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Guest AuthorNovember 7, 2016

I am proud of my service in the United States Air Force, and I know firsthand the honor it is to serve this great nation. I also know the complete trust we in the military must place in our commander in chief. Our nation’s armed forces serve at the call of duty, at the orders […]

Associated PressOctober 18, 2016

President Barack Obama on Tuesday tore into Donald Trump for sowing suspicion about the integrity of the U.S. election, telling the Republican presidential nominee to “stop whining” and focus on winning votes. Obama called Trump’s intensifying, pre-emptive warnings about voter fraud “unprecedented” in modern politics. The rhetoric is not based on any evidence, Obama said, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 29, 2016

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Patrick Murphy is being attacked for defending Hillary Clinton’s role in Benghazi in a new television ad now airing in Jacksonville, Panama City, and Pensacola. The ad features Mark “Oz” Geist, a retired Marine involved in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi that led to the deaths four Americans, including Chris Stevens, […]

Associated PressAugust 29, 2016

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy are campaigning as if Tuesday’s primary was already over and they won their parties’ nominations for U.S. Senate. And it may be for good reason. Rubio’s main challenger, Carlos Beruff, appeared to throw in the towel, essentially shutting down the campaign he’d sunk $8 million of […]

Jac VerSteegJuly 1, 2016

My eyeballs are still scorched from reading Tom Jackson’s column “No moving on from Benghazi horror.” I’m on the left and he’s on the right, but I love an opinion piece that pulls no punches. Jackson’s premise in the piece, which appeared in FloridaPolitics.com, is that, “The Obama administration failed at every step of the […]

Tom JacksonJune 28, 2016

And so, once more — perhaps for the last time — into the Benghazi breach. The House Select Committee on Benghazi released its findings on the debacle Tuesday, and it is sobering. Add the blistering sidebar by GOP Congressmen Mike Pompeo (Kansas) and Jim Jordan (Ohio) and you have the completest possible portrait of what […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

Marco Rubio is no longer running for president, but he’s still using some of the same lines of attack against Hillary Clinton as he resumes his run for Senate. Early Tuesday, House Republicans concluded their two-year investigation into the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya with an 800-page report that blames politically motivated bureaucratic delays for failing to […]

Martin DyckmanJune 26, 2016

Donald Trump has audacious proposals to wall off Mexico and bar Muslim immigrants, but he hasn’t said how he would stop people from sneaking around the barriers or overstaying visas. How might he manage that? Let’s surmise one way. He could be planning to implant every lawful resident with an identification chip like those the […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 14, 2016

Monday evening, Florida’s CFO Jeff Atwater addressed the Greater Arlington Republican Club in Jacksonville, offering remarks that were intended to rally the troops while reminding GARC attendees of Republican first principles. “I’m from South Florida,” Atwater said, “and I’m used to sitting at the table with people who don’t get it.” In this case, “it” […]

Mary Jo MeloneMay 26, 2016

Like Donald Trump’s narcissism, the misogyny driving the vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton is bottomless. The best that can be said of the legions of her critics is that some, women among them, don’t know history. Worse yet, few who are puzzled by the vitriol directed at Clinton bother to see her through the lens […]

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Mike Hill: We must demand a commander in chief and Senate fit to serve

‘Stop whining,’ Barack Obama tells Donald Trump

NRA targets Patrick Murphy in new ad

Marco Rubio, Patrick Murphy look confident before Florida’s Senate primary

Jac VerSteeg: Boots on the ground lead to bodies on the ground

Tom Jackson: No moving on from Benghazi horror show

Marco Rubio attacks Hillary Clinton after reviewing GOP Benghazi report

Martin Dyckman: With ‘colossal liar’ Donald Trump, nightmares could become reality

Jeff Atwater talks conservatism in the age of Donald Trump

Mary Jo Melone: Hillary Clinton, without apology