Pork Better Than Viagra: Top Five Latin American Politician Quotes

We love our neighbors across the Gulf. Like bright, beautiful, nonsensical birds, they make the jail cells of our daily lives that much more colorful. Take their politicians. While Barack Obama is er-umming about the deficit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is disinterring a 200-year-old corpse and weeping about it, all…

McCollum: Rekers Was “The Best Expert”

Surprise! Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum still opposes gay adoption — notwithstanding the spectacular downfall of his hand-picked anti-gay expert, George Alan Rekers. “I don’t believe the gay family model is good for kids,” McCollum said this week to the Sun-Sentinel — which duly noted that one…

CBS4 Cameraman Detained After Brawl at City Hall

A brawl between a CBS4 cameraman and police officers broke out today during a Miami City Commission meeting. Sources at the scene say that the cameraman — a large man in a red shirt — was hauled away in a cop car after getting into an argument with a police…

For Jeb Bush, Not Running For President is a Full-Time Job

Of all the things Jeb Bush has done since leaving the Governor’s office — working on education reform, making a living, maybe secretly still running the state — the thing he’s done most publicly is not running for president. That Jeb is always out there not running for president. Just…

Rick Scott Promises to “Look Into” Obama’s Birth Certificate

Following in the footsteps of Marco Rubio, Republican Governor Candidate Rick Scott has found himself flirting with the birther movement. When speaking today at a rally in Central Florida’s uber-retirement mecca, The Villages, he was confronted with a question over the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate he admitted he didn’t…

White Pride Group Urges Tea Party to Flaunt Its Bigotry

Is the Tea Party racist? The NAACP thinks so. And the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white pride group, agrees. Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the Council’s website yesterday — and it would be proud of its racism if it weren’t wussy…

Openly Gay Candidate Scott Galvin’s Signs Defaced With Homophobic Slur

Scott Galvin has served for years on the North Miami City Council and came out publicly in 2004 with little consequences and was re-elected. Now he has set his sights on a congressional seat and is running in the district Kendrick Meek is vacating. He’s the only openly gay and white candidate seeking the Democratic nomination, but…