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Jim RosicaOctober 16, 2015

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Augustus Sol Invictus, the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida, participated in an “Ask Me Anything” session Thursday night on the Reddit news and social networking website. The 32-year-old Invictus recently made headlines when he told the Associated Press he was a pagan who once killed and drank a goat’s blood. But he is also a working […]

Martin DyckmanOctober 15, 2015

It can be perilous to predict the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case by the questions justices ask during the oral argument, but this once I’ll hazard a guess: Florida’s death-sentencing law is in deep trouble. The better question, in fact, is not whether Pensacola killer Timothy Hurst will win his appeal but how […]

Bob SparksOctober 15, 2015

The end of the process for redrawing Florida’s congressional districts is in sight. It may be one cycle late, but if the Florida Supreme Court rules favorably on the recommended final map, candidates and potential candidates can make informed decisions. Last week, Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis signed off on one of seven maps […]

Guest AuthorOctober 15, 2015

I hear John Thrasher is doing a good job as president of Florida State University. Says FSU trustee Allan Bense: “In general, I will tell you 2014 was a rough year. There were days when I had 50 or 60 emails in my inbox. And I will tell you, you know how many I get […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2015

The United Nations itself had not yet been officially established when its Food and Agriculture Organization was formed. The U.N. opened Oct. 24, 1945, eight days after the FAO, and not until 1948 did the international body ratified its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The way these events unfolded suggests that ahead of individual human […]

Julie DelegalOctober 14, 2015

Rights, even those guaranteed by the constitution, are never absolute. Free speech rights don’t protect us from committing libel or slander, for example. They don’t protect us from yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. But so far, no one is challenging the NRA for its abuse of the First Amendment: spreading misinformation about guns in […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2015

Many of Florida’s public officials must be enjoying the slow death of the state’s once powerful newspapers. In the 1990s, a skeptical reporter would be asking exasperating questions every time a politician or bureaucrat made a controversial decision. The painful shrinking of Florida’s papers continues, though. Last week Tribune Publishing offered another round of buyouts. […]

Melissa RossOctober 14, 2015

It’s a shocking portrait of the man who formed the modern-day CIA. In “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, The C.I.A. and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,” author David Talbot, the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller “Brothers,” makes perhaps the most compelling case yet that Allen Dulles was linked to JFK’s assassination Nov. […]

Mitch PerryOctober 14, 2015

Good morning from the Motel 6 on Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee. OK, let’s get right into discussing Tuesday night’s Democratic rumble in Las Vegas. Experience matters. Although it’s been more than seven years since she last engaged in a presidential debate, Hillary Clinton did battle it out with Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden and […]

Guest AuthorOctober 13, 2015

As the 21st century finds its rhythm, and the 2016 presidential contest begins to take up most of our public space, it seems clear to me that we have two political parties in the United States, but they are both thoroughly Hamiltonian. We have what might be called the “greater Hamiltonian Party” and the “lesser […]

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Augustus Sol Invictus takes his campaign to Reddit

Martin Dyckman: Why Florida’s death-sentencing law is likely in trouble

Bob Sparks: Even Florida’s nonpartisan congressional maps are deemed unfair

Chris Timmons: John Thrasher’s Florida State presidency: "Good job"

Terri Susan Fine: You need no special talent to help fight hunger

Julie Delegal: The NRA has gone all the way down the rabbit hole

Tom O’Hara: Floridians lose when struggling newspapers reduce staff

“The Devil’s Chessboard” draws CIA connection to JFK assassination

Mitch Perry Report for 10.14.15 – Hilliary Clinton says she’s a progressive who can win

Clay S. Jenkinson: Restoring the American republic, beginning in Tallahassee