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Diane RobertsNovember 16, 2015

For reasons that do us no credit, Americans find it easy to insult the French. Perhaps we hate their freedoms – their freedom to live for something other than money, their freedom to enjoy food and sex minus 400 years of Protestant guilt. We call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys;” we sneer at John Kerry […]

Mitch PerryNovember 16, 2015

The rhetoric coming from the two-day cavalcade of Republican presidential candidates that took place in Orlando this past weekend changed halfway through due to the Paris terrorist attacks, but not as much as you might think. That’s because for many of the candidates, criticizing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton‘s foreign policy achievements/objectives has been the stock […]

Diane RobertsNovember 15, 2015

For reasons that do us no credit, Americans find it easy to insult the French. Perhaps we hate their freedoms – their freedom to live for something other than money, their freedom to enjoy food and sex minus 400 years of Protestant guilt. We call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys;” we sneer at John Kerry […]

Associated PressNovember 15, 2015

For most presidential candidates, a compelling personal history is an essential item in the campaign tool kit. Think Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign statements about fighting for women. Marco Rubio and his biography of the immigrant family that made good. Carly Fiorina and her “secretary to CEO” career path. Ben Carson and his up-by-the-bootstraps […]

Peter SchorschNovember 14, 2015

The hundreds of activist Republicans attending the Florida GOP’s Sunshine Summit are waking up to a different world than the one they went to sleep in last night. A series of attacks targeting young concertgoers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike […]

Associated PressNovember 14, 2015

It’s no longer a safe assumption that one of Florida’s two most popular Republicans will carry the presidential primary in their home state, as most of the GOP candidates turned their attention Friday to the state’s winner-take-all primary. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush no longer lead the polls in Florida, where Republicans […]

Jim RosicaNovember 13, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told reporters if he had been president during the Paris terror attacks he’d offer support and seek a coalition to counter the Islamic State. He spoke after an appearance at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando Friday. But he said currently there’s no leadership in America to give our allies confidence we’d […]

Mitch PerryNovember 13, 2015

Coming off perhaps his most controversial speech yet in his run for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump delivered a relatively tame address in Orlando late Friday afternoon that addressed many of the major themes that have put him atop the polls. He began by reciting his poll numbers, listing a new Reuters poll that had […]

Jim RosicaNovember 13, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson reminded a Sunshine Summit crowd that he’s a relatively new Florida resident. Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, said he decided to move in 2013 from “the People’s Republic of Maryland,” seeking the Sunshine State’s lower tax climate. Carson then told a homespun tale about his Detroit upbringing and his mother, […]

Mitch PerryNovember 13, 2015

Al Cardenas is disturbed about what’s going on with the Republican Party in 2015. A former Republican Party of Florida chairman for two terms and head of the Washington-based American Conservative Union from 2011 to 2014, he’s backing Jeb Bush this cycle, but also maintains ties with Marco Rubio. Cardenas spoke at the RPOF’s Sunshine […]

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Joel Rudman with wife Sophie. Photo via Rudman.

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