Compared to the $8B US aid to Taiwan, the $500M “alms” to Ph is not even good enough to console an “ally” wiling to share Taiwan’s risks in allowing additional EDCA sites in Northern Luzon to help facilitate movement of US war materiel and logistics in case of a China invasion.

A Marcos-Duterte (and I mean families) political alliance in the 2025 midterm elections will carry a formidable senatorial slate that could result in a worst 10-2 or best 12-0 outcome even without Smartmatic intervention and reinforcement from winnable nincompoops.

If all wives are as fiercely loyal to their husbands as FLLAM is to PBBM, all married men can focus on their jobs or just relax with folded arms, crossed legs up without having to stress themselves with haters and their sympathizers.

Only after finding and neutralizing the source will the PNP/PDEA have succeeded in crossing the finish line ahead of the drug syndicate. Make no mistake: this drug haul was no mean feat that rightly deserves the president’s attention, no less. newsinfo.inquirer.net/1930130/p13-b-…

A study of the monarchies in the Middle Ages has taught us this: When you take a shot at the king, it is best that you don’t miss.

No ‘wang-wang’ policy: From Pnoy to Pbong. It may look petty to the usual critics but to us who discern, it is the message to public servants that matters. It is a constant reminder that we, the people may not be their masters but definitely, they are our servants.

Thank you for this Malacañang.

Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan: PMA Class 1971 First Captain, former Army colonel, former rebel and ex-detainee, former senator of the republic and former DICT secretary. A leader and patriot who risked his life a number of times for the sake of the next generation of Filipinos.

Unless our economic managers revisit and reform the budget expenditure program on redundant social services - courtesy of favored legislators who realign billions to ‘ayudas’ outside the traditional 4P’s, we may never get out of the rut we’re stuck in. philstar.com/business/2024/…

BGen Victor Corpus AFP (Ret). 16 years after he committed the wrongful acts by destroying my honor and integrity through fed false intelligence information, he had the humility and courage to come to me personally to ask for forgiveness and thereafter even issued a public

Big congrats to our beautiful Hiromi Eve for winning 3 golds and 1 silver in her very first out-of-country gymnastics competition in Thailand.

The country’s debt service in 2023 was P1.6 trillion which was our entire national budget in 2011. Unless we temper greed with conscience in wasting public funds, hopelessness will outpace our children’s future.

I hope this formula will work but at least three issues need to be resolved -
First, the manner of voting as a bicameral body to reconcile the conflicting provisions - is it by 3/4 votes of the entire membership, or 3/4 of the members of each house?
Second, as in the budget

AKAP (Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program) is one budget shenanigan that makes me miss my late-night sessions with my former Senate team - Louie, Domzki, Jen, Claud, Cesar, Darleen, Marlon, Kori, Deneese, etc - during budget deliberations. Missing Inna’s midnight snacks as well.

Presidential Legal Counsel, Secretary Juan Valentin Furagganan Ponce Enrile, better known as JPE - former Assemblyman, Minister of Defense, Senator, Congressman (representing the 1st District of Cagayan Province), Senate President, the first and only longest-serving and STILL

Hindi ka nag-iisa…

A tweeter’s options: If the reply is a contrary opinion - read and understand; if it’s unreasonable - read and ignore; if irrational and vitriolic - mute; if it’s copy paste nonsense - block and make the low-life troll handler create another false account.

Without any corroborating witness or physical evidence to support his testimony, Arturo Lascañas, a flip-flopping witness during our Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs public hearings cannot withstand the standards of a fair trial.

P14.62-T in debt and counting. Pnoy never forgot to bring his old, extra large calculator during cabinet meetings and caucuses. As President, he borrowed the least and left office with only P5.9-T national debt to settle. I called him Comptroller in Chief in one of our private

Why secession will not happen.
1987 Philippine Constitution, Article I
“The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction…”