Our friends at Congressional Observer (who are even more indolent than us when it comes to updates) report the House of Representatives has been as quiet as a tomb these past few weeks. Have you ever seen a Congress that is really quiet? During session breaks, it is really a ghost town. With the exception [...]
Benjamin Abalos, former Commission on Elections chairman and paragon of integrity, has accused Justice Secretary Leila De Lima of harboring criminals. By harboring criminals, of course, Abalos means putting two witnesses who tagged him in alleged poll fraud in 2007 under the Witness Protection Program. He says former Comelec election supervisors Lilian Suan-Radam and Yogie Martiriza [...]
A veteran employee at one government office stands to lose his retirement benefits over a bullshit complaint by a reporter from a small (in size and circulation) paper. The reporter has accused the employee, who works in the media division of that government office, of kicking him and cursing at him over some minor misunderstanding. [...]
Little more than a year into a three-year term, Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao has already had enough of the House of Representatives and wants to move to the Sarangani provincial capitol in 2013. The professional boxer and part-time congressman is reportedly “[dismayed] over the slow pace of how changes for the country are made [...]
Here’s a nice reversal on things. Sectoral group Bayan Muna filed a plunder case against Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday over the failed ZTE National Broadband Network deal. Reporters scrambled to cover it and got the story. Here is a sidebar to the whole thing: While this was going on, politician sent out a text [...]
Congressional hearings do not have a monopoly on flaring tempers and drama. The action can spill over into the sidelines as journalists covering the Congress beat found last week when two reporters from rival networks almost came to blows. Witnesses say the fight started when one veteran reporter lady, let’s call her Long Time, tried [...]
Oh, my saints and moral guardians! The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has ordered the remaining Filipino delegates to the World Youth Day in Spain to come home or risk becoming illegal aliens. Of 427 delegates to the World Youth Day, 128 have yet to return to the Philippines and have one more day [...]