August 18, 2015 - 9:45am
Things are getting dicier for U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., as a major Democratic contender jumped in the race this week while another is contemplating getting in.
Curt Clawson: Illegal Alien Behind Lehigh Acres Triple Murder Shows Why Border Needs to be Secured
August 18, 2015 - 8:30am
A triple murder in Lehigh Acres has garnered national attention even as it adds another factor to the debate over immigration, leading a Southwest Florida congressman to speak out against the Obama administration. Brian Omar Hyde, an illegal alien from Belize was arrested last week, accused of the murders of his aunt Dorla Pitts, her pregnant teenaged daughter Starlett Pitts and her boyfriend, Michael Kelly Jr. Hyde had a history of violence in his native Belize.
Mary Thomas Hits Gwen Graham on Planned Parenthood
Submitted by Kevin Derby on August 18, 2015 - 8:16am
Tallahassee attorney Mary Thomas, running for the Republican nomination to take on U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, D-Fla., next year is calling out the Democrat for her support of Planned Parenthood.
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Howson Case Exposes Broward Democrats' 'Living Wage' Hypocrisy
August 17, 2015 - 9:00pm
Hypocrisy yet again is the subplot to a Democratic Party drama, this time involving the story I wrote about late Sunday, the firing/layoff/pink-slip dismissal of an African-American, Broward Democratic Executive Committee Operations Director Michael Howson.
The Strange Death of the Center-Left
August 18, 2015 - 7:00am
In 1935 George Dangerfield published "The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914," a vivid account of how Britain's center-left Liberal Party, dominant for a century, collapsed amid conflicts it could not resolve.
Many Facets to a Jungle
August 18, 2015 - 2:00am
Planned Parenthood Seeks Injunction After Abortion Allegations
August 17, 2015 - 6:45pm
Planned Parenthood fired back Monday against allegations that three Florida abortion clinics provided second-trimester abortions without proper licenses, seeking an emergency injunction against the state Agency for Health Care Administration "to protect women's access to safe, legal abortion."
As grounds for the injunction, Planned Parenthood said AHCA was ignoring a 2006 agency rule, which defined the first trimester as "extending through the completion of 14 weeks of pregnancy as measured from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period."
Senate Panel Passes Altered Redistricting Map
August 17, 2015 - 5:30pm
The congressional district which covers eastern Hillsborough County is set to be in one congressional district, not three, if the Senate has its way with a new congressional map proposal. State lawmakers continued to hammer away at creating a new set of congressional maps on Monday, with several senators putting forth their own amendments to shift the shape of certain districts across the state.
The Impossible Task of Redistricting
August 17, 2015 - 2:30pm
Drawing political boundaries seems like an easy task. It's not.
The Florida Legislature has done it twice recently, and the courts didn't like either plan. This week the legislators are trying again.
A “base map” has been drawn but it hasn't exactly gotten universal approval. No plan ever will.
If programmed correctly, a computer could draw a map that would cut the peninsula up into 27 congressional districts -- squares and rectangles containing approximately the same number of people.
Democrats Start Hedging Bets Against Hillary
August 17, 2015 - 2:00pm
With U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., moving up in the polls and memories of her collapse in the 2008 primaries in their minds, Democrats are starting to hedge their bets, looking at alternatives to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Speculation is growing.
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