Why is Jun Lozada loitering around? No, it's not Loy Palapos asking but former Senate Pres. Jovito Salonga, What is he up to? Who is bankrolling his expenses in his "campus tours.

Would the allegations he made before the Senate inquiry become gospel truth when it is repeated in every campus around the archipelago? Is this an application of the so-called Goebbels' theory where a lie frequently repeated becomes true?

We are not saying that Lozada is lying or not. Not even the Senate because it is not the proper venue to ascertain the truth. Senators would only like to hear what suits their political motives. They are lawmakers, not judges. Let them legislate rather than investigate. They have had enough of it. And we are almost fed up.

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In Bohol, we have a potential whistle blower who turned out to be whistled himself. Boy Pernia is supposed to get a pat in the back for exposing an alleged P2 million anomaly at the Capitol.

But because there is a criminal masquerading as a mediaman who tried but failed to blackmail Pernia, the potential whistle blower turned out to be whistled by his ex-future blackmailer.

At any rate, Pernia must expose this mediaman who allegedly demanded a budget from him in exchange for not publishing the alleged Capitol coop fund anomaly. Local media practitioners should be one in condemning this vicious act lest they become suspects too.

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A simple invitation for an arms supplier to attend the Liga ng mga Barangay meeting here last week turned out to be a hot issue of the week.

Taking cue from reports that the punong barangays (not barangay captains, please) are planning to arm themselves for inviting Shooters, an arms dealer, Vice-Mayor Toto Veloso jumped the gun on them by taking a stand during his radio program last Wednesday.

Under the law, punong barangays are authorized to carry guns within their respective territorial jurisdictions. So let them decide whether it is proper for them to be armed or not. What's the purpose of electing if we don't give them the discretion to determine what is proper or not? At any rate, their actions would be judged in the next barangay elections.

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Judge Ed Vincent Albano, acknowledged as the next JBL Reyes, breezed into town last Thursday. Albano is an authority in Remedial Law and Civil Law and has been a widely-respected reviewer and lecturer in these legal fields.

Through the auspices of RTC Judge Teofilo Baluma, Albano found his way into the HNU Law Center last Thursday evening where he had a "pep talk" with graduating law students.

Listening him rattle off jurisprudence and decided cases for two straight hours as if those were just in his finger tips still mesmerizes us just like when we used to take our Civil Law review classes with him in San Beda College almost a decade ago.

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ADVISORY. The Regional Trial Court of Bohol, Branch 47 is moving from the Hall of Justice area to its new location at the Freemason's building along J.A Clarin Street this city.

Judge Suceso Arcamo of RTC Branch 47, said the provincial government will still be shouldering the rental of the building as its old site is already considered a fire hazard.

Just recently, the Supreme Court has also designated RTC Branch 47 as an environmental court in Bohol.