Sarah Palin Likely Wouldn’t Win Florida Primary, Says Poll Guru

Maybe it was coincidental, but Barack Obama pulled ahead in Florida in the 2008 election shortly after John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Does the Sunshine Sstate not like America’s most prominent hockey mom?Nate Silver, the respected poll guru of FiveThirtyEight.com, says conditions aren’t in Sarah Palin’s favor in…

Marco Rubio Celebrates Obama and Crist’s First Anniversery

Do you remember where you were when everything changed forever exactly one year ago? When the most important political event in Florida history went down? When Charlie Crist man-hugged Barack Obama? Riptide was there in the audience that unholy day, and we’ll never forget. Neither will Marco Rubio. In fact, Rubio is practically…

News Roundup: The Heat Finally Snaps Its Losing Streak

FIU professor Phillip Stoddard is the new mayor of South Miami; with 58 percent of the vote, he beat the incumbent. [CBS4]State welfare officials have decided to offer health insurance and other subsidies to the adopted teenage son of a gay man in Key West, despite Florida’s gay adoption ban…

Silicon Beach: Boat Show Sails Into Social Media

The Super Bowl has come and gone, but one local tradition is still going strong. The 69th annual Miami International Boat Show and Strictly Sail Miami will have boating, fishing, and water sports enthusiasts in a frenzy this weekend. The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), which organizes the show, expects about…

Rubio and Crist Might Face Off in Fox News Debate Next Month

Most Senate primary debates are lucky to get aired on local channels, but the race for the GOP nomination for Florida’s Senate seat is so hot it might end up broadcast nationally on Fox News.According to the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp Politics, Marco Rubio has already agreed to the arrangement. Gov…

Nelly Punched by Fontainebleau Security

Remember Nelly? Guy hasn’t had a single in the Top 20 since 2005. Apparently the only hits he gets now are accidental ones from security at the Fontainebleau.According to Page Six, Nelly was scheduled to perform at a pre-Super Bowl party Friday night at LIV when his bodyguards got into…

Hugo Chávez Calls Twitter a Tool of Terrorism

Socialist crank Hugo Chávez doesn’t much care for communication he can’t control, so it was only a matter of time before he put the kibosh on Twitter in Venezuela.Last week, the tag #FreeVenezuela became a trending topic thanks to citizens protesting Chávez’s crackdown on press freedom and calling for the president’s…

Christian Group Uglies Up Lesbian Moms

Melanie Leon and Vanessa Alenier, the South Florida lesbian couple who last month won a court case to adopt a child despite Florida’s gay adoption ban, apparently weren’t sufficiently ugly for the Florida Family Policy Council’s propaganda purposes. So in an email blast to its members decrying the decision, the group…

Carlos Bertonatti’s Blood Alcohol Content Was .122, Well Over Legal Limit

Blood tests have been completed on Carlos Bertonatti, the aspiring musician accused of drunkenly killing a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway last month and then speeding away. The verdict: Bertonatti was drunk. The 28-year-old’s BAC came back at .122, Riptide’s sources say. In Florida, anyone who blows over a .08 is liable…

Gerald Posner Admits to Plagiarizing From the Miami Herald

Miami-based investigative reporter Gerald Posner has been caught lifting lines from Miami Herald stories for his own stories at the Daily Beast. As a result, Posner has been temporarily suspended.Posner, the author of Miami Babylon and many other well-received nonfiction books, took a gig at Tina Brown’s Internet-based Daily Beast…

News Roundup: Deadly Crash Kills Driver and Dozens of Animals

Jesse Jackson was in town for the Super Bowl and decided to engage in his number one hobby: protesting. He marched against high rates of foreclosure and unemployment. [NBCMiami]A truck pulling a livestock trailer jackknifed in Weston. The driver and about 100 of the animals were killed, but many of the cows,…