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Americans Caused Boston Marathon Tragedy

America's Fracking Gold Rush Portends the Greatest Environmental Disaster of a Generation

2016: Obama's America: The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

Call to Assassinate Hugo Chavez's Brother Allegedly Hidden in Venezuelan Crossword

Only in a country like Venezuela with such tight and ridiculous controls on press freedom could a crossword writer be accused of embedding a call to kill the president's brother in a puzzle. Perez Pirela, a TV pundit who is something like a pro-Chavez Glenn Beck, made the accusation against&nbs ... More >>

Mormons: Hate 'em or elect 'em

Michele Bachmann Can't Win Florida, Let Alone the Presidency; Here Are Five Reasons Why

David Shankbone via Wikimedia CommonsWould you vote for this woman, Florida?​The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday -- winning the state's straw poll over Smucker's jam spokesman Ron Paul -- but also the congresswoman claimed ... More >>

South Florida Tea Party Publishes Smorgasbord of Lies

​The South Florida Tea Party posted some shocking statistics last week: Compared to England and Canada, Americans have better cancer survival rates, a larger proportion of healthy low-income seniors and better treatment of diabetes.It also said only 8 percent of President Barack Obama's cabinet ha ... More >>

Florida Tea Party Group Thinks Saving Manatees Is Part of Mass Godless Conspiracy

​Members of Florida Tea Party groups are so upset with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's efforts to save manatees that they are claiming that new rules to possibly be imposed in famous Kings Bay would not only go against the Bible, but also are part of a vast United Nations conspiracy ... More >>

Send Your Kids to Florida's Tea Party Summer Camp

Sorry, baby, those Bush-era adjustable doll house mortgages really screwed us all. ​Are you a faithful member of the Tea Party? Are you worried that your kids, little Ronnie and Reagan, aren't fully committed to your political cause? Well, why not have them stay with a relative in Tampa for a week ... More >>

Allen West, uncut

A candid conversation with South Florida's rising Tea Party star.

Boy Writes Miami, Pissing Off Yelp and Others Along the Way

​"[Reviews] aren't the place for rants about matters that don't address the core of the normal customer experience," wrote a lady named Alma on Yelp. She was reprimanding Orlando Winters for a review on the site. This is not surprising, considering his reviews usually approach near absurdity. But ... More >>

Moby Talks Technology, Glenn Beck, and the Perks of Subtlety

​Emerging from New York City's early-'90s acid house rave scene, Moby debuted with a deep, aqueous, tribal sound that would veer from ecstasy-rich techno to aggro industrial before crystalizing into the crossover poptronica of 1999's multi-platinum Play. Along the way, this socio-politically out ... More >>

Moby at Ultra Music Festival March 26

Steve Berke: Comedian for Miami Beach mayor

Wacky Jackie

Marco Rubio Skips CPAC: Is He Purposefully Shunning the Conservative Movement?

Rubio has real estate right next to Glenn Beck on this year's CPAC banner​Last year Marco Rubio delivered the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Headlining perhaps one of the most important centralized Conservative events in the country officially made Rubio a right wi ... More >>

Letters from the issue of January 27, 2010

Palin and Beck killed 'em in Tucson

Aliens, military wackos, and the next war

The U.S. Military Ready to Wage War on Outerspace Terrorists

​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 dissects the worldwide UFO conspiracy.A propaganda campaign to prepare us for the next big war is underway. But this time ... More >>

Famous marijuana users

From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

Eleven Songs We Wish Taylor Swift Had Written for Her New Album, Speak Now

Speak now, Taylor, or forever hold your peace.​Yes!!! Taylor Swift just unveiled the official track list for her long awaited third album entitled Speak Now! As many of us "Swiftians" know, her last album Fearless was released two years ago and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. We're pretty s ... More >>

International Burn a Koran Day: What else can we torch September 11?

Lil Wayne's Lyric Book and Five Other Things to Burn With the Koran

MyFoxOrlando.comWhy are we not surprised that Terry Jones is a 'Braveheart' fan?​Gainesville pastor Terry Jones has set off a firestorm by planning "International Burn a Koran Day" for September 11 to protest the "religion of the Devil." As Jones posits on YouTube: "I mean, ask yourself: Have you ... More >>

Florida Tea Party Candidate Wants to Put Illegal Immigrants in 1940s-Style Camps

"We can ship them out to the middle of the country and put up high walls and leave them there," says Marg Baker of illegal immigrants. The Tea Party candidate for the Republican nomination to a state house seat north of Tampa made the remarks at a rally for Glenn Beck's "9/12" project, and is standi ... More >>

Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes state policy, thanks to Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce and Gov. Jan Brewer

