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Incumbent Cebu congressmen, almost all invincible

By Atty Josehus B Jimenez | August 14, 2021 - 12:00am

In the Philippines, and perhaps all over the world, politicians don’t win based on merit and fitness.

Freeman Opinion

Old porky habits die hard: P300M for each congressman

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | September 6, 2019 - 12:00am

Congressmen are at it again. Barely two weeks after promising to enact a pork-free state budget for 2020, they recalled the bill purposely to insert personal pork barrels in it.

Opinion

Separation of powers: Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary

By Atty. Josephus B Jimenez | July 3, 2019 - 12:00am

Sometimes the most innocent children just, out of the blue, ask the most difficult questions and then make us think of the most fundamental things.

Freeman Opinion

How to measure the performance of congressmen

By Atty. Josephus B Jimenez | February 28, 2019 - 12:00am

Eternal vigilance, it has been said, is the price of liberty. The people should be watchful of what their congressmen have done and have failed to do.

Freeman Opinion

Of abusive congressmen and incompetent bureaucrats

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | October 6, 2018 - 12:00am

The display of blatant arrogance by that partylist congressman in the airport is indicative of the moral decay in the ranks of our officialdom.

Freeman Opinion

Politics always divides the people

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | April 24, 2018 - 12:00am

Mayors, governors, congressmen, senators, and presidents should unite and not fragment the people. But politics often cause too much fragmentation.

Freeman Opinion

Questions that all Cebu congressmen should answer

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | January 5, 2016 - 9:00am

Now that most of our Cebu representatives are asking us to give them another mandate to represent the Cebuanos in the House of Representatives, it is our right, nay, our duty to require them to make a truthful and...

Freeman Opinion

All barangays should also be audited by COA

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | September 4, 2015 - 10:00am

One will be surprised how rampant is graft in our country. Our thesis is that, in the government, corruptions are endemic and nation-wide, massive and widespread.

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL – Medical marijuana bill flirts with the devil

August 16, 2015 - 10:00am

Marijuana admittedly must have some medical uses.

Freeman Opinion

What have our congressmen done?

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | February 19, 2015 - 12:00am

The people spend millions of public funds every month to finance each congressman.

Freeman Opinion