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Apart from the budget bill, 37 other measures on LEDAC's priority agenda are still pending in various stages of the legislative process, and the president is expected to identify more in his SONA today.

The administration's obsession with sloganeering does not bode well for the current situation when a vast majority of people have identified inflation, wages and jobs as their most urgent concerns.

The anatomy of a logo is such that they are designed to be memorable at a glance. Logos are meant to “encapsulate the entirety of the brand in a single image.”

Pundits point out that a raging political issue in news media has a life as good as only two weeks before fading in the public consciousness.

Now that the one-year ban on appointing defeated candidates in the previous election is over, the president should still apply the "best and brightest" criteria more than personal loyalty and popularity, er, notoriety, in choosing people to serve in government.

Outright, the answer is no.

Isn't it ironic that shortly after committing to fight disinformation, Marcos appoints a creator and spreader of what the public loosely calls "fake news?"

Last year on her 93rd birthday on July 2, Imelda Marcos was feted to a birthday party at the presidential palace where she once spun fairy tales for twenty years.

Sa pag-appoint ni Pangulong Marcos kay Gadon, parang nag-dirty finger na rin s'ya sa mahihirap. Pakinggan ang komentaryo ni Christian Esguerra ngayong linggo.

Padilla and the other senators in the hearing are used to bardagulan — street slang for short and witty retorts — in real and reel life, and he has now taken that even into formal proceedings such as legislative hearings and plenary sessions.

Send them to jail, where the big-time drug lords continue to operate? Dismiss them from the service, so they can work full time with the syndicates? Or, as Duterte has suggested, "ihulog mo?"

The story begins in late November of 2016 at the House of Representatives. At that time, Rodrigo Duterte had already decreed that Leila de Lima must be destroyed.