HideWhile Republicans control every state Cabinet office and hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the Legislature, Barack Obama carried Florida in the 2008 elections, and on Wednesday the GOP put the Democrat incumbent on notice that they intend to take the Sunshi …
Plans for next year's Florida Blueberry Festival will likely involve adding an additional day to the event, potentially nixing paid entry for music and yes, there will be more blueberries. Those changes and more are what festival President/Coordinator Michael Heard told the …
Each week, the Obama administration (which has become indistinguishable from the Obama campaign) becomes more reminiscent of the old children's story, "The Emperor's New Clothes," with the national media elites playing the members of the king's fawning court, pretending tha …
In an embarrassment to President Obama, Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 – otherwise known as Keith Judd – won 10 counties and 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary Tuesday. Mr. Judd is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Instit …
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During his bid for the Republican presidential nomination earlier in the 2012 election cycle, businessman Herman Cain scored his greatest success when he won the Presidency 5 straw poll held by the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) in Orlando back in September. While …
---snip --- The bottom line is that after three and a quarter years in office and $5 trillion of additional debt the country is no better off than it was when president Obama took office. One thing the administration has done successfully is to create a divide that …
Obama thrives on pitting the have-nots against the haves. Obama divides Americans by demonizing the haves. Obama's rhetoric proclaims that the masses have too little because the rich have too much. Can we get real for a moment? The so-called "poor" i …
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The House Education Committee slapped its support on the side of a bill that would help school districts raise badly needed cash by posting advertisements on the side of school buses. Behind a 14-3 vote on Thursday, HB 19 -- aimed at helping school districts facing mounting tr …
If the Florida presidential primary hinges on debate performance, Mitt Romney sealed the deal Thursday night. Newt Gingrich -- the anointed "Great Debater" and the candidate of big ideas -- looked and sounded small on the CNN stage in Jacksonville. Romney, building on a solid …
County commissioners reluctantly agreed to allow a Spring Hill homeowner to sell firearms from his house, despite hearing from concerned residents in the neighborhood. Commissioners admitted they were handcuffed by a state law prohibiting them from regulating firearms. Board …
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During the practically endless series of Republican debates, we have heard almost every question imaginable asked to Republican candidates – if by every question imaginable, you mean horribly slanted, often irrelevant questions designed to make them look bad and help Obam …
Big Labor: Indiana unions, opposed to becoming the first right-to-work state in the Rust Belt, may disrupt Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
More than half of likely voters disagree with President Obama’s decision to deny a permit for the construction of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, according to The Hill Poll. The announcement, made last Wednesday, has drawn harsh criticism from the right, with Republi …
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If President Obama wanted to prove that he's in favor of jobs for Americans and less reliance on Mideast oil, then he blew that opportunity with his decision to reject plans for a massive oil pipeline through the United States. Obama fed right-wing conservatives a piece of job …
Given the opportunity to create thousands of well-paying, shovel-ready jobs while securing additional oil from a friendly and secure neighbor, our nation’s vacillator-in-chief fumbled the ball. We are of course referring to the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL oil pipelin …
Online students at Florida Virtual School outperformed their traditional-school peers on Advanced Placement tests in 2011, and at less cost, new studies show. Florida Virtual School reported scores that averaged 12 percentage points higher than conventional high schools on the …
There is perhaps no better way to judge the direction of Florida's economy since I took the oath of office last January than by looking at the percentage of people who have jobs this year but were out of work one year ago.
This Tuesday, when President Obama delivers his State of the Union Address, we can count on it to be filled with the same platitudes, anecdotes, false promises, cooked stats and tenuous connection with reality we find in everything the man does.
Plaintiffs in ongoing litigation filed a motion last Friday challenging President Obama's recent recess appointments to the NLRB.
Paul Allen, opposed to a neighbor's plan to sell firearms from his home, is firing back against the county attorney for what he calls misleading comments and for trying to frighten commissioners. County Attorney Garth Coller is sticking to his guns, saying Florida law is cryst …
As I think about it, the inability of the boobs who run the Iowa caucuses to declare reliably a winner until over two weeks after voting is not a small thing.
A $95 sweatshirt currently being sold in President Obama’s campaign store is the work of Alexander Wang, a designer who’s facing a class action suit in federal court for allegedly running a sweatshop where garment workers were forced to work 100 hour weeks in a fact …
"there are no red states or blue states, just the United States." But when it comes to the economic recovery, there has been a clear difference. It turns out that blue states have done worse economically than have red states under President Obama, according to an IBD ana …
President Obama’s campaign of self-congratulation over the killing of bin Laden isn’t sitting well with some present and former members of the Navy SEALS — the outfit that actually took out al Qaeda’s leader. Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the …
During Sarah Palin’s powerful speech to a standing room only audience, where she called out the crony capitalism of the political class, the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd tried to interrupt her. In the middle of the former Governor’s speech, the OWS group …
The House Education Committee slapped its support on the side of a bill that would help school districts raise badly needed cash by posting advertisements on the side of school buses. Behind a 14-3 vote on Thursday, HB 19 -- aimed at helping school districts facing mounting tr …
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