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Guest AuthorSeptember 13, 2015

Watching Best of Enemies, the new movie about the series of debates Gore Vidal and William Buckley had at the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami and Democratic Convention in Chicago, is a lesson in parallelism. Despite their deep differences, the two were like “matter and antimatter,” or as my wife said, “two models wearing the […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 31, 2015

How don’t we love Donald Trump? Let us count the ways. He is arrogant, artful, audacious, autocratic, avaricious, biased, bigoted, blustering, bombastic, bossy, a braggart, calculating, capricious, chauvinistic, coarse, conceited, cocky, crude, cunning, contriving, cynical, dangerous, deceitful, dislikable, duplicitous, dogmatic, dictatorial, dissentious, domineering, egotistical, erratic, evasive, feckless, haughty, high-handed, hypocritical, imperious, inconsistent, inflammatory, insatiable, insidious, […]

Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2015

Let’s circle back to Jeb Bush’s National Urban League address from several weeks ago, because if a big, pointed word must be used, it is “symptomatic” of Republican racial complacency. (It’s best to exclude Ben Carson, because like all black Republicans from Allen West to Tim Scott, he momentarily forgets that he is black. Colorblindness […]

Guest AuthorAugust 24, 2015

“It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves and not for me. I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office seekers, but with you, is the question: Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this […]

Guest AuthorAugust 23, 2015

“It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves and not for me. I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office seekers, but with you, is the question: Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this […]

Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2015

Now that the silly season of presidential election politics has descended upon us, it’s time to prepare for the inevitable photographic onslaught of candidates shoving food into their pie holes. With close to 20 candidates in the race at this point – Rick Perry may be driving to Amscot for a payday loan as we […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 27, 2015

Every weekday morning, I have a tradition. I look into the soulful eyes of President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew as I decide what to have for breakfast. No, it’s not because I have a Nixon/Agnew fetish; that’s beside the point. It’s more because I like to eat breakfast on the cheap and convenient to Jacksonville’s […]

Mitch PerryJuly 10, 2015

Hillary Clinton is scheduled to give an address on Wall Street oversight on Monday, and Karl Nurse says it can’t come quick enough. The St. Petersburg City councilman attended a V.I.P. reception for Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook in Tampa last month. There, he said, he learned the Democratic candidate for president would be giving two […]

Julie DelegalJune 26, 2015

Let there be no doubt: The individual responsible for murdering a church pastor and eight parishioners in Charleston, S.C., is a white supremacist. Stating that fact does not politicize the horror, nor does it diminish our sense of mourning for the people who were lost. To the contrary, getting justice for the victims demands that […]

Guest AuthorJune 23, 2015

When billionaire Donald Trump entered the race for the 2016 Republican nomination for president, I, like many political junkies, initially met his announcement with great skepticism. Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post summed it up best: “His announcement was greeted with something between incredulity (Trump has flirted with running many times before) and amazement (Trump […]

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A.G. Gancarski: Gore Vidal, William Buckley play as “2 models in same dress” in new movie

Martin Dyckman: We’ve seen Donald Trump’s type before

Chris Timmons: The GOP needs a new Nixon plan for blacks

Ed H. Moore: It’s time to recover our promise as a great nation

Ed H. Moore: It’s time to recover our promise as a great nation

Jeff Houck’s Power Lunch: Iconic eating on the presidential campaign trail

Chamblin’s Uptown remains a Jacksonville original

Karl Nurse says Hillary Clinton must respond to Bernie Sanders on financial reform

Julie Delegal: Harvest of Thorns: We won’t be rid of racism until elected leaders stop using it

Steven Kurlander: The Donald's Trump card deals new populist dynamism in election 2016