A quick history refresher: After President Abraham Lincoln freed America’s slaves during the Civil War, white Southerners spent a great deal of time devising ingenious and evil ways of preventing black people from voting. Those restrictions morphed into the “Jim Crow” laws — among them were poll taxes, which forced…
According to Human Rights Watch, the Saudi attack on Yemen has sparked the single-worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now. Children are starving to death, cities lay in ruins, and a horrible cholera outbreak is ravaging the poverty-stricken nation. Innocent people live in constant fear they will be vaporized by…
The Miami Herald this morning broke a doozy of a story: Li “Cindy” Yang, the woman who founded the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida — where Patriots owner Robert Kraft got caught allegedly paying for sex from trafficked women — watched the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl with Donald Trump.
In 2017, Florida lawmakers bizarrely spent a bunch of time passing a bill forcing the state to display the phrase “In God We Trust” in public schools. As it turns out, this was just the beginning of a pro-Christian legislative push in Florida: State lawmakers — namely Jacksonville State Rep. Kim…
Ex-Broward Sheriff Scott Israel is not going gently into that good night. After being booted from office due to BSO’s disastrous response to the shooting in Parkland and his own poor conduct in its aftermath, Israel has been showing up at condo meetings and Democratic clubs on a regular basis…
One of the most pressing issues for the pro-Trump wing of the internet is that it’s getting increasingly difficult to be racist and misinformed online nowadays. Since 2016, the world’s major social networking sites — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. — have cracked down on hate speech, racism, propaganda, and conspiracy theories…
Jose Oliva is the first Florida House of Representatives speaker from Miami since Marco Rubio. Tomorrow, as he gavels in the state’s legislative session, the 46-year-old Hialeah Republican faces some of the thorniest issues in state history: pot, guns in school, and felon voting rights, to name a…
In a stunning congressional hearing, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified the president lied under oath in a civil case involving the doomed Trump Tower and International Hotel project on Fort Lauderdale Beach. “Isn’t it true that President Trump misled at best or, at worst, lied under oath [in a Fort Lauderdale case deposition]?”…
Last week, notorious right-wing provocateur and misinformation artist Roger Stone sat in a Washington, D.C. courtroom and stated that a team of Florida-based “volunteers” runs his social-media accounts, handles his cell-phone, and “revolves” in and out of his home. Stone listed three well known members of the Proud Boys extremist…
Throughout Marco Rubio’s push to attack Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the Florida senator’s defenders have claimed it would be nothing like the military disasters of the past. But Rubio yesterday seriously undermined that argument — by comparing this new conflict to the ’80s Cold War and catastrophic 2011 invasion of Libya.
Roger Stone today is sitting in a D.C. federal court begging a judge not to crack down on him for being, well, Roger Stone. The Fort Lauderdale resident was arrested last month as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russian hackers.
As Roger Stone heads to court today to defend an apparent threat he aimed at the judge in his case, it’s a good time to look at his disturbing history of making similar threats of violence, domestic terrorism, and even civil war. Stone, the Fort Lauderdale resident arrested in an FBI raid last month on charges related to Robert Mueller’s investigation…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said virtually nothing about Matt Gaetz in public. But, given the life experience and political beliefs of the Democratic U.S. representative from New York, she likely finds her Florida Republican colleague cretinous. She’s a former bartender who skyrocketed to fame by making a moral and pragmatic case…
It’s not clear whether former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020. But it is apparent that keeping the public guessing is extremely lucrative — as it turns out, he personally pocketed a $150,000 speaking fee for a December trip to the Broward Center,…
The Florida Democrats are constantly in a shambles — but they’re even more of a mess than usual lately. Left-leaning voices within the party are furious at leader Terrie Rizzo and second-in-command Juan Peñalosa since Republicans flattened the Dems in statewide races during the 2018 midterm elections. After the losses, critics noted that…
President Donald Trump has effectively deputized Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to lead the administration’s regime-change efforts in Venezuela. Despite the involvement of warmongering National Security Advisor John Bolton and genocide abetter Elliott Abrams, even most mainstream Democrats are praising Rubio’s push to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
In theory, Florida’s Constitutional Revision Commission is a useful body: The group convenes every 20 years and considers amendments to the state constitution. But in practice, the CRC lately has been gamed by lawmakers. It’s bundled disparate concepts to produce absolutely weird results: an amendment put up for public vote…
By now, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has made it almost blatantly clear he’s in the pocket of the gun lobby. Less than two weeks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Gaetz tweeted, “The @NRA is an organization that takes 100% of the blame for the conduct of 0% of its members.” Then, in May, he accepted a $2,500 campaign donation from the organization. To no one’s surprise, the NRA endorsed Gaetz, a Republican who represents the Pensacola area, for Congress last July.
If you steal anything worth $300 or more in Florida, that counts as a felony. That is, to be blunt, an absurdly low number in 2019: It’s the second-lowest felony theft threshold in America (behind New Jersey), and Florida has not updated that number since 1987. Adjusted for inflation, $300…
Senator and flesh-hungry Nordic draugr Rick Scott has spent a lot of time lately attacking Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. He is, in Scott’s estimation, a “dictator.” Scott’s tough talk, though, would be a lot less hypocritical if Florida’s newly minted U.S. senator weren’t also begging President Donald Trump to do some very dictator-like things of his own.
Sen. Marco Rubio’s career has improbably rebounded since Donald Trump humiliated him during the 2016 election season. It didn’t seem to matter that Rubio used an LGBTQ mass murder as an excuse to break his own promise and run for Senate again. Now Trump has basically deputized Rubio to serve as what some politicians are calling “virtual secretary of state for Latin America”…
Much of the news surrounding Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony since his appointment by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 11 has concerned his sweeping the agency clean of former Sheriff Scott Israel’s numerous cronies, Many were hired on the public dime from the world of politics. Now Tony is bringing U.S…
