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Tax Refund Scams Plagued Miami-Dade In 2012

With another tax season descending on us, you might want to secure your W-2 or 1099 a little tighter. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami has uncovered more than a dozen rackets involved in stealing tax refund checks using stolen identities of social security applicants, eld ... More >>

WTF Florida Awards: 2012's Worst Politicians and Best Sex Scandals

2012 in Weird Florida Politics: Part One of the WTF Florida Awards

Welcome to the first annual WTF Florida Awards ceremony. It's the only award show celebrating the special brand of bizarre depravity we excel at down here in the Sunshine State. Black tie isn't required. In fact, jorts and a NASCAR cap are preferred.We'll be giving away awards in four categories all ... More >>

Obama "Bayonets" Romney In Boca Raton, But America Is Real Victim After Miserable Debate

Last night's debate was what political experts call a "turd sandwich." Barack Obama and Mitt Romney provided 90 minutes of crap, and moderator Bob Schieffer happily mashed it all together between the blandest, stalest, white-bread questions he could find.Obama supporters will say their man won the d ... More >>

Ian Bagg: Meeting Presidents and Sucking Balls

Florida Pastor Terry Jones' Latest Stunt Tied To Attacks In Egypt and Libya, Where U.S. Ambassador Killed

Violent outbursts against the U.S. tore through Libya and Egypt last night, with protestors in Cairo scaling the embassy walls and tearing down an American flag and armed militiamen in Benghazi attacking a consultate and killing the U.S. ambassador and three other diplomats.Florida's hate-mongering ... More >>

The Invisible War Reveals a Military That's "Target Rich" for Sexual Predators

Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee's Messy Mix of Authenticity and Awkwardness

Savages: Oliver Stone's Drug-Trade Drama Settles for Sensation

Arrested Development Rapper Speech: "I'm Disillusioned With Obama and I Would Vote Ron Paul for President"

​There was a time, circa 1991, when hip-hop wasn't all about bling and bitches. Back in the day, the beat dropped and so did some Gil-Scott Heron-inspired wordplay, a call for justice in the inner city, and a shout-out to Malcolm X. Founded by rapper Speech (born Todd Thomas), Atlanta collectiv ... More >>

Michelle Obama, Jill Biden Booed Lustily by Homestead NASCAR Crowd (Video)

​OK, so maybe Michelle Obama didn't actually break any barriers yesterday in Homestead as the first black woman ever to watch a NASCAR race. She may well have set a different, all-too-predictable record, though: most heartily booed MC at the season-ending race south of Miami.Broadcast live on ... More >>

American Values Group Urges President Obama to Address Urban Beach Weekend Chaos

photo by Ivon David Rojas​The events of Urban Beach Weekend certainly have Miami Beach locals talking, but is it really an incident that the President of the United State needs to address? Gary Bauer, president of social conservative group American Values and a former Republican presidential candi ... More >>

Letters from the issue of May 19, 2011

Guns online: No permit needed

Imam of Miami Mosque and Sons Indicted for Financially Supporting Taliban

​A father and his two sons in South Florida have been arrested and charged with financially supporting the Pakistani Taliban. Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, the Imam of the Flagler Mosque, was charged with providing "material support" to the terrorist organization by federal prosecutors. His so ... More >>

Should We Cut off Aid to Pakistan? Allen West Says Yes, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Says No Way

​The Pakistani government and military is facing tough criticism after Osama bin Laden was found living rather comfortably in a large city in their country just minutes from Pakistan's top military training academy. Rep. Allen West of Broward and Palm Beach, ever the reactionary Republican, is lea ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden "Removed" by Pope John Paul II, says Peruvian President Alan Garcia

wikimedia commonsDo you believe in miracles? Alan Garcia does, just not the nice, feel-good kind.​Pope John Paul II may have died six years ago, but the recently beatified Pole still packs quite a holy punch. At least, so believes Peruvian president Alan Garcia, who credited JPII for "removing" Os ... More >>

