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Julie DelegalDecember 30, 2014

Chutzpah. That’s what Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has. Not for accepting lavish vacations from the lobbyists who fund the Republican Attorneys General Association. No, that’s a whole ’nother column. AG Bondi has the chutzpah to pretend, for the sake of politics, that Florida’s Clerks of Court are exempt from obeying the United States Constitution. U.S. […]

Guest AuthorNovember 17, 2014

A funny thing happened in Jan 2013. A Dr. Jonathan Gruber of MIT (now an “unperson” at the White House and Democrats who knew him so well), appeared via Skype at the Florida Senate Select Committee on Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act committee. I wrote at the time in a Florida Voices column, […]

Guest AuthorAugust 28, 2014

What did Jennifer Carroll think would happen after millionaire candidate Rick Scott plucked her out of obscurity to run for lieutenant governor? Readers will hope to get some of those answers to that four-year-old question from Carroll, who is back on the scene doing interviews in anticipation of the publication of her autobiography, When You […]

Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2014

When you vote in Florida’s 2014 primary election on August 26 (or vote early or by absentee ballot), ask why more than 2.9 million Florida voters who are registered “no party affiliation” (NPA) or are affiliated with a minor political party can’t vote. They can’t vote because Florida’s primary election is closed, meaning it is […]

Guest AuthorJune 10, 2014

The jury is still out on the Bowe Bergdahl case but the verdict is in. Bergdahl is a traitor. The five Talibani prisoners we swapped for him are the most dangerous people on the planet and we’ll pay the price on the battle field. The Obama administration pulled a fast one by keeping Congress in […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 16, 2014

I’m going to be upfront with you. In case you have not been religiously reading my columns for the last few years, I’m a stout, fair, common-sense political man. I’m a fiscal conservative, moderate on family values and immigration, and liberal (that dirty word) on some social issues like women’s rights, GLBT equality, etc. So […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 8, 2014

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of The United States, must be spinning in his grave and cursing up a storm this week. You see, to mark the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s landmark ‘War On Poverty’, congressional conservatives like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are taking turns trying to discredit it. First came […]

Darryl PaulsonOctober 20, 2013

The Democratic Party has found a new political strategist to guide its future. His name is Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas and the developer of the GOP strategy to link increasing the debt ceiling to eliminating the money for Obamacare. Cruz’s strategy has resulted in the Republican Party receiving a 24 percent favorable […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 13, 2013

Given how the Tea Party’s long-planned sabotage of the U.S. government has gone here in 2013, the time is ripe for the remains of what was once a proud and patriotic Republican Party to disown its bastard child once and for all. Doomed never to be fully grown or sentient, this has always been more […]

Darryl PaulsonSeptember 30, 2013

Second of two parts. Republicans won control of the Florida Senate in 1994, the House in 1996 and the governor’s office in 1998, making Florida the first southern state to have complete Republican control over the legislative and executive branch. Republicans have maintained their control for two decades even though Democrats have an advantage in […]

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Julie Delegal: No ban on Pam Bondi’s chutzpah

Henry Kelley: Liberals were lied to about the benefits of Obamacare

Andrew Skerritt: What did Jennifer Carroll expect after Scott chose her as running mate?

Ray Hudkins: Ask me why I can’t vote in Florida’s 2014 primary election

Doug Clifton: Bergdahl case: Another GOP-inflated controversy to discredit Obama

Steve Kurlander: Crossing the bridge to moderation: The GOP, and some dinosaurs, need Christie to survive Bridgegate

Daniel Tilson: The GOP’s impoverished anti-poverty platform

Darryl Paulson: The Cruzifiction of the Republican Party

Daniel Tilson: GOP’s bastard child needs a new party to crash

Darryl Paulson: The Changing Partisan Coalition in Florida: The Republicans