the proposed 2022 National Budget. Lacson has become the scourge of pork-loving legislators ever since he was…

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Politics

#NinoyIsNOTaHero trends as Commission on Audit (COA) “flagging” campaign mounted by Opposition FAILS

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#NinoyIsNOTaHero trends as Commission on Audit (COA) “flagging” campaign mounted by Opposition FAILS

The hashtag #NinoyIsNOTaHero trended yesterday on the 38th anniversary of his death at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. It is obvious that the Filipino people have had enough of that narrative. They have repudiated the proponents of such in 2016 with the loss of Mar Roxas to Rodrigo Duterte and again in 2019…

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Politics

Ping Lacson declares war on wasteful government spending and corruption

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Ping Lacson declares war on wasteful government spending and corruption

It would appear that the noose is getting tighter around the neck of Health Secretary Francisco Duque over the release of the latest COA report summarizing the glaring deficiencies in its compliance with government accounting standards as defined by the audit agency. GMA News Online reports that Sen. Panfilo Lacson has again called out Duque…

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Government

“Activist” noise surrounding this “measles epidemic” should be taken with a grain of salt

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“Activist” noise surrounding this “measles epidemic” should be taken with a grain of salt

People should get a grip over this recent measles “outbreak”. Partisan camps and social media “influencers” have been polarised between just two camps — (1) the Department of Health (DOH) headed by Sec. Francisco Duque who have been asserting that “low vaccine coverage because of the Dengvaxia scare” is behind this outbreak and (2) the…

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Society

Dengvaxia debacle was not Duterte’s fault, requires more sober discussion

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Dengvaxia debacle was not Duterte’s fault, requires more sober discussion

The whole problem with the Dengvaxia issue (and other issues of national consequence for that matter) is that the focus of commentators is on personalities and pointing fingers at them. It also does not help that the pre-eminent Opposition “thought leaders” like Jim Paredes are leading the thinking down such a moronic path… Who really…

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Government, Politics