WikiLeaks Offers Info on Cuba
All the WikiLeaks attention so far has been on Afghanistan, but apparently there is some serious information about Cuba in the dump as well. The Miami Herald, relying heavily on Spain's El Pais,...
View ArticleRick Scott, Transparent as Corporate America
Government in the Sunshine. The concept is at the core of Florida government perhaps more than any other single philosophy, and something which has historically made us the pride of the nation among...
View ArticleMoving the Agenda Leftward the Grayson Way
The new NY Times interview with Alan Grayson is great reading, but it also is important in reminding what is at stake in the next two years politically for House Democrats. I want to take issue with a...
View ArticleOK Florida, Let's Get to Work
The sky hasn't fallen. Florida hasn't been swallowed by the Earth. Planet-raping oil companies have not been given an OK to put a rig off the shores of Miami Beach.But Rick Scott is now the governor of...
View ArticleHypocrisy on Cuban Policy
Whenever any change in U.S. Policy is considered regarding Cuba, we as a nation must endure the same hypocritical moralizing from extremists. Castro is a terrible ruler. The Castros treat political...
View ArticleWest: Ellison Represents Antithesis of US Principles
Well, this will make the next Congressional Black Caucus meeting more fun.Rep. Allen 'Wild Wild' West told the Shalom Show that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, 'really does...
View ArticleChallenger: The Remembered Moment
The loss of the Challenger was somehow one of those moments everyone who lived through it seems to remember the same as 9-11 or, from what I have heard, the deaths of JFK and FDR. We all know exactly...
View ArticleDo We Save Or Deny the Everglades
For those wondering why so little has appeared on this blog the last week, I got to spend most of last week in the Everglades chaperoning a class camping trip with my son. It was a great experience all...
View ArticleFlorida Looks at Shariah Law
Being from Lake County, I was extremely disappointed, but sadly unsurprised, that a couple representatives for the area are the designated hate-mongers pushing a bill through the Legislature which...
View ArticleFL-25: GOP Finding Ways to Oust Rivera. We Should Too!
Truly, without doubt, the most shameful election result to come out of the Sunshine State last year was the election of Rep. David Rivera, R-Underworld. But don't take my word on it. Read Politico.From...
View ArticleFl-Sen: Mr. McGillicuddy is Out
The first serious challenger to Bill Nelson has chickened out.--- “The time is not right for me,” (Connie) Mack said. “You have to put family and friends above political ambitions, and that is what I...
View ArticleMy Condescending Defense of Terry Jones' Free Speech
I'm having trouble swallowing the notion that violence has been introduced to Afghanistan thanks to the actions of Florida Pastor Terry Jones. Never mind the fact warlords have been clashing in the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Wasserman Schultz Running DNC
Any doubts about Florida's importance in 2012 just got erased. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just got tapped to head to Democratic National Committee.
View ArticleAnd When You Run Out of Arguments...
Nobody in American politics is willing to admit defeat, especially in the war of ideas, but we do have a long tradition of resorting a certain alternative: personal attacks. Read just such a tactic in...
View ArticleResign as Speaker
John Boehner has failed as a leader of the Speaker of the House. He has done so on a more critical issue than Nancy Pelosi or Dennis Hassert ever did.The failure to vote on a plan last night, days...
View ArticleRick Scott 700,000 lies
See what I did there? That headline makes it sound like Rick Scott has told 700,000 lies since taking office. He has probably told far fewer, at least consequential ones, but it sound like a really big...
View ArticleRick Scott's 700,000 Lies
See what I did there? That headline makes it sound like Rick Scott has told 700,000 lies since taking office. He has probably told far fewer, at least consequential ones, but it sound like a really big...
View ArticleFL-Sen: Mr. McGillicuddy Flip Flops, Joins Race
My own Congressman has entered the US Senate race, the one he said he wouldn't enter a few months ago during a clearly botched unroll on the same courthouse steps where his father announced a...
View ArticleMoney for Nothing
Watching Mitt Romney argue with himself about whether he headed Bain Capital, effectively or officially, in that period between 1999 and 2002 has been entertaining, but if you ask me, the real outrage...
View ArticleSo Who Built That Forum?
As thousands of Republicans chant "We Built It" in the middle of a taxpayer-subsidized arena, I just can't help but laugh.
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