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Quorum, Power, and the Bending of the Law, Part 2: The Doctrine, the Distortion, and the Deal Behind the Drama.

Series: Quorum, Power, and the Bending of the Law The Great Philippine Senate Teleserye of 2026 A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, Crossdisciplinary, and Normative Transdisciplinary Analysis ◄ Part 1: The Session, the Senators, and the Teleserye They All Scripted | Part 2: The Doctrine, the Distortion, and the Deal Behind the Drama One Senate Session. Seven Disciplines. One…

Quorum, Power, and the Bending of the Law, Part 1: The Session, the Senators, and the Teleserye They All Scripted

Quorum, Power, and the Bending of the Law, Part 1 | Zigfred Diaz Series: Quorum, Power, and the Bending of the Law The Great Philippine Senate Teleserye of 2026 A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, Crossdisciplinary, and Normative Transdisciplinary Analysis Part 1 of 2: The Session, the Senators, and the Teleserye They All Scripted| Part 2: The Verdict, the Victims, and the Law…

Series: The Hague Is Not The Way Why the ICC’s Warrant Against Dela Rosa Is the Wrong Justice in the Wrong Place Part 1: The Case, the Court, and the Question Nobody Is Asking | Part 2: The Legal Maze | Part 3: Sovereignty ✦ | Part 4: Power, Politics, and the ICC’s Dirty Secret | Part 5: Who Were the Victims? | Part 6: The Ethics of Justice | Part 7: The Theological Reckoning Here…

Serving, Not Selling: What Christian Marketing Really Looks Like

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Too Heavenly Minded, Too Earthly Useless - Why the Church Must Respond to the Issues Tearing Apart the Nation

The importance of a theological and prophetic reckoning with the ICC, Bato Dela Rosa’s Arrest, Impeachment, Corruption, Flood control scandal and other Burning Questions a Sleeping Church Refuses to Answer “I thought this was a room for pastors. Why do you post this Hague stuff? Are you about the father’s business and knowing Jesus and making him known? What is this going to profit the body of…

The Legal Maze: Jurisdiction, Withdrawal, and the Dissent Nobody Wants to Discuss

Series: The Hague Is Not The Way Why the ICC’s Warrant Against Dela Rosa Is the Wrong Justice in the Wrong Place Part 1: The Case, the Court, and the Question Nobody Is Asking | Part 2: The Legal Maze ✦ | Part 3: Sovereignty — Why This Is Our Fight, Not The Hague’s | Part 4: Power, Politics, and the ICC’s Dirty Secret | Part 5: Who Were the Victims? | Part 6: The Ethics of Justice…

The Hague Is Not The Way, Part 1: The Case, the Court, and the Question Nobody Is Asking

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Pragmatism, Peace and the Presidency: Why VP Sara Duterete should resign

Pragmatism, Peace, and the Presidency: Why Sara Should Step Aside | Life Hacks for Polymaths A strategic suggestion for Vice President Sara Duterte to Resign, Redirect and Rise Again in 2028 The Philippines stands at a precarious crossroads. Its economy is stumbling, its institutions are strained, and its political theater has become a spectacle that alarms investors, exhausts citizens, and…

#Marcos Duterte feud #OFW remittances #Philippine economy 2026 #Philippine presidential election 2028 #Philippine Senate 2026 #political instability Philippines #Sara Duterte #Sara Duterte 2028 #Sara Duterte impeachment #US Iran war Philippines impact #why sara duterte should resign

When ‘The Prenup’ Stops Being Romantic Comedy

The Legal Limits, Lines, and Liabilities of Love and Control Under Philippine Law The Legal Limits, Lines, and Liabilities of Love and Control Under Philippine Law What was once portrayed in the Filipino romantic-comedy film The Prenup1 as lighthearted family drama and premarital tension has found renewed relevance in real-world public discourse. In the movie, the prenuptial agreement was not…

#celebrity prenup #child custody Philippines #contractual freedom #Family Code of the Philippines #Filipino culture #legal analysis #love and control #marital rights #marriage and law #marriage settlements #parental authority #Philippine Family Code #Philippine law #Philippine society #prenuptial agreement #RA 10655 #RA 9262 #The Prenup film

