Allen West has bulldozed himself so far into Crazy Town that the regular people gawking from outside the fence can barely even see him anymore. He’s back to calling the president “Barack Hussein Obama,” has once again ditched the business suit in favor of a leather vest, and now, in…
Yesterday we told you about the latest charges brought against Tarvess Taylor, a 26-year-old man from Miami Springs who police say mailed five letters containing a powdery substance to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the Broward County Courthouse last October. He’s set to be arraigned today.Available documents only include tidbits…
Just so you know, police just sent out a notice at 5 p.m. today that the Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT team is conducting a training exercise at the Sun Trust Bank at the intersection of West Hillsboro Boulevard and State Route 441 — the helicopter and heavily armed men are…
Republican Rep. Connie Mack IV’s Senate campaign has hit a bump in the road — a bump shaped like an electorate that doesn’t want to vote for him. He’s come up short in poll after poll, and papers in Florida and elsewhere have pointed it out. Well, one person is…
Update, 4/19: Got comment from Wasserman Schultz’s camp. Added to the story.Original post, 4/17:Between January and the end of March, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz donated $73,000 to Democratic campaigns across the country. It’s not surprising — she’s chair of the Democratic National Committee, and $25,000 of that cash…
In February, we brought you 26-year-old Scott Heide’s YouTube dating video, in which he spends three minutes rapping things like “We’ll go to Whole Foods and buy organic grapes” and “I’m not a jerk; I’m a real nice guy/I wear suits, button-ups, and nice ties.” The follow-up interview revealed that he’d…
If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if an old lady plowed a Camry into a supermarket, you won’t believe what YouTube has in store for you.The video after the jump was taken at a Palm Coast Publix store last Saturday. In it, you’ll see a bunch of…
Whenever anyone reports on Congressman Allen West saying something ridiculous, he likes to declare that it makes him “the number-one target of the Democrat Party of the United States of America” because they hate freedom, Abraham Lincoln, and people who tell the truth.But a Politico story yesterday revealed something quite different — not only…
A 26-year-old Miami Springs man is set to be arraigned Friday on charges that he sent five envelopes containing threatening letters and a powdery substance to the Broward Sheriff’s Office and the Broward Courthouse last October, according to newly released documents.Tarvess Taylor sent one powder-filled letter to the courthouse at…
iPhones, for all their glorious, touch-screeny goodness, are fragile little things — it hangs up on your mom if you hold it in your left hand, data speeds are spotty with some carriers, and the screen cracks easier than a jailhouse snitch with an upcoming parole hearing. But for all…
It sounds like South Florida from the very first paragraph.It’s a story from ABC News about a new medical procedure in which women, many of whom are preparing to squeeze into a wedding dress, get a feeding tube stuck up their noses and then walk around with it for ten…
A new poll of Florida voters was released yesterday with all kinds of juicy numbers about politicians on both the state and national level. The full report is included at the bottom, but there are more facts in it than one blog post could ever hold.The poll was conducted by…
Yesterday, we brought you the details of Allen West’s 2012 campaign contributions — how he’s pulled in more than $1.8 million between January and the end of March, with more than half of contributions from donors giving over $200 coming from outside the state.He has $3,334,632 left in his war…
Angelmi Gutierrez is a 20-year-old Coral Springs man who just can’t seem to stay on the right side of the law — he’s got a rap sheet that includes charges for speeding, running a stop sign, running a red light, battery, criminal mischief, multiple charges of burglary and theft, and,…
The Miami Marlins’ new shortstop is missed by his former team. Jose Reyes spent the first nine seasons of his career with the New York Mets, leading the National League in stolen bases three years in a row (2005-2007), hitting for 99 triples and winning the NL batting title last…
Everybody had a good, amused chuckle when the Florida Legislature finally passed that antibestiality law last year — “Oh, Florida,” everybody said, figuring the thing would get relegated to cheesy lists of weird laws, in between the one about washing your house on Tuesday afternoons and the one about eating…
Allen West has an interesting fundraising strategy — while it could be paraphrased as “I said something asinine please give me money,” he actually says, “I need you to stand with me against attacks from the liberals and the distortions of the corrupt liberal media. Everyone who stands with me in…
It’s amazing what a politician will say when he doesn’t think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who’s the subject of this week’s cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his potential presidency,…
Broward County announced last week that Craig Mallak is the new chief medical examiner and director of the Office of the Medical Examiner and Trauma Services. He’s got a long résumé that includes a stint as medical examiner of the U.S. Armed Forces, where he ended up being the guy…
The cats of Broward County are about to start churning out babies, and residents are being asked to help care for the incoming wave of orphaned newborn kittens.”What’s happening is that we’re getting into what we call ‘kitten season,’ which is the high time for cats to breed,” said spokeswoman…
Charges for DUI and driving with a suspended license have been filed against former WQAM-AM (560) sports radio host Sid Rosenberg, who was arrested April 5 after police say they found him crying and vomiting in the middle of the road.His arraignment has been scheduled for April 30 at 9 a.m., according…
Allen West has been getting a lot of bad press lately — news outlets across the country, including this one, latched onto his declaration that “there are 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party.”He’s since moved past that assertion and onto the (slightly)…
