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The broader view
Elections and democracy
by Harry Roque - October 12, 2024 - 12:00am
We take pride in the Philippines as the bastion of democracy in Asia. Modeled after the United States, the Philippines is under a presidential form of government.
Tension in the Middle East
by Harry Roque - October 5, 2024 - 12:00am
I spent many sleepless nights watching the late evening news on the escalating tension in the Middle East.
Sara wins
by Harry Roque - September 28, 2024 - 12:00am
To play or not to play with traditional politicians: this is the question that Vice President Inday Sara Duterte answered from the onset of the House of Representatives budget hearing of her office, the Office of...
Fugitive?
by Harry Roque - September 21, 2024 - 12:00am
The House of Representatives quad committee (quad comm) on Tuesday called me a defiant fugitive from justice – ouch! – after citing me in contempt for the second time and issuing an arrest order for my...
Defanging the Vice President
by Harry Roque - September 14, 2024 - 12:00am
The House of Representatives committee on appropriations decided last Thursday to cut the proposed 2025 Office of the Vice President budget of P2.037 billion to only P733.198 millionThe cut, which is about P1.29...
Motion to quash
by Harry Roque - September 7, 2024 - 12:00am
Two years ago, I was hospitalized for almost a week in Laos for spinal stenosis, a serious and excruciating back condition.
TPO
by Harry Roque - August 31, 2024 - 12:00am
In March 2008, the Supreme Court granted the first ever Petition for the Writ of Amparo in favor of my client, the late Calapan City-based journalist Nilo Baculo Sr.
Honest mistake
by Harry Roque - August 24, 2024 - 12:00am
I have battled diabetes mellitus for decades and survived an unstable angina coronary disease in 2019 and Covid-19 in 2021.
Mandatory drug test
by Harry Roque - August 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Yes and no.
Throwing down the gauntlet
by Harry Roque - August 10, 2024 - 12:00am
At a time when our state officials are wanting in solicitude – amid the high self-rated poverty and self-rated hunger among Filipinos – I am thankful that we have a leader like Sara Duterte who genuinely...
Witch hunt
by Harry Roque - August 3, 2024 - 12:00am
The tyranny of the strange bedfellows – the pro-Marcos Jr. forces in tandem with the Liberal Party/Akbayan faction – is upon the Duterte family and their allies.
Nature as fact-checker
by Harry Roque - July 27, 2024 - 12:00am
I thought the great deluge of 2009 was a once-in-a-lifetime ordeal for the people of the Greater Manila Area. Fifteen years have passed but our politicos and public servants have not learned a thing from the Ondoy...
Universal health care superior to appropriations act
by Harry Roque - July 20, 2024 - 12:00am
Generalia specialibus non derogant.
When the news reverses facts
by Harry Roque - July 13, 2024 - 12:00am
“Nevertheless, the constitutionally protected freedoms enjoyed by the press cannot be used as a shield to advance the malicious propagation of false information carried out by unscrupulous entities to injure...
Gamble away
by Harry Roque - July 6, 2024 - 12:00am
In a 2022 interview, I was asked an existential question. On Judgment Day, what would I tell my Creator as my most significant contribution to the nation? My quick response was the Universal Health Care Act of...
Wake up!
by Harry Roque - June 29, 2024 - 12:00am
Filipinos of the pro-imperialist kind do have a short memory.
Unbowed
by Harry Roque - June 22, 2024 - 12:00am
For the most popular elected official of the land, the die is cast, the battle lines drawn.
Overkill
by Harry Roque - June 15, 2024 - 12:00am
Our constitutional right to security is sacrosanct.
More noble cause?
by Harry Roque - June 8, 2024 - 12:00am
In honor of my late mother, Dr. Adelaida Lopez-Roque, I principally authored the Universal Health Care Act. It was the first bill I filed as a party-list representative on the first hour of the first day of the 17th...
Mid-range attack
by Harry Roque - June 1, 2024 - 12:00am
A nuclear war-ready Russia and an incensed China have vowed retaliatory measures against America’s prepositioning of a mid-range capability (MRC) missile system in the Philippines.
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