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Greedy Lying Bastards Documents Climate-Change Horrors

Rick Ross: Calm Down Before You End Up Like Biggie

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 writes an open letter to the Bawse. Dear Rick Ross:As someone who survived several rap beefs, I'm going to give you some adv ... More >>

Lady Justice

What Will Become Of John McAfee, Marco Rubio and Jeffrey Loria?

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty shaking madness 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 makes his predictions for the new year. What will happen in 2013 to capture people's attention? Who will do something to make us s ... More >>

Assault Rifle Carnage Is All Too Familiar In African-American Inner-City Neighborhoods

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Today, Luke reflects on the parallels between the Newtown massacre and the daily carnage in African-American communities.I'm saddened by the sens ... More >>

After Gibson Park Shooting, the Thugs Are Winning the Inner-City Gang Wars

Uncle Luke, The man whose booty-shaking madness 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 wants Miami Police to reclaim the parks for the children.This past September 8, shortly after 9 p.m., things were tense in Gibson ... More >>

The Five Worst Media Personalities In Miami

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 ranks the least trustworthy names in local news.Miami has a lot of media personalities and journalists who are full of it. They u ... More >>

Five Dumb Things To Do Now That Obamacare Forces You To Be Insured

Last Thursday, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tore off his black robe to reveal a dashiki and bongos. At least, that's how conservatives are portraying the George W. Bush-appointed judge's tie-breaking decision to rule President Barack Obama's health-care mandate constitutional. The upshot: You ... More >>

Blacks Support Gay Marriage

Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain Onstage

Mayor Carlos Gimenez Is a Failure

Forget Facebook: Twitter is for minorities

Aging rappers such as Rick Ross and Jay-Z are still on top

Mitt Romney is racist

Romney, Santorum, Gingrinch, and Paul Are All About the Whites

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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, Campbell rates the racist credentials of the Republican Party presidential nominees. What happened to the party of Abraham Lin ... More >>

Black quarterbacks have no role models in the NFL

Kim Kardashian's next husband: Justin Bieber?

Bill Aimed at Westboro Baptist Church Would Outlaw Funeral Protests in Florida

​Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate would take direct action at the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church. The Kansas-based fringe church, classified by many experts as an active hate group, is well known for protesting military and other high profile funerals with signs reading "God ... More >>

Nick Navarro Put Me In Jail and Put People To Work

​Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke remembers the man who had him arrested for singing obscene lyrics.Nick Navarro was the Made-For-TV-S ... More >>

Racism Starts at Home Then Progresses in School

​Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 addresses the absence of bigotry in children.When I drop my 2-year-old son off at day care, I am so amazed at how ... More >>

NCAA football is modern-day slavery

Luke's Gospel: Miami's inner-city parks need more police

Miami's Black Leaders Need To Unite Like The Cubans

​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 calls for Miami's black political caucus to stop drive-by shootings.Last week, in broad daylight, two gunmen -- one carry ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa broke hip-hop code

Florida's Death Penalty Laws Deemed Unconstitutional

​Florida's particular method of sentencing prisoners to death has been deemed unconstitutional by Miami U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez today. The decision will not immediately strike down the law and didn't find the death penalty in and of itself unconstitutional. Though, it will guarantee conv ... More >>

History Laid Bare

Voters Know That Luther Campbell Is Dead Serious

​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, with the election still hanging in the balance, Luke reflects on the mayoral campaign he made serious.A few weeks ago, WPLG-Ch ... More >>

Casinos, pot, and fun will save Miami's economy

Uncle Luke says legalize marijuana

Good News, Grow House Owners: Drug Sniffing Dogs Can't Smell Your Front Door Anymore

​Economic reports are clear that South Florida's third largest industry -- after fabricating massive housing bubbles and churning out "I'm In Miami Bitch" t-shirts -- is marijuana grow houses. One in every three homes in Kendall, in fact, is actually an empty shell full of sophisticated pot-farmin ... More >>

Mayor Luther Campbell would tax strippers for the public good

Rick Scott's racist clemency rules

I brought up Pitbull from a Pitpuppy

Bikini model tries to sue Luke

The TSA Is Racist And Stupid

​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 gets in on the Transportation Safety Administration body scanner controversy.The Transportation Security Administration e ... More >>

High School Football Coaches Deserve More Cash

​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 tackles high school football coaching salaries.Florida -- and Miami-Dade -- seriously need to change the way high school ... More >>

No, Tea Party. Yes, hip-hop!

Ground Zero mosque idea stinks

Video: "Excited Delirium" Victim Donald Lewis' Violent Final Minutes

Is "excited delirium" a bizzare fatal syndrome first discovered in Miami... or is it junk science used to cover up deaths caused by police abuse? That's the question at the heart of this week's New Times' feature, "The Dark Side". After the jump watch the final moments of Donald Lewis, who died i ... More >>

On Mother's Day, Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland should go to the ghetto

On Mom's Day, the Dolphins GM Should Go to the Ghetto

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 addresses the importance of Mother's Day and why Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland is a motherf***er.Mother's Day ... More >>

Tim Tebow Starring in Super Bowl Ad for Anti-Gay, Radical Christian Right Group

​Tim Tebow may never have another chance to be associated with a Super Bowl, but why is he recording an ad  for Focus on the Family? Yes, the James Dobson founded group announced today that they will air a 30 second commercial during the big game that will start former University of Florida q ... More >>

Republicans Want Fair Districts Initiatives Off Ballot

via FDF​On first glance it seems a little strange that despite the fact Florida is a classic swing-state that currently actually has more registered Democrats than Republicans, that the GOP controls both houses of the state legislative by large majorities and sends more Republicans to the House in ... More >>

Mel Martinez Takes Pride in Sotomayor's "Historic Achievement"

The Senate's lone Hispanic Republican, Florida's Mel Martinez, says he'll vote for the Supreme Court's first Hispanic nominee. Martinez is the second Republican senator to announce his intent to vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (Olympia Snowe quickly become the third after Martinez's announcement.)Here's ... More >>

Guantanamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Wait, So Registered Child Abusers Had More Adoption Rights Than Gays?

Riptide was going to write you up a nice "The Florida Supreme Court for Dummies" post, but in its research found itself caught up in tangents. Our interest was spurred in part by yesterday's overturning of the gay adoption ban by a Miami judge (as well as by future Crist appointments). The issue wil ... More >>

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