The Sotto Gambit Meets Reality: What Yesterday's Senate Leadership Change Means for the Theory

The Sotto Gambit — Addendum | May 11, 2026 A theory published this morning. Reality tested it this afternoon. Here is the honest account of what changed and what did not. Five days ago, Blog Post 1 of the Sotto Gambit series went live on this blog. It introduced a constitutional theory for Philippine democratic reset, argued that the pre-2028 window is the critical reform aperture, and proposed a…

#2028 elections #Alan Cayetano #constitutional reform #Duterte acquittal #Duterte network #Imee Marcos #impeachment 2026 #Philippine democratic reset #Philippine politics #Plan B #Sara Duterte #Senate leadership #Senate Philippines #Sotto Gambit #Sotto ouster #Vicente Sotto III

The Sotto Gambit, Part 2: Why 2028 is already too late

The Sotto Gambit — Part 2 of 7 Why the pre-2028 constitutional timeline is not avoidance. It is the only strategy that works. In Part 1 of this series, we established the crisis: surging inflation, a stagnating economy, leaders consumed by political warfare instead of governance, and a 2028 election that, under existing rules, will produce a new manager of an old broken system. We introduced the…

The Sotto Gambit, Part 1: A Theory for Saving the Republic

The Sotto Gambit, Part 1: A Theory for Saving the Republic | Life Hacks for Polymaths The Sotto Gambit — Part 1 of 7 A Theory for Saving the Republic In February 2026, Philippine inflation stood at 2.4 percent. By April 2026, it had surged to 7.2 percent. That is nearly triple in sixty days. Diesel prices posted a triple-digit inflation rate of 122.7 percent. Rice, which feeds this nation,…

#2028 elections #Charter change #Con-Con Philippines #constitutional reform #democratic reset #Duterte #Marcos administration #Philippine democracy #Philippine inflation #Philippine politics #political theory #Sara Duterte impeachment #Sotto Gambit #Vicente Sotto III #Vico Sotto

Manuscripts, Misinformation, and the Myth of the 1,800-Year Bible

Manuscripts, Misinformation, and the Myth of the 1,800-Year Bible April 29, 2026 · by Zigfred Diaz I scrolled past a post on Facebook the other day that said something like this: “Prior to the 19th century, Christians were reading from the Byzantine text. Then Westcott and Hort with their enlightenment/age of reason thinking assumed they knew more about the GNT than the believers who copied,…

Myths, Muscles and Mactan: The Lapu-Lapu We Keep Inventing

History · Kadaugan sa Mactan 2026 A reflection on the eve of Kadaugan sa Mactan. Zig Diaz · 26 April 2026 Tomorrow, Lapu-Lapu City marks Kadaugan sa Mactan, the annual commemoration of the Battle of Mactan on 27 April 1521, the encounter in which Ferdinand Magellan was killed and the first sustained European attempt to subjugate a Visayan polity was repelled. It is one of the most important civic…

The 99.74% Question - On the Monterrazas de Cebu Brouhaha

A Critical Examination of the “Science” behind the Monterrazas de Cebu’s “defense” On November 2025, Typhoon Tino made landfall over Cebu and left behind a trail of destruction that killed dozens, displaced thousands, and submerged communities that residents say had never flooded with such ferocity before. In the days and weeks that followed, public anger coalesced around a single image that…

Art, Myth, and Labubu: Is It Demonic? A Reformed Christian Reflection

I recently came across a video by a pastor on Facebook in which he claims that Labubu is demonic. In his vlog, he presents several arguments and even references Scripture to support his position. You can view the two part video here. Part 1 – https://www.facebook.com/PastorCjDavid/videos/1076820917262639 Part 2 – https://www.facebook.com/PastorCjDavid/videos/1324449458995357 The argument that…

Debunking KJV Onlyism: Pointing out errors in the "Providential Preservation of the text of the New Testament" chart

Have you seen the chart below? It has been circulating on the internet and across social media for some time now. Many of you may have noticed that a lot of my posts tackle issues related to King James Version (KJV) Onlyism. This issue is particularly close to my heart, as I grew up in a denomination that staunchly advocated this viewpoint. I spent decades in an Independent Fundamental Baptist…

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