COA’s assessment of Sara’s CE should have started with a simple question: Was she authorized to dispatch the funds in accordance with the OVP budget? If there were no provisions for such CE in Robredo’s final budget, then COA should throw the book at Sara, OVP chief accountant Julieta Villadelrey and former OVP security chief Col. Raymund Dante Lachica.
“Cogito, ergo sum” is supposed to be Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio’s “philosophy,” as published in her San Pedro College of Davao City yearbook. It is a borrowing from Rene Descartes, who wrote it in Discourse on Method (1637), and commonly translated into English as “I think, therefore I am” or “I am thinking, therefore I exist.” It doesn’t mean “I think, therefore I am right,” or “I insist, therefore you are all wrong.”
Gaano man kasarap ang siopao, siomai at wanton noodles ng Kowloon House, mahirap lunukin na ang katas at sabaw na inihahain nito sa mga kostumer ay pawis at luha ng kanyang mga trabahante. Hindi na muna ako bibili ng anuman sa aming kalapit na Kowloon House hanggang hindi nabibigyang katarungan ang mga manggagawa.
Sara’s camp charged that Madriaga was lying through his teeth, which is incredible given the cherished quotation from Sara that honesty, credibility and sincerity are not needed in politics. This reminds us of Winston Churchill’s quote about Labour politician Stafford Cripps: “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
In the five weeks since shooting started last February 28, the Philippine government is set to collect P47.6 billion in fuel taxes. Even if fulfills its promise to give public transportation drivers cash aids worth P33.77 billion, it would still benefit from a P13.85 billion windfall.
Dahas ng estado sa mamamayan ang pangunahin nitong tugon sa pagkakaroon ng anumang kilusang naglalayong baguhin ang anumang hindi makatwiran sa lipunan. Napatunayan ito sa kasaysayan at batas nang maituturing sa anumang lipunan.
Naganap ito sa panahon ng rehimeng Duterte, subalit hindi maikakaila na nasa interes din na tanggalin ng rehimeng Marcos Jr. ang mga tulad nina Ka Satur at Teacher France at iba pa sa Talaingod 13 sa eksena ng pulitika dahil sa taglay nilang militansya at pagka-makabayan.
Marcos Jr. cannot stop the annual March 29 celebration just as it cannot ban anyone from making December 26 a day of joy. Both days represent the debunking of July 4 and June 12 as days of freedom, imposed as they were by the same ruling class that served colonial and imperialist interests to the hilt.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Oil Excise Tax Suspension Law or Republic Act No. 12316 on Wednesday night, March 25, 2026, but he actually suspended the “suspension” for a date no one could divine.
Marcos Jr.’s Executive Order (EO) No. 110 shifts the burden of the global oil crisis, caused by US–Israel imperialist aggression against Iran, onto ordinary Filipinos, while leaving intact the very policy framework that produced the country’s vulnerability in the first place.
