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Guest AuthorJune 23, 2015

When billionaire Donald Trump entered the race for the 2016 Republican nomination for president, I, like many political junkies, initially met his announcement with great skepticism. Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post summed it up best: “His announcement was greeted with something between incredulity (Trump has flirted with running many times before) and amazement (Trump […]

Guest AuthorJune 23, 2015

This year in Tallahassee, there has been no shortage of opinions on how to divide the dollars the Florida Legislature is constitutionally required to spend on natural resources through Amendment 1. Throughout the debate, some have tried to hold our lawmakers to an arbitrary standard, arguing for tens of millions of dollars to be spent […]

Guest AuthorJune 22, 2015

This year in Tallahassee, there has been no shortage of opinions on how to divide the dollars the Florida Legislature is constitutionally required to spend on natural resources through Amendment 1. Throughout the debate, some have tried to hold our lawmakers to an arbitrary standard, arguing for tens of millions of dollars to be spent […]

Guest AuthorJune 21, 2015

In our republic, the past six months has been enough to make all of us wonder whether there’s anything we can do to unify and lift us up as one nation. Almost every day another story illustrates how divided we are. For those old enough to remember, 9/11 brought Americans together much like World War […]

Guest AuthorJune 21, 2015

The horrible news about another mad person shooting innocent people, this time in the supposed sanctity of a church, shakes one to the core and forces us to think through our own daily travels and interactions. Sit in church next Sunday and look at the hundreds assembled. Has it ever entered your mind that one […]

Guest AuthorJune 18, 2015

Marco Rubio must be smiling. The baby-faced U.S. senator and presidential hopeful is having the best two weeks of his life. Not only did he get needlessly razed by the arch-liberal New York Times in two attack pieces, he’s also receiving the cold shoulder by everybody’s who’s somebody in Florida’s Republican establishment. According to CNN, […]

Guest AuthorJune 17, 2015

It’s incredibly ironic to me that the University of Central Florida was started in 1963 near the nation’s spaceport to help support the exploration of the universe, and that now we find ourselves in a position as the nation’s second-largest university to exert a lot of influence on our own little piece of that universe. […]

Guest AuthorJune 16, 2015

Let’s list the reasons why the Florida A&M University board of trustees is a total farce. No, it’s too much labor. Better to say the infestation of egos has made that board the laughingstock of state university boards of trustees. Or should. Chairman Rufus Montgomery again has found a way to interject his sexist machismo […]

Guest AuthorJune 15, 2015

Let’s list the reasons why the Florida A&M University board of trustees’ is a total farce. No, it’s too much labor. Better to say the infestation of egos has made that board the laughingstock of state university boards of trustees. Or should. Chairman Rufus Montgomery again has found a way to interject his sexist machismo […]

Guest AuthorJune 15, 2015

One of the great advantages of the universe as well as one of its biggest problems is that everything is connected to something. From the forces that act on the tiniest subatomic particle to the most massive of planets, nothing works apart from everything. Nothing exists entirely within a vacuum, completely unaffected by anything around […]

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