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Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2015

Being the Secretary of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority doesn’t come with many frills. The main job of this particular position is that he or she will preside over all board meeting in the absence of both the chair and vice chair. In other words, it’s heavily symbolic. But the question of who was […]

Adam WeinsteinDecember 11, 2014

Ban them all. We should never again allow a livelihood in media or government or think-tanking for any politician, any general, any pundit who ever argued that the United States of America needs to torture captives in order to keep its citizenry safe. Thanks to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture released this […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 11, 2014

It did not come as news this week that the CIA had tortured terrorism suspects. Americans already knew that. So did our enemies. The U.S. Senate select committee’s controversial report accomplished much more, however, than to simply provide the brutal, degrading, horrifying details. Equally disturbing, if not more so, was the conclusion that agency officials […]

Guest AuthorDecember 9, 2014

Are you up for more war – a really, really lot of it? More invasions of sovereign nations like Iraq? More “Mission Accomplished” banners? More Americans maimed and killed, for what, in places like Afghanistan? More trillions spent to protect Halliburton’s bottom line? It’s A-OK by Jeb Bush. Long before his brother was conned into […]

Martin DyckmanJuly 17, 2014

Dick Cheney slithered out from under a rock the other day to boast of the Iraq war he did so much to cause. “I believed in it then. I look back on it now — It was absolutely the right thing to do,” he said in an appearance at Washington. He said this despite the […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 12, 2014

So there stands the big guy. Smartly tailored suit, hair with just the right errant wisps. Emotive facial twitches and a stand-up guy winsomeness. Could easily have been the former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich — now serving time for corruption — a couple years ago as he pleaded his case on the national stage. Surely […]

Peter SchorschDecember 1, 2013

It’s pretty clear by now that no elected Republican, other than perhaps the overly eager state Rep. Doug Holder, wants to be Gov. Rick Scott’s next lieutenant governor. The rumor du jour currently circulating along Tallahassee’s Adams Street is that Chief of Staff Adam Hollingsworth wants it that way. Last week, Seminole County Sheriff Don […]

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HART board member Kathleen Shanahan makes her presence felt

Adam Weinstein: Don’t give a forum to defenders of torture

Martin Dyckman: Listen to Sen. John McCain, who speaks with great authority on torture

Stephen Goldstein: President Jeb planning more neocon wars

Martin Dyckman: Still no accounting for Dick Cheney’s war

Linda Cunningham: It helps to be a psychopath to succeed in politics

Peter Schorsch: Will Hollingsworth pull a LeMieux?