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Guest AuthorJanuary 13, 2016

During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama said we have a robust economy, yet we have a shrinking middle class and economic confidence is low. He said his policies in the Middle East are working well, yet in Syria alone we have thousands of killings and millions of people deserting […]

David SilverbergJanuary 13, 2016

No surprise, Florida’s congressional delegation split along party lines in its initial Twitter reaction to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Addressing a hostile Republican-led Congress and a country plunged in a tumultuous, at times angry presidential campaign, Obama used his final address to summon an affirmative vision of his administration and for […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 12, 2016

OK, let’s not pretend that anyone out there is really all that interested, much less excited, that Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address tonight. I would say that it’s an antiquated relic that the country has transcended, and in fact, last year’s SOTU was the least viewed since 2000. Having […]

Scott PowersJanuary 11, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders plans to include Florida A&M University on his campaign tour of historically black colleges and universities, which begins Thursday in South Carolina. Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, has not yet set a date for the FAMU stop. The university is among nine schools he plans to visit throughout the […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJanuary 11, 2016

Marco Rubio vowed to “restore the American Dream” and took a swing at the tax plans of his opponents — both Republican and Democrat — during a speech in Sarasota on Monday. “The purpose of my presidency, when it comes to economics, will be to restore the American Dream,” said Rubio during his stop at […]

Associated PressJanuary 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton jumped at a chance Friday to portray rival Sen. Bernie Sanders as being at odds with President Barack Obama on gun control after the president denounced legislation protecting gun-makers from lawsuits. Clinton’s campaign chairman, former Obama adviser John Podesta, called on Sanders to join Obama and Clinton by taking on the issue of […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 8, 2016

Finally, 2015 has passed. It was a memorable year in black America: Police brutality: From Michael Brown to Eric Garner to Sandra Bland to Tamir Race, the story of police brutality remained a constant in the news, although the story is more complex than Fox News or the Black Lives Matter movement would have us […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 7, 2016

Finally, 2015 has passed. It was a memorable year in black America: Police brutality: From Michael Brown to Eric Garner to Sandra Bland to Tamir Race, the story of police brutality remained a constant in the news, although the story is more complex than Fox News or the Black Lives Matter movement would have us […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2016

You can take Joe Biden out of the presidential campaign, but you can’t take the campaign out of Joe Biden. Three months after bowing out of the 2016 competition, the vice president has a few second thoughts about his decision. “I regret it every day,” Biden said Wednesday. Still, he said he made the right […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2016

It seems like only yesterday that skeptics of Barack Obama‘s birth in Hawaii rushed to the Supreme Court to try to block the son of an American mother and Kenyan father from taking office as president. The justices turned away those challenges as fast as they arrived at the courthouse door, much as lower courts […]

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Tim Bryce: Obama’s speech shows that he’s living in Fantasyland

Florida politicians react to President Obama’s final State of the Union

Mitch Perry Report for 1.12.16 — SOTU time, baby!

Bernie Sanders tour of historically black colleges to include FAMU

Marco Rubio tells Sarasota crowd he will “restore the American Dream”

Hillary Clinton portrays Bernie Sanders as at odds with Barack Obama on guns

Chris Timmons: It was a memorable year in black America

Chris Timmons: It was a memorable year in black America

Joe Biden on 2016 decision: “I regret it every day”

Ted Cruz’s birth in Canada unlikely to cloud run for president