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Mitch PerryFebruary 12, 2016

While watching the first hour of Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, I started thinking that Marco Rubio has gotten a bit of a bum rap. For months (maybe longer), political reporters have complained that Rubio has liberally inserted his standard stump speech into his answers to questions on the campaign trail. That meme hit Def Com […]

Associated PressFebruary 11, 2016

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Grudge match. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders get back in the debate ring Thursday night with an increasingly bitter family score to settle. The debate comes just 48 hours after Sanders’ victory over Clinton in the New Hampshire primary by 22 percentage points, a jagged pill made more so because she lost […]

Mitch PerryDecember 16, 2015

Florida Congressman Alan Grayson wants Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia off an affirmative action case that the Court will rule on next year – and has penned a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts telling him that. Scalia has come under fire for a comment he made last week during oral arguments in a case about […]

Mitch PerryOctober 8, 2015

North Palm Beach County-based attorney Pam Keith is having a difficult time breaking through in her long-shot candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, with the political media focused on the almost daily back and forth exchanges between Alan Grayson and Patrick Murphy. She’s frustrated that she’s not getting help from the Congressional Black […]

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Alan Grayson calls for Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from affirmative action case

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