Five months into Donald Trump's administration, only the unwise doubt the president's intelligence.
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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I read Leslie Wimes' column Friday about Andrew Gillum, and I'm not one bit surprised she thinks Gillum walks on water, same as she thinks Obama did.
Remember the stories that surrounded Barack Obama when he first decided to run for president?
I do.
Putting Humpty back together is off to a rocky start. Could there have been a more disastrous week for the Democrats?
The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on?
We got the headline on Tuesday's Citizens' rate increase story wrong. It wasn't the abuses that forced a 5.3 percent average increase in Citizens' insurance policies in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. It was the Florida Legislature, pure and simple.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
You can fool all of the people some of the time.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Stephen Bittel isn't fooling the majority of black folks right now.
"Contrary" does not quite capture Steve King's astringency. The Iowa native and conservative congressman was born, appropriately, in Storm Lake, and carries turbulence with him. He also carries experience of actual life before politics, when he founded a construction company, which is one reason he has long advocated an excellent idea -- repeal of the Davis-Bacon law.
In one of Walker Percy's brilliant novels, "The Second Coming," protagonist Will Barrett keeps falling down for no apparent reason. He also suffers trances during which he contemplates existential questions.
I probably should have called Peter Schorsch out a long time ago. But in a sea of liberal Tallahassee media who show Sunshine State News nothing but clenched teeth, Schorsch occasionally threw us a bone. So I let a lot slide.
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With U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announcing on Friday that he will leave Congress by the end of October, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), offered him some praise on the way out.
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U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., one of the leading congressional Republican voices on international affairs, praised U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Friday as he announced his plans to resign by the end of October.
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Republican congressmen from Florida may have been at the heart of opposition to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in the GOP caucus but U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., said the Ohio Republicans’s resignation will be a “major loss” and offered praise for him on Friday.
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With U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announcing on Friday that he will leave Congress by the end of October, a longtime Florida congressman said the GOP caucus was in a “state of shock” over the news.
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Under fire from conservatives and with a leadership challenge expected in the days to come, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, shocked the political world by announcing his resignation on Friday.
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., weighed in on Thursday on Pope Francis’ address to Congress earlier in the day.
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With President Xi Jinping headed to Washington for a state visit, Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the co-chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), praised activists fighting for democracy in that communist nation.
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Florida Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, made it official on Thursday: she’s going to forego her last two years in the Florida Senate to run for the Sarasota County Commission. The move had been anticipated.
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One of Hillary Clinton’s rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008--but is backing her this time out--thinks she could have problems with two Republicans who hail from the Sunshine State.
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