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I have always been skeptical of the conventional Beltway wisdom that Florida Senator Marco Rubio will be the politico who finally builds bridges between Latinos and Republicans. It’s not that Rubio isn’t a capable envoy; his efforts to craft an alternative version of the DREAM Act (legislation to let illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. [...]
Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred needs to join the 21st century. Or the 20th. Last week, amid the well-deserved outcry over Rush Limbaugh’s stunningly loutish remarks about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke — whom Limbaugh called a “slut” and a “prostitute” for supporting mandated contraception coverage — Allred made a stunningly asinine move of her own. She called [...]
They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing, which helps explain why U.S. politics is riveted once more by social issues. After being locked for three years in a torture chamber of financial disaster, our elected officials are now looking at the improving metrics and deciding it’s O.K. to step back into their comfort [...]
The clash with the White House over birth control is a reminder of just how much influence the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has lost in the 10 years since the child sex abuse crisis erupted in America.
We’re used to invasive species in Florida, from Burmese pythons terrorizing the Everglades to unlicensed plastic surgeons injecting our butts with cement glue. In fact, many Floridians are themselves invasive species, being from someplace else. This can lead to a confused sense of identity — which helps explain not only why Florida has one of the nation’s highest shares of independents, but also why the state’s Republicans and Democrats go through chronic “Who are we?” cycles.
Yesterday I posted a commentary in this space on what I believe was liberal hypocrisy in the wake of last Thursday’s Washington Post article on conservative U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. But today, in fairness, I think former Massachusetts Governor and leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should be called to question for labeling the Post [...]
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio got it from both sides this past week. First it was the birthers, who it turns out are equal opportunity delusionals. The nativist activists, who’ve misspent every waking hour since November 2008 claiming Barack Obama is not really a U.S. citizen, and therefore not really our President, have no qualms about [...]
An election year is nigh, so it’s time once again for Florida to remind us that it’s more than just a dysfunctional retiree repository. It’s Our Most Important Swing State. The Florida Republican Party’s communications director, Brian Hughes, got the ball rolling last week when he announced that the winner of the state’s GOP straw poll, held on Saturday, Sept. 24, would go on to “be the Republican nominee.”
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is having more coming-out events these days than a quinceañera debutante. On Tuesday night, the 40-year-old Florida Republican went to California to deliver a major speech on government at the presidential library of his conservative hero, the late President Ronald Reagan. The invitation, from former First Lady Nancy Reagan, made clear [...]
Florida Governor Rick Scott was in Canada last week, trumpeting the news that three companies there are bringing operations, and more than 200 jobs, to the Sunshine State. The deals were started by Scott’s predecessor, Charlie Crist, before Scott took office in January. But Scott is taking credit for them anyway – and who can [...]
