It wasn’t quite as ambitious of a declaration of President John F. Kennedy promising to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, but yesterday President Obama predicted that astronauts will land on Mars within his lifetime.”We’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time…
Jeb Bush left office four years ago, but Associated Press writer Martin Merzer thinks he may still be in charge of the state — or at the very least still the most influential voice in the governing Republican party.”He’s become a legislative Wizard of Oz — thunder and lightning and…
University of Miami will be hosting former President Bill Clinton’s third-annual Global Initiative University meeting this weekend, and while Clinton will be attracting the over-50 club to the event, plenty of those still not eligible for a social security check are gearing up for appearances by a flock of charity-conscious…
Gov. Charlie Crist has vetoed the Jeb Bush-backed, controversial SB6. The education bill would have eliminated tenure for newly hired teachers, and would have tied a portion of teachers’ salaries to test score results.”I say we must start over. This bill has negatively affected the morale of our parents, teachers…
Republican voters may be wild over Marco Rubio, but a new Quinnipiac poll shows that no matter what the situation Charlie Crist would be a more viable general election candidate. In fact, if he decided to run as an independent he leads in the polls. Which doesn’t do anything to…
The deadline to officially register to run for Senate is coming up, and speculation that Gov. Charlie Crist could shift out of the difficult Republican primary against Marco Rubio and run as an independent has reached a fever pitch. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Crist is being advised…
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has turned his back on the political process of the state he used to be governor of, Arkansas, and has apparently registered himself to vote in Florida. The Huckster doesn’t own property here, but he rents a beach house in the Panhandle, which is apparently…
Richard L. Scott, a businessman who lives in Naples, has thrown his hat into the ring for the Republican’s gubernatorial nomination against Attorney General Bill McCollum and state Sen. Paula Dockery. Don’t know anything about him? Here’s some fun facts:He hates President Obama’s health care reform so much that he…
In the News Roundup each morning we’ve been keeping an eye on the plight of Diana Smith, a local mother battling a rare form of leukemia. Smith was almost denied a life saving treatment when Social Security disability payments made to her son raised her income enough to where she…
Days before Fountainbleau’s nightclub LIV sinks to a new low by hosting Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, they’ll be welcoming a slightly higher profile bold face name who was caught up in a super-sized infidelity scandal of his own: Bill Clinton…
Long before anyone in the lower 48 had ever heard of Sarah Palin, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s name kept coming up as a possible John McCain running mate, especially after his endorsement helped McCain win Florida and seal the nomination. Now Crist’s been reduced to trailing Marco Rubio in the…
State Sen. Frederica Wilson is currently running to replace Kendrick Meek in his North Miami congressional district. Apparently she’s going around telling everyone that she’s banned “dirty dancing in our community.” Now, last time we went out to a club, we’re pretty sure that we saw lots of people dirty…
Last week marked the five-year anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo. Just ten days before the March 31 anniversary, Family Guy, which basically stays relevant by creating controversy, poked fun of the entire Schiavo affair by including a storyline about Stewie’s pre-school class putting on a play which included the song…
A bunch of tea baggers held a rally on the steps of the Florida capitol up in Tallahassee today, and politicians including Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp came out and spoke to them while standing by a podium made to look like two crates stamped with the word “Tea.”Naked Politics reports…
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…
Marco Rubio may be well ahead in the polls, but he hasn’t even won the GOP nominations for Senate yet, let alone the actual general election. That hasn’t stopped one conservative columnist with a prominent Rubio-induced rager from talking up the Miami lad as a 2012 presidential contender.”I believe that…
Dr. Jack Cassell, the dick doctor in Orlando who hates President Obama so much he put up a sign telling those who voted for him to get their urinary tracts checked elsewhere, has been all over the media. CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, you name it. He was even…
Marco Rubio announced Friday that Rudy Giuliani endorsed his campaign for Senate. The two will campaign today in Coral Gables.The political press has interpreted this as a snub of the governor, because Charlie Crist endorsed John McCain for president in 2008. Not one, not two, but a million pundits went…
Dr. Jack Cassell sounds like a real dick doctor, and that has nothing to do with the fact he specializes in urology.The Mount Dora physician recently put up a sign informing potential patients: “If you voted for Obama… seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not…
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,…
Who’s going to be Florida’s next senator come Election Day in November? No one knows. Not even respected political newspaper The Hill. It recently changed its ranking of the race from “leaning Republican” to “toss-up.”A recent Research 2000 poll showed Meek was pulling within 1 percent of Rubio, 41-40 percent. Though…
Unfortunately for ex-Florida Gov. Job Bush and former Miami mayor Manny Diaz, they didn’t have enough money, clout or the proper political climate to get an exemption to term limits and run a third time. A man who did, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has chosen them to serve…
