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Guest AuthorDecember 2, 2013

Thomas Knight, aka Asakari Abudullah Muhammad, is a poster boy for the death penalty. His case is also a classic study in what’s wrong with the death penalty machinery. By now you might know that once again Knight has cheated death. One of the longest-serving prisoners on Florida’s Death Row, Knight was supposed to die […]

Darryl PaulsonNovember 13, 2013

Charlie Crist has never had a political job he wanted to keep. He has served one term as state senator, one term as education commissioner, one term as attorney general and one term as governor. Not once did he seek re-election to any of those positions. “One and done” Charlie was always looking for his […]

Guest AuthorNovember 7, 2013

Does Florida even need a governor? I know there’s been a lot of hoopla around Charlie Crist getting in the race for his old job, but seriously, is the position relevant anymore? It seems to me that getting elected governor these days is like being knighted. It’s an honor for sure, but the job just […]

Martin DyckmanSeptember 16, 2013

The 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks passed last week, yet some potentially devastating answers remain concealed from the American people. To what extent was the government of Saudi Arabia involved, directly or indirectly, in the murders of nearly 3,000 Americans? Did it subsidize al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States under an extortionate deal with […]

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Martin Dyckman: It’s time to reveal Saudi government’s role in 9/11 attacks