With Republicans now back in control of the US House of Representatives one of their first orders of business seems to be a drastic legal redefinition of rape. The proposal has been met with outrage by many anti-rape activists, including South Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who says she “consider[s]…
Name recognition and family connections seems to go along in politics. Salon’s Steve Kornacki points out that “there have been 15 presidential elections since 1952, and in all but two — 1964 and 2008 — the Republican ticket has included someone named ‘Nixon,’ ‘Dole,’ or ‘Bush,'” and wonders if we’re headed to…
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The Miami-Dade police bomb squad was called into inspect a suspicious package at a bank in Southwest Miami-Dade. What they found inside wasn’t so much detonable as it was disgusting. The box contained disemboweled parts of chickens and a goat. …
Former UF coach Urban Meyer and former UM coach Randy Shannon saw their careers as heads of two of Florida’s big three college football teams come to an end after this season for very different reasons, but they both appear to be headed to the same place: ESPN of course…
It’s really heartwarming to know that people of all different races, religions and sexual orientations can regularly agree on one thing: that South Beach is just one hell of a sexy place. While the readers of mainstream mags like Travel + Leisure regularly cite Miami as being home to the…
Malcolm Riddell, a 58-year-old married resident of Sarasota, never got around to password protecting his wireless router. That led to the FBI knocking on his door, holding him up against a wall, and searching his computer for images of child porn according to The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Riddell wasn’t some pervert…
Chad Ochocinco isn’t known for subtlety. The guy can’t even catch lunch at the relatively low key David’s Cafe II on South Beach without a healthy helping of ridiculous. Yeah, the Miami native plowed through the back streets of South Beach in a giant gas-guzzling “super-truck” this weekend. The thing apparently…
The NBA doesn’t want you to think about their players’ crotches. As far as they are concerned their players don’t even have crotches, and any player caught in any way pointing to their crotch apparently gets fined $25,000. That’s what happened to the Heat’s Eddie House for his “obscene” “crotch-related…
”Embattled” isn’t nearly a strong enough adjective for Miami Police jefe Miguel Exposito these days, so we’ll just have to invent a new one: em-blitzkrieged. Because it’s only Tuesday and Exposito’s job security this week looks as tenuous as Hosni Mubarak’s.Just since Friday, these things have happened: Another Miami cop…
News that former basketball star Tim Hardaway is mired in tax trouble, causing the Miami Heat to apparently bail him out by purchasing his mansion, came as a bit of a surprise. After all, he made an estimated $47 million during his playing career, and still works a suit-and-tie job…
Every time Peruvian talk show host Jaime Bayly’s life starts to settle down, things go haywire.When he made it big in Peru, Alberto Fujimori staged an autogolpe. As soon as he moved to Colombia, secret police warned him Hugo Chávez had allegedly hired assassins to kill him. And last fall,…
Judge Roger Vinson, a Republican-appointed Federal judge from the North Florida District, has ruled a portion of the recent Democratic penned health care overhaul unconstitutional. In particular Vinson has ruled that the provision the mandates all Americans be covered by health insurance by 2014 or face paying a fine is…
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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 wing superstar. In fact, his picture is prominently displayed on graphics promoting this year’s CPAC shindig, and yet…
Funny how though Tallahassee has been in the death grip of complete Republican control for more than a decade, the state still finds itself year after year with billion dollar budget holes to close. In order to shore up this year’s $3.6 billion shortfall Gov. Rick Scott, several Republican politicians,…
You know it costs a lot to look this cheap, and we are damned proud of it. Yes, we Miamians tend to take pride in the looks we serve up and the bodies we flaunt, even if the rest of the country shakes their head at some of our favorite…
Britney Spears, also known as the closest thing to a queen America currently has or deserves, was in town this Weekend and walked down the aisle. No, it wasn’t another quickie wedding her like her 2004 Las Vegas nuptuials. Brit-Brit played brides maid to her friend and assistant Brett Miller,…
Doral, that place out there to the west with the fancy golf resort, some strip malls, and some other stuff, probably, has a mayor. His name is J.C. Bermudez and he wants to be your next county mayor. Bermudez announced his entrance into the crowded field of contestants jockeying to replace Carlos…
Say this for Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito: With his seat warming to volcanic temperatures over a rash of police shootings and City Hall spats, he’s not just sitting on his hands. He’s already locked in a half-nelson with Mayor Tomas Regalado (whom he reported to the FBI a couple…
So you go to church every Christmas and Easter, do you? Or perhaps you dress up in your Sunday best and tag along with grandma once a month. Maybe you even go every week, although the fact that you’re reading Riptide suggests otherwise.Well, sorry to break it you but your…
Newly elected Rep. David Rivera’s ethics troubles continue to be a source of shame for both his Republican party and his Miami-Dade constituency. The Associated Press has added more charges to his ever-growing list of suspicious dealings with money. The news wire reports that over the eight years he spent…
