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The Disbursement Acceleration Program or DAP has many faces that can be viewed from different angles: economic, legal and political. […]

The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) is detested because the law creating it is unconstitutional; it authorizes lawmakers to implement

If the Supreme Court declares the pork barrel law unconstitutional, is there still a need for Congress to act? Likewise,

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, Congress shall enact laws, the president shall execute them, and the Supreme Court

Interesting, challenging and at times intriguing were the readers’ replies to the query I posed last Sunday on whether our

As one of the 10 holders of the “Chief Justice Panganiban Professorial Chairs on Liberty and Prosperity,” Dean Jose Manuel

“When guns speak, laws are silent,” so it has been said. This is true in wars  among sovereign nations. It

The least our enraged people expect from the different government entities  and officials authorized by law to solve the pork

With the filing of the complaints for plunder, graft, bribery and malversation against 38 persons, including three senators and five

On its face, the pork barrel system appears to be a democratic way of apportioning government resources. Inherited from the