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Daniel TilsonNovember 5, 2013

As middle class Floridians are repeatedly reminded in the months ahead about Charlie Crist’s history of shifting policy positions, it’s his vision of what constitutes genuine economic and tax fairness in Florida that deserves closest attention. While conservative-to-liberal conversions on issues like marriage equality, abortion and gun control have him inhabiting space on the political […]

Darryl PaulsonNovember 4, 2013

Democrats love Harry Truman, the president of the common man, and his “the buck stops here” philosophy. He took personal responsibility for what happened during his tenure. Fifty years later, Democrats have another president, Barack Obama, whose philosophy is apparently “I never saw the buck. It wasn’t until several days later, when I read about […]

Bob SparksNovember 3, 2013

The divide between our political parties is wider than at any time in memory. There is some palpable hatred out there. Within Florida government the speech and interaction between the parties is mostly civil. That is a credit to both parties. But in Washington, we witnessed the spectacle of the government shutdown, which briefly distracted […]

Guest AuthorOctober 23, 2013

On Friday (Oct. 25), Democrats from around the state will gather in Orlando for their annual conference. I expect there will be much discussion about Amanda Murphy’s recent win in State House District 36. I do not know if Murphy will be there, but if she is, she will likely be greeted as a rock […]

Guest AuthorOctober 16, 2013

President Barack Obama promised that his administration would be the most open and transparent in history. With the nation coming out of the super-secretive Bush years, the news media and watchdog groups welcomed the change. His Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, issued on Jan. 21, 2009, directed federal agencies to implement the principles of […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 10, 2013

Now that President Obama has rightfully rejected the “deal” offered by House Tea Partiers — a six-week debt ceiling extension in exchange for presidential “negotiation” (give-ins) to get them to reopen the government — the two-ton elephant in the national living room remains their unwillingness to admit the shutdown hand they’ve played has failed, and […]

Guest AuthorOctober 3, 2013

Our beautiful 237-year experiment in democracy has brought us to a difficult crossroad. Either we are going to continue to lurch from financial crisis to financial crisis or someone in Washington, D.C., is going to have to get over their childish temper tantrums. At this point in time I’m ready to declare a pox on […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 25, 2013

Sadly, Sept. 19 marked five years since TransCanada applied for permission from the U.S. government to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a privately funded project that would give American consumers a direct link to Canadian oil sands, the third largest oil reserves in the world. However, the Obama Administration, bowing to political pressure from anti-energy […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 23, 2013

Recently, a friend I have known since college sent me a link to a letter supposedly written to President Obama that was circulating on the Internet. It purportedly was written as a letter to the editor in a Mississippi newspaper. Normally I ignore such posts since the Internet is filled with “trolls” (people who post […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 12, 2013

Florida Rep. Neill Combee, R-Polk City, stirred up a small hornet’s nest last week with a Twitter post that asked the rhetorical question, “Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?” On first glance, this may appear to be yet another dive into the deep end of right-wing paranoia, but with the civil […]

Tag: President Obama

Daniel Tilson: What would Crist Florida Economy 2.0 look like?

Darryl Paulson: Obama is the ‘4 Pinocchio’ President

Bob Sparks: Add more ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ to the menu

Ben Kirby: Prospects for Florida Democrats look promising

Rick Outzen: President Obama’s veneer of openness

Daniel Tilson: Time to give Tea Party shutdown showboats a time-out

Barney Bishop: A pox on both political parties

Dave Mica: It’s time to get started on the oil pipeline from Canada

Gary Stein: Time to dismiss the stereotypes in health care debate

Cary McMullen: Proposed Syria strike provokes rare political unity