Philstar.com

GOTCHA

+ Follow Column

Although victimized in PhilHealth hacking, members will pay penalty

by Jarius Bondoc - January 8, 2025 - 12:00am

Government kicked us PhilHealth members thrice in the gut in 2024

After BBM’s cosmetic veto, budget still crookedest ever

by Jarius Bondoc - January 3, 2025 - 12:00am

“Veto” was a brand of underarm cream in the 1960s. President Bongbong Marcos’ partial veto of the 2025 budget attempts to deodorize.

Impeach VP Sara yourself, don’t use PhilHealth money

by Jarius Bondoc - January 1, 2025 - 12:00am

We own PhilHealth. Employees have been contributing for 30 years since 1995. Total: 66.67 million contributors, dependents, retirees.

New vocabulary of ‘brat’ Innocents

by Jarius Bondoc - December 27, 2024 - 12:00am

“For your generation, what does ‘tito’ or ‘tita’ mean?” asked Ms. Rellzah, 22, my Gen Z partner in Sapol-dwIZ.

Drawing 42 branches of Jesus’ family tree

by Jarius Bondoc - December 25, 2024 - 12:00am

Of the four evangelists, Matthew was unique in tracing Jesus’ lineage, Chapter 1:1-17:

They’re blatantly lying to hide budget plunder

by Jarius Bondoc - December 20, 2024 - 12:00am

ng sinungaling ay kapatid ng magnanakaw.

Die, Filipinos, die; budget isn’t for you

by Jarius Bondoc - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am

The President proposed a lavish P16.3-billion budget for the House of Reps in 2025. And P12.8 billion for the Senate.

They’d be fooling us again on PhilHealth, education

by Jarius Bondoc - December 13, 2024 - 12:00am

‘We’re dumb – all 119 million of us Filipinos.

BBM gave confidential funds; Sara used it as ‘secret kitty’

by Jarius Bondoc - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am

Confidential funds at first melded the Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte political dynasties. It later melted their unity.

How much for these five to win a coup d’état?

by Jarius Bondoc - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am

Juan Ponce Enrile could’ve perished in his 1986 mutiny against Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The dictator’s tanks were ready to pulverize defense minister Enrile and his band of rebellious colonels. Had millions...

Easy to impeach, but hard to convict

by Jarius Bondoc - December 4, 2024 - 12:00am

Impeachment involves two head counts.

Retired generals demand justice for slain fellow, not coup d’état

by Jarius Bondoc - November 29, 2024 - 12:00am

VP Sara Duterte can take if from Choy’s tweet:

Stand aside, this is a fight of two dynasties

by Jarius Bondoc - November 27, 2024 - 12:00am

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Wacky spending by OVP, DepEd

by Jarius Bondoc - November 22, 2024 - 12:00am

Remember Janet Lim Napoles’ P10-billion pork barrel scam?

Linked to murder and money laundering,Garma seeking US political asylum

by Jarius Bondoc - November 20, 2024 - 12:00am

Ex-PNP Col. Royina Garma is linked to the 2020 assassination of a general. She was influential in Rodrigo Duterte’s admin then.

Drug war: They shoot children, don’t they? (2)

by Jarius Bondoc - November 15, 2024 - 12:00am

Of 122 children killed in the bloody drug war, 47 were by policemen, 75 by unidentified men. “Unidentified” meant either cops out of uniform, or vigilantes.

Drug war: They shoot children, don’t they? (1)

by Jarius Bondoc - November 13, 2024 - 12:00am

One hundred twenty-two children – aged 1 to 17 – were killed in the first half alone of Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year bloody drug war.

Expose the ‘padrinos’ of raided mines, POGO

by Jarius Bondoc - November 8, 2024 - 12:00am

Two illegal mines and a POGO raided recently have been operating for years. Authorities are determining who the “padrinos” are.

Here’s more proof of farcical drug war

by Jarius Bondoc - November 6, 2024 - 12:00am

Google-search shabu busts in July 2016-June 2019. Excel file them into date, seized volume, value, reporting agency, location.

Senators didn’t ask why Duterte’s drug war failed

by Jarius Bondoc - November 1, 2024 - 12:00am

Monday’s hearing at the actor-packed Senate began with comedy. Livestream viewers guffawed as a mustached solon spoke while his Mini-Me sat behind him.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ... | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156

Get Updated: