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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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High among the blunders of history was the "blank cheque" Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit.
You expect Republican politicians to criticize Democratic administrations and vice versa. But when Democrats start criticizing Democratic administrations, that is news. Someone once said that the headline "Dog bites Man" is not news, but "Man bites Dog" is. We are now starting to get "Democrat bites Democrat" news.
WASHINGTON -- Weve heard much these past few years about small town values, most recently iterated and personified by Sarah Palin.
It never ceases to amaze that Oliver Stone thinks Ronald Reagan was a dunce. When it comes to judging iron-fisted dictators and anti-American despots, Stone is the intellectually incurious simpleton. He thinks Reagan was stupid because he clung to an all-encompassing ideology. But so does Stone.
Asked if the United States might send still more troops to Afghanistan, if the Obama surge is not succeeding by year's end, Vice President Joe Biden answered, "I do not believe so."
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By Nancy Smith
School officials in Broward and Miami-Dade counties heaved a sigh of relief Tuesday morning when HB 189, the bill that revises the method for calculating the penalty for failure to comply with the state constitutional class size requirements, moved forward.
The bill calls for calculating at the school average instead of the classroom level.
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New York State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling ruled Monday that Mayor Michael Bloombergs new soda regulationwas "arbitrary and capricious" and declared it invalid.
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Pollster Scott Rasmussen provided insight Monday on Americans' distaste for Congress, with Senate Democrats being judged even worse than House Republicans.
According to Rasmussen, more than half of voters think both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives are doing a poor job, but nearly as many also prefer having them run by different political parties the way Congress is now.
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The Florida lottery is having a streak of its own good luck. For the fifth straight week, it has exceeded sales records for its scratch-off tickets.
Scratch-off games topped $74 million last week, besting the previous weeks record by $5.7 million. Florida is one of the few states to have exceeded $70 million in scratch-off sales, behind New York and Massachusetts.
By Nancy Smith
Alas, Mr. Smith can't go to Washington anymore -- unless he's got a buck or two of his own and knows how to harvest and bundle massive donations.
By Kevin Derby
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which calls itself the nation's premier limited government grassroots organization, has issued a statement condemning last week's decision by Florida's two largest business advocates,the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Florida (AIF), to endorse the state's implementation of Obamacare's optional Medicaid expansion.
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Four Republican and four Democratic senators, including Floridas Marco Rubio, who have been working on immigration reform legislation, are said to have come to an agreement on what has become one of the most sensitive components of the immigration overhaul how to deal with the millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S.
By Kevin Derby
Florida Gov. Rick Scott today acknowledged Broward Countys public schools that sustained high student performance or demonstrated substantial improvement in student performance by presenting a check totaling more than $15 million in School Recognition Program funding to Superintendent Robert W. Runcie. The check presentation was made before an audience of educators and community leaders at Piper High School in the city of Sunrise.
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The Florida Senate Select Committee on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPCA) will take up Medicaid expansion and items related to implementation of Obamacare Monday at 1 p.m.
By Nancy Smith
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday announced the reappointments of Carlos Beruff and George Mann to the Governing Board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District. He also announced the appointments of two new members to that same governing board -- Thomas E. Tommy Bronson and Bryan K. Beswick.
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