MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- When asked whether nationalism is putting down roots in Afghanistan's tribalized society, Gen. David Petraeus is judicious: "I don't know that I could say that." He adds, however, that "we do polling" on that subject.
After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton
You probably can't imagine how much fun I've had at Sunshine State News over the last 10 years. I don't think anybody could.
November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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Being fair as a pollster isn't that hard if you don't have an agenda. The same can be said of opinion pieces, as long as you can persuade readers to join you in weighing all sides of an issue. So here's my go at interjecting reality into some contemporary issues that often have been distorted.
"(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad ... under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. ... He was eventually ... Mirandized and continued talking." -- John Pistole, FBI deputy director, May 4
WASHINGTON -- No one doubts the sincerity or power of the tea party movement anymore. We get it: free market principles, limited government and individual liberty.
Those are the three fundaments of the tea party's "Contract from America," to which any serious Republican must subscribe, nay, sign in blood. Make it real red.
Gordon Brown may have torpedoed his last chance to be prime minister in his own right when, in the privacy of his limo, he called 66-year-old Gillian Duffy that "bigoted woman."
What had widow Duffy done to deserve the slur?
After taking the Labor Party leader to task for several minutes, Mrs. Duffy raised the immigration issue -- "These Eastern Europeans, where are they all flocking from?"
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A deal is in the works among longshoremen and their employers that could avert a potentially crippling, multibillion-dollar hit on the Florida economy.
By Nancy Smith
Just as he did when he was Florida's governor, Jeb Bush -- serving as a consultant -- likely will make a significant mark in restructuring education for success in Virginia public schools.
In a teleconference call Friday to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, Bush called the grading of public schools a "catalytic converter" for academic improvement and he urged Virginia to follow the Sunshine State's lead.
By Kevin Derby
If President Obama was expecting religious conservatives to be satisfied with his proposed expansion of the religious exemptions to his executive mandate that employers subsidize their workers' contraceptives and abortifacients, he seems bound to be sorely disappointed, if the initial reactions reported by FOX News and the Associated Press are any indication.
But how are Florida's conservative, pro-life leaders reacting to this latest development?
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The Senate and House committees reviewing the federal health care law will hold a joint meeting Monday on Floridas options on health care exchanges.
The choice to remain in the default federal exchange, build a state exchange, or pursue a partnership exchange is one of the most important policy options facing the state ofFlorida as the federal government implements PPACA, Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, stated in a release.
By Kevin Derby
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that Titilayo Osholaja Dokun, owner of Capital City Area Care, a Leon County Medicaid home services company, was sentenced today to eight years in state prison for submitting more than $100,000 in false claims to the Florida Medicaid Program. Dokun was convicted last December on four counts of Medicaid provider fraud and grand theft.
Sandy D'Alemberte on Supreme Court Tuition Ruling: University Funding More Important than Governance
By Kevin Derby
Sandy D'Alemberte, former president of both the American Bar Association and Florida State University, and one of the eight plaintiffs in the landmark case Bob Graham v. Mike Haridopolos, has shared with Sunshine State News his reaction to yesterday's Florida Supreme Court decision, which ruled that it is the Legislature, not the state university system Board of Governors, that has authority to set tuition policy:
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Gov. Rick Scott toured the college-prep campus of Allen Nease Senior High School in Ponte Vedraon Friday to again tout his proposal to give teachers a $2,500 pay hike and boost funding for K-12 education by $1.2 billion in the next fiscal year.
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, called for continued space exploration on the 10th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
Ten years ago today the country was shocked as the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over the southern United States, Nelson emailed supporters on Friday.
Husbands and wives lost spouses. Kids lost parents. And our nation lost seven explorers who knew that space exploration helps us better understand the universe and our place in it.
By Kevin Derby
FOX News reports the Obama administration has announced a broader religious employer opt-out of its controversial contraception-abortifacient mandate.
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