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Fast flimsy alibis for Comelec flops

May 16, 2025 - 12:00am

Comelec never runs out of ruses. Here’s its latest – for myriad complainers last Election Day that their voter receipts didn’t match the ballots they cast:

Bam, Kiko, Akbayan top Congress races

by Jarius Bondoc - May 14, 2025 - 12:00am

The surprise senatorial victories of Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan shows Filipinos’ desire for accountability.

Rate your candidate with these 13 questions

by Jarius Bondoc - May 9, 2025 - 12:00am

Has your candidate ever been involved in corruption or misuse of public funds?

May your kids grow up to be like the persons you elect

by Jarius Bondoc - May 7, 2025 - 12:00am

May your children and grandchildren grow up to be like the persons you vote for.

Whom to elect or not for God, country, self

by Jarius Bondoc - May 2, 2025 - 12:00am

Archbishop Socrates Villegas wrote a “Catholic and Patriotic Catechism for Elections 2025” to “the People of God in the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan.”

Manchurian Candidates silent on China ‘grab’ of Sandy Cay

by Jarius Bondoc - April 30, 2025 - 12:00am

Rody Duterte’s senatorial candidates can have a show of hands. Who among them will jet ski to Sandy Cay, plant the Philippine flag, and declare “This is ours?”

Tally voter receipts to check if machines counted right

by Jarius Bondoc - April 25, 2025 - 12:00am

Before becoming election commissioner, computer expert Nelson Celis had a novel proposal for Election 2022:

‘Vote selling’ a lousy alibi to withhold ballot receipt

by Jarius Bondoc - April 23, 2025 - 12:00am

Glib talk won’t allay fears of rigging in Comelec’s first-ever overseas online voting. Only sincerity will.

If China ‘owns’ WPS, why is it destructive?

by Jarius Bondoc - April 16, 2025 - 12:00am

Google Maps, Google Earth and Flight Radar now distinguish West Philippine Sea from South China Sea. The world’s most popular digital cartographs thus validate Philippines’ exclusive economic zone under...

Filipino civilians too must prepare for China attackon nearby Taiwan

by Jarius Bondoc - April 9, 2025 - 12:00am

We’ve all heard accounts from our olds. Before the Occupation, Japanese migrant workers flocked to Philippine cities.

Filipinos are starving, politicos are insatiable

by Jarius Bondoc - April 4, 2025 - 12:00am

A hungry man is not a free man.

Despite BBM veto, Public Works budget still exceeds Education

by Jarius Bondoc - April 2, 2025 - 12:00am

Numbers don’t lie, people do.

Report Chinese spying, other suspicious schemes

by Jarius Bondoc - March 28, 2025 - 12:00am

The arrest of six suspected Chinese spies in Subic Freeport last week is the fourth Philippine counterespionage strike reported this year alone.

Now they’re hijacking Ninoy’s martyr legacy

by Jarius Bondoc - March 26, 2025 - 12:00am

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.

Bato expected personal loyalty from NSA Año, CIDG Gen. Torre

by Jarius Bondoc - March 21, 2025 - 12:00am

Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa broadcast Wednesday his grudge against National Security Adviser Eduardo Año:

Can Duterte request bail, strike plea bargain at ICC?

by Jarius Bondoc - March 19, 2025 - 12:00am

What are Rodrigo Duterte’s and co-respondents’ options at the International Criminal Court?

Law allows Duterte’s turnover to ICC; Bato, Albayalde next

by Jarius Bondoc - March 14, 2025 - 12:00am

Did government break the law in turning over Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court?

Try him too for crimes against sovereignty

by Jarius Bondoc - March 12, 2025 - 12:00am

Rodrigo Duterte will be remembered for surrendering Philippine sovereignty.

Palawan’s first inhabitant was Tabon Man, not Chinaman

by Jarius Bondoc - March 7, 2025 - 12:00am

That explorer Zheng He “discovered” Palawan isn’t the only historical lie Communist Chinese is peddling.

Pork barrels blocking our defense build-up vs China

by Jarius Bondoc - March 5, 2025 - 12:00am

War is imminent with Communist China. Seventy-seven percent of us Filipinos will fight for the motherla

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