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Outgoing Senator Drilon is probably getting senile

"He does not seem to know the provisions of the Constitution." Outgoing Senator Franklin Drilon is probably getting senile already. At 76 years old, he...

Corrupt? Not me, President tells senators

“I will not become President if I am corrupt like you,” President Rodrigo Duterte told Senators Richard Gordon and Franklin Drilon on Wednesday. Duterte responded...

Correcting history

"This is what lawyer Larry Gadon is saying."   Early last month, President Rodrigo Duterte, apparently pissed at Senator Franklin Drilon’s incessant tirade against his administration...

Paper to prove COVID jabs for OFWs sought

Senator Franklin Drilon is backing a proposal for a standard international proof of vaccination, which would benefit overseas Filipino workers. “We must have a document...

Learning our lesson

The inauspicious start of this year’s Southeast Asian (SEA) Games is quickly becoming a lesson for Filipino officials. Two things need to be done. First,...

Villar debunks Drilon’s claim of PH’s ‘dismal’ infra projects

The Department of Public Works and Highways contradicted opposition Senator Franklin Drilon’s claim that the Duterte’s “Build, Build, Build” program as a dismal failure,...

PPO goes to Albay, Davao and Iloilo next year

The new administration of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is determined to bring orchestral music to the provinces with the Philippine Philharmonic...

Liberals ‘haunted by own ghosts’

MALACAÑANG on Friday said the opposition Liberal Party was spooked by its own ghosts and said the Palace had nothing to do with the...

LP stalwarts slam ‘all-out’ squid tactics

Drug allegations against Liberal Party stalwarts Senator Franklin Drilon and former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II was the Duterte administration “going all-out to...

Delaying the inevitable

If you believe that there is a concerted effort to bury the charges of alleged ill-gotten wealth against Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista,...

Judy and Nic

Good people with good intentions, believe it or not, don’t necessarily produce good work. And I’m not even talking about Judy Taguiwalo, whom I...

Missing the point

First, the Yellows, who have inexplicably decided that they should circle the wagons around embattled Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista, wanted us to...

When pigs fly

On the surface, Senator Franklin Drilon appears to be the voice of reason amid the various calls for a congressional investigation of embattled Commission...

Drilon castigates ‘arrogant’ Pernia

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon assailed National Economic and Development Authority chief Ernesto Pernia and called him arrogant for “pressuring” them to approve the...
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