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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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WASHINGTON -- "If two people always agree," says Ben Bernanke, "one of them is redundant."
"Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
Three lessons learned from the Florida Republican Party's straw poll:
The Republicans' presidential debate Thursday night, sponsored by Fox News and Google, gave primary voters and caucus-goers at least one good reason to reject every candidate on the stage.
PHOENIX -- Cindy Vong is a tiny woman with a problem as big as the government that is causing it.
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By Kevin Derby
On Monday morning, former U.S. Rep. Allen West, who has opened the door to a political comeback in 2016, hammered President Barack Obama as a progressive socialist and attacked his record on education. West also linked Obama to segregationist Democrats from the civil rights era like former Gov. George Wallace of Alabama and former Gov. Lester Maddox of Georgia, insisted Obama was following Karl Marxs playbook and added that Martin Luther King would stand with Republicans if he were alive today.
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U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., headed to Panama City Friday where he toured Port Panama City. The event, held by the National Federation of Independent Business/Florida (NFIB), brought Southerland togetherwith small-business owners to discuss the challenges they face due to unnecessary government regulation.
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The National Security Agency came under fire after reports surfaced that it had been snooping on the phone calls of millions of ordinary Americans as well as millions of emails. But now, Americans have the opportunity to follow the NSA back -- if only on Tumblr.
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Miami-based Dream Defenders left Tallahassee Friday and headed to Washington, D.C., where they will take part in the 50th anniversary of the march on the National Mall.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Rep. Allen West weighed in late on Thursday on two black teens beating a World War II veteran in Washington state.
Reprehensible and disgusting, West posted on Facebook. Two black male teenagers are being sought in the beating death of 88-year-old Delbert Benton. Mr. Benton was an Army WWII veteran who survived combat during the bloody Battle of Okinawa.
By Kevin Derby
Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Destin, named former House Speaker Allan Bense, the father-in-law of current House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, to the board of trustees of Triumph Gulf Coast Inc., which manages funds won from lawsuits or settlements in the BP oil spill in the Gulf back in 2010.
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Gov. Rick Scott signed the "Intellectual Disabilities" bill Thursday while co-hosting an Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) town hall meeting in Orlando.
The Intellectual Disabilities Bill will remove the phrase mental retardation from state statutes and instead will replace it with intellectual disabilities. Mental retardation was once considered a valid medical term, but over the years it has become a slang term that promotes negative stereotypes of people with intellectual disabilities.
By Kevin Derby
On Thursday, former U.S. Rep. Allen West continued to attack President Barack Obamas handling of the Middle East.
By Kevin Derby
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) fired back on Thursday at the Florida Democratic Partys charges that attacks made on Allison Tant, the state partys chairwoman, and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., are "sexist."
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In the wake of the highly publicized George Zimmerman trial, a Florida college is offering a new course that will be centered around the controversial Stand Your Ground law.
The course is being offered this fall by the School of Public Administration at the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University.Program coordinator Richard Mangan says the national publicity surrounding the recent George Zimmerman trial helped spur the creation of the course, which is being offered as an elective.
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