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Melissa RossMay 3, 2016

A representative from the world’s largest Muslim-majority country will appear in Jacksonville this week on the University of North Florida campus to discuss religious extremism, international terrorism, ISIS, and more. Ardian Wicaksono, the counselor for political affairs at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Washington D.C., will be the featured speaker at the […]

Associated PressNovember 22, 2015

Ted Cruz is among the most hated men in Washington, reviled by leaders of both parties as an ideological hard-liner loyal only to the far-right of the conservative movement. But racing down an Iowa highway on a snowy weekend morning, a solemn Cruz suggested some of his Republican rivals for president have amped up their […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 16, 2015

Remember “freedom fries?” That was how some Americans expressed their spite toward France when that nation, with vastly more experience than ours in the Middle East, wisely declined the opportunity to participate in George W. Bush‘s ego-driven war on Iraq. There was a congresswoman from Florida who called for exhuming our military graves and bringing […]

Martin DyckmanNovember 15, 2015

Remember “freedom fries?” That was how some Americans expressed their spite toward France when that nation, with vastly more experience than ours in the Middle East, wisely declined the opportunity to participate in George W. Bush’s ego-driven war on Iraq. There was a congresswoman from Florida who called for exhuming our military graves and bringing […]

Diane RobertsOctober 1, 2015

John Keats called autumn the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.” Which is true. But autumn is also the season when conservatives seem to ramp up the crazy. Maybe college football gets them so riled up they can’t handle reality. Or maybe it’s the semi-annual almost-not-quite-government-shutdown. That certainly impels U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz into a […]

Associated PressSeptember 22, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says “P.C. culture” is to blame for the fallout over his statement against electing a Muslim president. Carson tells reporters in Ohio on Tuesday that his view is that anyone wanting to be president must embrace the Constitution and American principles. He says anyone who does can be president. Carson […]

Melissa RossApril 14, 2015

Former South Florida Congressman and Fox News contributor Allen West is sounding the alarm about Muslim immigrants, saying the U.S. is absorbing about 100,000 eannually and that the State Department “has a ‘secret’ list of 190 cities ‘selected’ for refugee settlement.” The claims appear on West’s website in a piece written by Editor-in-Chief Michele Hickford. Writes Hickford, “Between […]

Guest AuthorOctober 1, 2014

America the Beautiful. The words punch the elevator button in our memory, and trolley up meanings and classroom images from our innocent years in fourth grade. For the spacious skies of Montana. Amber waves of grain, swirling and roiling across an ocean of Kansas wheat fields. Purple mountain majesties reigning over Colorado. But you really […]

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Interfaith discussion of religion and extremism set for UNF this week

Ted Cruz seeks to cast himself as the electable conservative

Martin Dyckman: The road to Middle East stability isn’t through war

Martin Dyckman: The road to Middle East stability isn’t through war

Diane Roberts: The season when conservatives ramp up the crazy

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson blames “PC culture”

Allen West: “Secret” list of cities for Muslim immigrants

Rick Brunson: One small candle of truth dispels a lot of darkness