Conservatives Want The Burger King to be Next President of United States

​Every once in a while, about as often as a blue moon, the conservatives on the Internet actually come up with something that is sort of hilarious. Not like "funny" in the way Glenn Beck is funny, but actually legitimately funny.See, now they want The Burger King to be the next president of the Un ... More >>

Keith Olbermann Rips Marco Rubio: "You Have Long Behaved Like a Teenager Who Borrowed His Father's Suit"

Marco Rubio borrowed a thought he credited to Glenn Beck at a rally Wednesday and had this to say about immigration: "There are millions of people in America that hate our country, so why can't we just do a trade? We'll send you Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo, and Keith Olbermann, and you can send us p ... More >>

Tanning Tax Is Racist, Says Some Guy on Glenn Beck's Radio Show

​Glenn Beck couldn't make it to his radio show yesterday (maybe his car had been towed), so some guy named Doc Johnson took over hosting duties, and he was out to expose the new horrible, horrible threat of racism that is coming out of the Obama administration: the tanning tax!As part of ... More >>

53 Glenn Beck Fans' Cars Towed From UCF Frat Lot

​Normally, we don't want to pretend we're in the same state as Orlando, but hats off to these University of Central Florida frat boys who allegedly pulled off an epic prank on tea baggers visiting the school to hear Glenn Beck speak.The Beck fans showed up and saw signs pointing them toward free p ... More >>

Victoria Jackson: "The President Is a Communist" Fox News: "He Is Not a Communist"

Our old friend, Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson, was on the Fox News show Fox & Friends today. She's as crazy as ever, or as Gawker put it: "just a touch too crazy for Fox." She was plugging her appearance with Sarah Palin ("my hero") this weekend at a Tea Pa ... More >>

Health Care Reform Passes, No Thanks To Your South Florida Politicos

If you're half as cool as the staff here at Riptide, you were flipping between March Madness and C-SPAN last night like your life depended on it. Which to pick?photo by Sage Ross, via Wikimedia CommonsThe power of cardboard signs and megaphones was not enough to derail health reform.On CBS, Korie Lu ... More >>

Conservative Christian Group Calls for Boycott of the Super Bowl

​Depending on how you look at it, one of the beauties of the Super Bowl is that all of America gets to put aside their non-NFL differences, turn the brains off, and indulge in massive amounts of chicken wings and beer for the night. But a Conservative Christian group, The Christian Resistance,&nbs ... More >>

Marco Rubio Fighting Out Against Anti-Miami Bias

via Rubio's Flickr​President Obama and many in his administration have been accused of "Chicago style-politics" by the likes of Glenn Beck and others. Now Marco Rubio is facing similar criticism for being "a slick package from Miami." Maybe the two can get together and man hug it out."Rubio is a s ... More >>

Florida Circus: NY Times Dives Into the Crist-Rubio Race

​The New York Times Magazine's massive piece about the Marco Rubio vs. Charlie Crist race just went online. If you've been keeping a close eye on the race, and reading our nearly obsessive coverage, there's not a lot new to learn besides some interesting color here and there. If you haven't, it's ... More >>

Miami Has the Most Foreign-Born Workers in the Country

Dear Miami: Think about this next time you hear Lou Dobbs or Glenn Beck slobbering about the evils of immigration.​Almost half of the entire workforce of Miami was born outside the U.S. of A. Take away Miami's immigrant workers, and you're left with Tulsa by the Sea.So says a new report issued thi ... More >>

Around Town This Weekend

​Glenn Beck is in town, so instead of shaking your fist at your '90s box, shake it at the man -- live and in person. We hear he has some wonderful things to say. For another form of battle, check out Unconquered 1: November Reign for a luscious MMA fight that'll leave someone begging ... More >>

Rage Against the Machine

Fake Hooker Who Exposed ACORN Is an FIU Journalism Student

Hannah Giles -- the 20-year-old FIU journalism student, minister's daughter, and fake hooker who, along with an accomplice, exposed some ACORN offices' habits of offering business advice to pimps and hoes -- is garnering praise from Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and even John Stewart. Giles and a mal ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top Ten Songs for Obama Haters

via rpof.orgJim Greer thinks censorship is very American.​All summer long I have gone shit-house-rat-crazy observing the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove and the rest of The Right's evil elite dispense fear-mongering falsehoods in a desperate attempt to stop some much nee ... More >>

Chile Takes American Banks to Court for Aiding Pinochet

via Wikimedia CommonsHave you seen this new, weird children's television program Fox News has on called "The Glenn Beck Show?" I've seen it only once, and Beck was harping on about how Obama was a socialist, and how socialism or anything vaguely like it is horrible because Stalin killed a ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of November 1, 2007

"Calling an illegal alien an undocumented worker is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist"