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Guest AuthorJune 17, 2014

People are more powerful than all of Sheldon Adelson’s and the Koch Brothers’ money combined. Billionaires may spend gazillions trying to influence public opinion, too often resorting to half-truths and outright lies or funding surrogates that do their bidding. But, in the end, only people, not dollars, can vote. If enough average voters discover how […]

Guest AuthorJune 8, 2014

Must democracy be a scam? Today, the Florida Constitution has all the moral weight of a dry-cleaning ticket. That’s not the way that venerable document is usually perceived or how it’s supposed to be perceived. Yet, to be honest, that’s just the way it is — or how it has devolved. Politicians invoke the Constitution […]

Guest AuthorJune 3, 2014

Republicans have just discovered poverty and income inequality — a remarkable revelation, considering they have caused so much of it. The Tea Party GOP has declared Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” a failure. And with the 2014 elections looming, following the advice of their pollsters and word-testers, Republicans are trying to remake themselves as sympathetic […]

Guest AuthorJune 1, 2014

Take your blinders off: This is why the Koch Brothers and radical-right groups will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2014 midterm elections, why Gov. Rick Scott wants to raise $100 million to get re-elected — and how you can defeat them. If the Tea Party-GOP gains control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2014

Who does Jeb Bush think he’s “bushitting”? The extremist former governor of Florida and (for the moment leading) GOP presidential candidate is now parading as the self-proclaimed voice of moderation — and the sycophantish press is letting him get away with it. Floridians know the real Jeb. This entry below from my just-published Dictionary of […]

Guest AuthorMay 18, 2014

Ralph Waldo Emerson was contemptuous of “foolish consistency,” calling it “the hobgoblin of little minds.” Oh Waldo, if you could see us now! By his eloquent standard, worse than consistent fools, Americans have devolved into intellectual Lilliputians. It wasn’t ever thus. Some of our greatest presidents have been “wisely inconsistent,” sanely changing their minds in […]

Guest AuthorMay 15, 2014

What do Preparation H and Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio have in common? Nothing! But if he thought he could turn curing hemorrhoids to his political advantage, he’d claim to have come up with a plan faster than you could say, “Cuba sí, Castro no!” Laughably uninformed, he’s nonetheless convinced himself and (what’s left of) […]

Guest AuthorMay 7, 2014

Thanks to Jeb Bush, Florida has turned into the Wild West of education speculation: charter schools, vouchers, virtual schools, you name it — as long as it promises “profit over pupils in the name of reform.” It’s no surprise to noted education reformer Diane Ravitch, who reports “the charter industry has friends at the top […]

Guest AuthorMay 4, 2014

Here are two simple questions. The right answers will save the state of Florida; the wrong answers — I don’t want to think of them or their disastrous consequences. As things stand, which way things will go is a toss-up, which should give people who see beyond their noses heartburn. First, are Floridians, especially voters, […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2014

A monkey should easily be able to drum Gov. Rick Scott out of office in November — unless it’s a Democrat. The donkey party is in danger of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. They have a clear, fusion candidate in frontrunner Charlie Crist. And yet, instead of unifying behind him, some Democrats, even […]

Tag: Stephen Goldstein

Stephen Goldstein: The People’s Guide to defeating the Koch Brothers

Stephen Goldstein: Florida elected officials trash constitutional amendments

Stephen Goldstein: Republicans ‘discover’ how to end the poverty they created

Stephen Goldstein: Will the Koch Brothers own Florida in November?

Stephen Goldstein: Jeb Bush: Doomed to act out a Greek tragedy

Stephen Goldstein: Charlie Crist on Cuba: Facing facts, not flip-flopping

Stephen L. Goldstein: Marco Rubio has a cure for hemorrhoids and all of America’s ills

Stephen Goldstein: “Education Emperor” Jeb Bush is not wearing any clothes

Stephen Goldstein: Who’s dumber–Floridians or Rick Scott and the Legislature?

Stephen Goldstein: Nan Rich should drop out of the governor’s race