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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 […]

Guest AuthorDecember 2, 2014

And now the corruption begins. There’s no other honest word for it. For average Floridians, the November election is over, whether they voted or not. Most didn’t bother. But for those major contributors who bought it, it’s payback time. The political game is played between elections when the public isn’t looking. It’s all about the […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2014

After years of race riots in major cities, President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 established the Kerner Commission, shorthand for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. He wanted to know their causes and how to prevent them. Released in 1968, the report concluded, “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — […]

Guest AuthorNovember 18, 2014

“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” Those sweeping words of the First Amendment are the crown jewels of our Bill of Rights, the equivalent of “Let freedom ring,” the bedrock of our Republic. If Americans cherish anything, it is their constitutional protection to speak their minds. But however […]

Guest AuthorNovember 11, 2014

Almost everyone was waiting for their discredited heads to roll. And yet, the three most politically vulnerable governors in the United States were re-elected. For most of four years, Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s policies hurt teachers and public schools, the poor, the disabled, the undocumented — just about every group except business interests. His approval […]

Guest AuthorNovember 4, 2014

It’s 2016. Even before all of the just-cast votes have been officially tallied, pundits are predicting who will run for president — among them, Jeb Bush, of course. But, since Americans have the historical perspective of fruit flies, it’s time to take a walk down memory lane and remind ourselves that where there’s a Bush, […]

Guest AuthorOctober 28, 2014

During Nan Rich’s quixotic, primary quest to become Florida’s governor, she claimed to be the only real Democrat in the race, a lifelong liberal, ideologically pure. Instinctively, she always won at “Pin the tail on the donkey.” Relentlessly, she bashed her rival, Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist, as an untrustworthy, mercurial opportunist who was raining on her […]

Guest AuthorOctober 21, 2014

Answering questions is as unspeakable to Rick Scott as eating pork is to someone who keeps kosher. The governor treats talking with the press and public as trayf (Yiddish for tainted food), as though he would be putting himself at risk for the political equivalent of trichinosis. Ask him anything. And, as if unable to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2014

The United States is in the middle of a devastating epidemic of “Obsessive CEO Syndrome” (OCS). It’s a debilitating condition in which victims are deluded into thinking that the chosen people at the top of organization charts have the best minds, all the answers to all of our problems, and, should they choose to abandon the rarefied air of […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2014

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is the reincarnation of Richard Nixon. “Tricky Dick,” the 37th U.S. president, was a walking thesaurus of negatives: imperious, secretive, draconian, paranoid, duplicitous, underhanded, and insincere — for starters. The committee formed to re-elect him — and that got him into Watergate trouble that led to his resignation — aptly went […]

Tag: Stephen Goldstein

Stephen Goldstein: President Jeb planning more neocon wars

Stephen Goldstein: What will Florida GOP contributors expect for their millions?

Stephen Goldstein: 50 years later, Florida remains ‘separate and unequal’

Stephen Goldstein: Democrats must become better liars than Republicans

Stephen Goldstein: The Koch brothers are laughing at Americans

Stephen Goldstein: Bush will need voters with short memories to win presidency

Stephen Goldstein: Blame Nan Rich if Charlie Crist loses

Stephen Goldstein: Scott won’t answer questions and too many voters don’t care

Stephen Goldstein: Check the symptoms – you may have ‘Obsessive CEO Syndrome’

Stephen Goldstein: Florida’s Richard Nixon: “Tricky” Rick Scott