Rick Scott's racist clemency rules

No Clemency For Felons Means Southern Racism Is Back

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>

Wynwood Art Walk preview

Ground Zero mosque idea stinks

Fla. GOP Ex-Congressman Comes Out Strongly In Favor of Ground Zero Mosque

​Despite being thousands of miles from Florida and having nothing to do with local politics, the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" has become an issue in the sunshine state's 2010 election. While even some Democrats (we're looking at you Alex Sink and Ron Klein) have come out against the Islamic comm ... More >>

Five Annoying Things About Today's Herald Story On Miami Spice

​When I first saw The Miami Herald front page headline this morning -- "It's Time To Add The 'Spice'", I thought reporter Elaine Walker was copying Short Order's tallying of which restaurants were worth going to for Spice and which weren't. But there was no critical commentary involved -- probably ... More >>

Miami SWAT Buying Body Armor From Company Linked to Fraud, Prostitution

Government evidence photo via the New York TimesDavid H. Brooks in full Lord of War bling. Somewhere, Toby Keith is missing a belt buckle.​In the chaos that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, David H. Brooks got rich. He transformed a small, struggling company called DHB Industries into o ... More >>

Gerald Posner's New Gig: Representing Mahmood Karzai, Afghan President's Embattled Brother

Photo by Bill CookeGerald Posner, international man of mystery.Mahmood Karzai, meet Gerald Posner.​You're a multimillionaire Afghan "entrepreneur" who happens to be the brother of fabulously corrupt President Hamid Karzai, and you've just been accused by the Wall Street Journal of airlifting billi ... More >>

Matt Damon and his WMD of a movie Green Zone confirm the big lie, Hollywood-style

Silicon Beach: Miami Freezes Ass Off, But Fingers Still Warm Enough to Twitter

Stop whining. Miami also froze its ass off in 1977. That's yours truly in Coral Gables.​Record low temperatures, plummeting today into the low 30s, seems to have stunned Miamians more than the iguanas that are falling out of trees. Activity has been warm online, with a few brave souls publishing ... More >>

Art Capsules

Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vice

The feds say a local man smuggled millions of smokes for terrorists. He's not alone.

'I Was Cooperating with Evil': A Former Gitmo Prosecutor Sounds off About a Corrupt Process

Two years ago, when Darrel Vandeveld flew to Guantánamo Bay to work as a prosecutor, no one else believed more in the detention camps and all they stood for in the War on Terror.Courtesy Wikimedia Commons"I was totally gung ho," Vandeveld tells Riptide. "I was convinced that we actually had the 'wo ... More >>

Obama's First Act: Closing Gitmo (But Don't Say Farewell Just Yet)

The prez-elect electrified the newswires yesterday when word leaked he plans to issue an executive order during his first week in office -- and maybe his first day -- officially shutting down the detention camps at Guantánamo Bay.But before you start planning those Gitmo V-Day parades, Obama sounde ... More >>

Wanna Close Gitmo? Great. Now Who's Going to Take All These Prisoners?

As we prepare for the dawning of the age of Obama in exactly two weeks, this weekend provided another reminder it's going to take more than a feel-great election and historic inauguration to clean up the mess of the past eight years.Obama has promised time and again to quickly shutter the detention ... More >>

Accused Arms Dealer Trades Guns for a Guitar

Now he's packing a tune.

Picking Presidents For Idiots

Pelosi disses Obama in the Gables

Twin Vets Helping People Go Green

Universal Soldier

Twenty years later, our one-man military machine's still going Rambo.

Letters from the Issue of June 7, 2007

"It’s always easier to keep your mouth shut and pull the trigger"

Letters from the Issue of May 17, 2007

"Camilo Mejía, you, sir, use America's freedom of speech to erase your cowardice."

Forget Gun Control

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

The Few, The Proud ...

Four days at a South Carolina boot camp

Station to Station

From Austin to Australia, Ozomatli spreads its world funk message

First Edition

The National Hip-Hop Political Convention sets an agenda for a new generation

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Thompson of Arabia

The case for an American Al-Jazeera

Mindless Security, 2002

Dumb passengers: 50 Caught terrorists: 0

Carl Juste

Personal Best

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

Paradise Lost, Again

As Miami Beach prepares for life in wartime, it's on its own

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