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Guest AuthorSeptember 2, 2014

Post-primary punditry about low voter turnout in Florida (especially in Democrat-rich Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties) is as predictable and prolific as it is paltry. Adding up the numbers, analysts–I use the term loosely–have come to the unremarkable conclusion that Charlie Crist’s chances of defeating Rick Scott are in doubt. Henny Penny’s sky is […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2014

On New Year’s Eve 1949, a rickety Greek fishing boat deposited my mother and me on the shore of Haifa, Israel. With us were 400 other refugees, the floating debris of the Jewish people. I was 12, my mother 48 and Israel 7 months old. (In this story, numbers have an astounding symmetry.) Israel’s population […]

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 […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 9, 2013

When I was a student at St. Joseph school in downtown Lakeland during the Vietnam War, I was recruited routinely to serve as an altar boy for the funerals of local soldiers who had lost their lives in combat. I remember the solitude of the funeral Mass, praying that my three brothers who were serving […]

Tag: Syria

Stephen Goldstein: Voters aren’t apathetic; They’re sick of political lies

Rachel Patron: Hamas digs tunnels while Gazans above endure poverty

Cary McMullen: Proposed Syria strike provokes rare political unity

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross: No military action in Syria