If all of this talk about Charlie Crist facing an electoral backlash from the right wing of his party in his quest for a Senate seat amounts to anything, Sen. Bill Nelson should perhaps worry about a backlash from Florida’s progressive and liberally inclined voters.Nelson has basically called supporters of the…
Every once in a while, Gov. Charlie Crist remembers he is indeed a member of the Republican Party and not the sole member of the Crist Populist Party of Florida. As a Republican, he must occasionally take a swipe at the Democratic leadership. He decided to do so while pulling…
Tenacity. Vision. Honesty.Tomas Regalado seems pretty upfront about his core values. Those three words are printed in bold atop of hundreds of blue-and-red billboards and bus ads all over town proclaiming his run for mayor. So why won’t he admit that he once helped raise thousands of dollars for a…
So many rappers in the last year have spit some Obama-inspired verses about presidential politics, but it takes a truly politically involved wordsmith to keep a lyrical eye on state politics. But we all know that Trick Daddy is the real Mayor of Miami, so of course he’s keeping tabs…
For reasons we can’t quite comprehend, Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer just released another statement about kids being indoctrinated to praise Obama by citing a YouTube video. This after he made headlines for basically calling the president’s address to schoolchildren socialist propaganda and then admitting the speech was actually good.It’s…
Even some of the more heated Dubya-haters would concede a Jeb Bush presidency probably wouldn’t be worse than his brother’s terms in office. I’m not so sure they’d say the same about Sarah Palin. Yet Palin has a greater favorability rating throughout the land and a better, though still long,…
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has filed a lawsuit against FIU student Hanna Giles, accomplice James O’Keffe, and Breitbart.com, the site that posted their undercover videos.ACORN is seeking “a preliminary and permanent injunction against further distribution” of undercover videos as part of the suit filed in Baltimore,…
Despite rumors, Mark Foley and Charlie Crist say they weren’t roommates (or “roommates”) when they were in the state legislature, but we were under the impression the two were at least chummy. So why does Foley seem to be rooting for Marco Rubio?He attended a recent Rubio fundraiser and later…
Bill Clinton sitting down for a one-on-one with Jon Stewart should be enough reason to watch The Daily Show tonight, but the University of Miami’s official Facebook page promises the ex-prez will make an announcement concerning the school.”After tonight’s football game, watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central…
President Obama last night addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala, where he touted the number of Hispanics he has appointed to high-level positions and his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, and stressed that the problems Hispanics face are the problems America as a whole faces. An excerpt from his speech (full remarks available here): Now,…
Hannah Giles — the 20-year-old FIU journalism student, minister’s daughter, and fake hooker who, along with an accomplice, exposed some ACORN offices’ habits of offering business advice to pimps and hoes — is garnering praise from Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and even Jon Stewart. Giles and a male accomplice, posing…
The group that gathered last night for the City of Miami mayoral debate between commissioners Tomas Regalado and Joe Sanchez made Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams look like upstanding examples of manners. Maybe they didn’t get the message they’re supposed to act civilly for the next week or…
Yesterday, from his Miami techno-hermit compound, Matt Drudge decided to run with “White Student Beaten on School Bus; Crowd Cheers,” as the top story on his website in all its race-baiting glory. The story about two high school students who happened to be black beating up another student who happened to…
Facing criticism that his mind has been elsewhere, Sen. Bill Nelson has finally given his talk about Chinese drywall, snakes, space, and Chinese snakes in space a rest to address the nationally pressing concern of health reform. The man does sit on the Senate Finance Committee after all, which yesterday released its…
The Florida Personhood Amendment we wrote about last week would not only outlaw abortion in the state, but also potentially ban birth control pills and other forms of contraception.The American Life League, one of the main groups behind the push (when it’s not busy printing tacky “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy” signs) says…
Rod Blagojevich criticizing anyone for making a shady appointment to a Senate seat is sort of like Kanye West chastising someone for awards-show misbehavior. But then again, egomaniacs aren’t really that self-aware. Blago went on Fox and Friends this morning to pimp his upcoming book and argued he wasn’t trying to…
Last November, pro-life groups put a ballot measure before Colorado voters asking them if “personhood” should be extended to the moment of conception. Even in a politically heated and polarized year, voters rejected the amendment by 73 percent. But that hasn’t stopped Personhood USA and the American Life League from…
Last night the President of the United States spoke before a special joint session of Congress to defend an issue that may very well come to define his first term in office. He also gave a stirring defense of good ol’ fashioned American Liberalsim with no apologies, something we haven’t…
Florida’s 33rd senator, George LeMieux, will be sworn in today at 2:45 amid concerns his Broward law firm helped secure visas for foreigners to work on a hotel and condo project in Bal Harbour, depriving Americans of jobs. As our brothers in blog-arms The Juice point out, a Capital News Service video confirms what’s…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and the county commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers as if they were life vests on a sinking ship. They’ve simultaneously tossed overboard funding to cultural efforts and other social programs.That hasn’t proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted…
Florida ranks 47th out of the 50 states in terms of influence and seniority in the U.S. Congress, according to an analysis by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A dismal ranking by any means, but even more so considering we’re the fourth most populace state. Our legislators have less swagger on the Hill…
Oliver Stone predicts he’ll have a hard time finding distribution for his latest documentary, South of the Border, a cinematic love letter to Venezuela’s controversial president, Hugo Chávez. “This is a bigger issue than Mr. Chávez and South America,” Stone tells Reuters. “Not only is there a revolution there, but…
