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Guest AuthorFebruary 26, 2016

Marco Rubio poses as a national security expert. Perhaps among the Republican contenders, he’s the closest thing they’ve got. In which case, God help us all. A Washington Post story over the weekend indicates that Rubio’s interest in national security was just a pose from the beginning. As a rising star in the Florida House, […]

Jac VerSteegFebruary 25, 2016

Marco Rubio poses as a national security expert. Perhaps among the Republican contenders he’s the closest thing they’ve got. In which case, God help us all. A Washington Post story over the weekend indicates that Rubio’s interest in national security was just a pose from the beginning. As a rising star in the Florida House, […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2015

The United Nations itself had not yet been officially established when its Food and Agriculture Organization was formed. The U.N. opened Oct. 24, 1945, eight days after the FAO, and not until 1948 did the international body ratified its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The way these events unfolded suggests that ahead of individual human […]

Guest AuthorOctober 12, 2015

Mrs. Albina had just finished her math lecture. I was sitting two seats from the back, third row from the door to freedom. Fourth grade was no place to spend time doing easy math drills. After all, it was October and the weather in Carol City, a relatively new suburb in north Dade County, Florida, […]

Guest AuthorOctober 11, 2015

Mrs. Albina had just finished her math lecture. I was sitting two seats from the back, third row from the door to freedom. Fourth grade was no place to spend time doing easy math drills. After all, it was October and the weather in Carol City, a relatively new suburb in north Dade County, Florida, […]

Melissa RossOctober 6, 2015

One month, one city, two panels looking at the future of energy, with two very different tones. This October, Jacksonville will host the Florida Energy Summit. The event, sponsored by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the JAX Chamber, is billed as “convening energy leaders from across the state and around the nation to share ideas on […]

Associated PressSeptember 24, 2015

Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants Thursday, urging lawmakers to embrace “the stranger in our midst” as he became the first pontiff in history to address a joint meeting of the legislators. Referencing the migration crisis in Europe as well as the United States’ […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 10, 2015

Yesterday in Brussels, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union’s top executive, proposed a plan to move approximately 160,000 refugees coming from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations in the Middle East and Africa in response to other countries to deal with the crisis gripping Europe. Although often called “Europe’s problem,” there is increasing discussion about what the U.S. could, and […]

Melissa RossSeptember 3, 2015

Amidst all the celebration and revelry of St. Augustine’s 450th commemorations this week, some are planning to protest the way the nation’s oldest city was founded. A coalition of Native American groups is calling for a boycott of the 450th, saying it “shamefully celebrates and honors the Doctrine of Discovery and Spain’s crimes against humanity.” The […]

Guest AuthorJuly 29, 2015

In December 2013, at the United Nations’ 68th General Assembly meeting, the assembled countries could not, as usual, solve the problems of world conflicts, human slavery, wide-spread famine and the Israeli-Palestinian question. So, it decided to do something it could: It declared that 2015 would be the International Year of Light. I’m quite sure that […]

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Jac VerSteeg: Marco Rubio is a national security shirker

Jac VerSteeg: Marco Rubio is a national security shirker

Terri Susan Fine: You need no special talent to help fight hunger

Ed Moore: The October that changed us all

Ed Moore: The October that changed us all

Jax climate and energy panels: a tale of two conferences

Pope Francis addresses religion, Islamic extremists, immigration in historic speech

Mitch Perry Report for 9.10.15 – Few presidential candidates offering specifics on refugee crisis

Native Americans protest St. Augustine’s 450th bash

Michael Bass: A toast to the International Year of Light