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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week.
WASHINGTON -- War, said James Madison, is "the true nurse of executive aggrandizement." Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, "War is the health of the state." Hence Barack Obama's State of the Union hymn: Onward civilian soldiers, marching as to war.
If the Florida presidential primary hinges on debate performance, Mitt Romney sealed the deal Thursday night.
Bits and pieces from the Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville on Thursday night ...
Floridas leaders showed tremendous vision by enacting the first-in-the-nation motor vehicle no-fault laws that became effective in 1972.
U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama's man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.
You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail -- but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House.
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By Kevin Derby
Most eyes on Washington are on the looming federal shutdown. But U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., offered some thoughts on the Obama administrations response to the attack on State Department staffers in Benghazi that took place a year ago and left four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, dead.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., came out swinging at an Obama administration-backed proposal of a $320 million federal bailout of Detroit which filed for bankruptcy back in July.
The American taxpayer should not be forced to clean up a mess of Detroits making, said Buchanan on Friday. When is Washington going to wake up and realize that we cant bail our way out of economic distress?
The federal government is hurtling toward $17 trillion in debt, Buchanan continued. We simply do not have the money to bail out failing state and local governments.
By Kevin Derby
Using his Reclaim America PAC, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., looks to flex his political muscles on a national level in 2014 even as he continues mulling over a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
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The University of Florida received unanimous approval from the state Board of Governors on Friday for an online four-year bachelor's degree program.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, best known for his three presidential bids, offered warm words of praise for Ladar Levison who shut down Lavabit instead of working with the National Security Agency (NSA).
He's lost his main source of income. He's now effectively unemployed, Paul wrote supporters on Thursday. And now that his decision to shut down the secure email service Lavabit has created a media firestorm, Ladar Levison has become an even bigger target for our national security spy state.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appeared on Greta Van Sustrens show on Fox News on Thursday night, insisting Democrats were to blame if the potential federal shutdown takes place and calling for defunding President Barack Obamas health care law.
By Kevin Derby
Former Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico, who was the Libertarian Partys presidential candidate in 2012, compared politics to a reality show -- except that the actors are completely out of touch with reality in an email sent out to supporters on Thursday.
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Former state Rep. John Patrick Julien, who lost a close battle for a state House seat last year, passed away on Friday after a battle with cancer.
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The Internal Revenue Service's decision to target tea party and other conservative groups created a lot of controversy earlier this year, but while most American voters believe the IRS broke the law, very few think government employees will be charged with any crime.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll found 53 percent of likely U.S. voters believe the IRS broke the law when it targeted tea party and other conservative groups, while only 24 percent disagree.
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House Democratic Leader Perry Thurston, D-Fort Lauderdale, may have jumped the gun when he announced formerRep. John Patrick Julien, who lost a close battle for a state House seat last year, passed away on Thursday. According to Julien's caretakers, Julien is still alive.
Nadege Green of the Miami Herald took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to announce that Julien's friends and familyat his bedside said he is not doing well, but he is alive.
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