Florida’s law banning ex-felons from voting was written during the Jim Crow era to prevent black people from going to the polls. In February, federal Judge Mark Walker finally threw that racist law out after a group of ex-felons sued, but the judge left the door open for Scott’s office…
When Fidel Castro died in 2016, thousands of Cuban immigrants and their descendants paraded through Miami’s streets waving the Cuban flag. When Donald Trump himself came to speak to a group of Bay of Pigs veterans who’d rebelled against Castro, the Brigade 2506 vets draped a Cuban flag behind the…
Miami Beach is famous for debauchery, not debate. But Saturday morning, more than 3,000 people showed up to protest Florida’s lousy gun laws and the watered down measure that was recently approved by the state legislature. Rapper Flo Rida addressed the crowd. So did singer Emily Estefan, Miami Beach Mayor…
The March for Our Lives today might go down as the largest single-day gun-control and gun-safety march in American history. Thanks to the efforts of a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, 834 marches and rallies are happening today, and Americans from across the nation have traveled to Washington, D.C….
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has bombed the entire nation to pieces, starved its citizens via a blockade, caused a deadly cholera outbreak, and allegedly attacked innocent people by using illegal chemical weapons such as white phosphorus. The United Nations has repeatedly said the attacks amount to crimes against humanity.
Yesterday Donna Shalala’s campaign told Politico that the congressional candidate’s “name is synonymous with the Democratic Party.” But her record of political donations sure isn’t. Politico’s Marc Caputo revealed that Shalala, the Clinton ally and former University of Miami president now running as a self-proclaimed “progressive”…
Crafting propaganda programs for political campaigns sure is lucrative. Cambridge Analytica, the British-American “internet messaging” outlet caught on hidden-camera footage this week bragging about blackmailing candidates, bribing people, and coordinating with the Trump campaign, seems to have tendrils snaking all over the world, from the U.K. Brexit campaign all the way to Kenya’s last major election in 2017.
To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That’s because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.
At 10 a.m. today, thousands of South Florida students will set down their books and walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes. Their message is simple: Ban the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that helped Nikolas Cruz murder 17 kids and teachers in Parkland last month.
After Allen West wrapped up two years of representing Broward County in Washington by disparaging Muslim people and proposing terrible laws, he set up a massive right-wing clickbait empire that flooded Facebook with articles designed to gin up fear among terrified conservatives. One of those pieces has now landed the ex-congressman in federal court.
Florida charges way too many people with felony theft for a simple reason: Under state law, anytime someone steals something worth at least $300, it qualifies as “grand theft.” That threshold is among the lowest in America. Florida has not raised that amount since 1986 despite the fact that the U.S. dollar has undergone inflation in those 32 years and other states have raised their limits to as much as $2,500 to qualify as a felony.
To understand YouTube star Jake Paul, look no further than the video “Failed Icy Hot Bath Challenge,” which has been viewed more than 19 million times. In the clip, Paul fills a bathtub with Icy Hot ointment, pulls on swim trunks, lowers himself into the vat of ooze, and screams. It turns out you are definitely not supposed to bathe in Icy Hot…
Here’s a sentence that perfectly explains the state of Democratic politics in 2018: Former Clinton Foundation chief Donna Shalala, who helped lead a major homebuilder during the 2008 housing crash and also made $5 million after sitting on the board of a massive, for-profit health insurance company, is poised to steamroll a crowded field of Democratic competitors in a race for the U.S. House.
The U.S. Senate seems close to rolling back many of the banking protections adopted after the 2008 financial crisis. A bill derisively nicknamed the “Bank Lobbyist Act” would roll back consumer-protection and monitoring rules for some of the biggest banks in America and even make it easier for banks to hide racist mortgage-lending discrimination.
In National Rifle Association-dominated Florida, the extremely modest gun-control measures Florida’s legislators just passed apparently count as revolutionary. The state Legislature recently voted to send a bill to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk that raises the minimum gun-buying age from 18 to 21 and institutes a three-day waiting period for gun purchases. The bill, HB 7026…
Asking why this country makes it extremely easy for deranged teens to by military-style rifles clearly doesn’t persuade politicians to enact basic gun control laws after yet another mass killing. Florida lawmakers, in particular, aren’t really moved by appeals to their hearts, morals, or consciences, and it’s debatable whether some or…
Stormy Daniels’ attorney made the rounds on morning talk shows today to demolish any doubt about whether President Trump slept with the porn star while he was married to Melania. “Did she have a sexual relationship with the president?” a Today show host asked Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti. “Yes,” he replied.
Every public school teacher in West Virginia is on strike. This fact has, rightfully, brought cheers from a certain sector of the progressive left. But some of the nation’s more center-leaning pundits have found odd ways to scold the demonstrators. MSNBC host and full-time Twitter troll Joy Ann Reid opined that the striking workers apparently deserve their situation for not voting enough Democrats into office.
Florida’s Senate is backing off its ludicrous post-Parkland massacre plan of arming school teachers, so your child might end up getting accidentally shot by a math teacher after all. But a librarian, school nurse, or guidance counselor might still accidentally wind up pulling a gun on your children. During a debate…
The absolute worst thing you can ask Florida’s current cadre of politicians to do is solve a problem. Tallahassee is, by design, filled with barely literate Cro-Magnons who basically just put their name on whatever bill a lobbyist places between them and a free sandwich. Floridians saw the worst of…
Go back and watch the CNN town hall on the Parkland massacre — you know, the one where Marco Rubio was repeatedly owned so hard that he could barely stutter out his canned lines — and the survivors and victims’ families repeatedly make three demands of the senator: Reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons, ban high-capacity magazines, and stop taking money from the Nation Rifle Association.
After Parkland massacre survivors roasted Sen. Marco Rubio like a pig in a caja china at CNN’s nationally televised town hall, he took to Twitter to complain that their demands for an outright ban on the military-style assault weapons that helped slaughter 17 people at the school were “well outside the mainstream.”
