Facing criticism that his mind has been elsewhere, Sen. Bill Nelson has finally given his talk about Chinese drywall, snakes, space, and Chinese snakes in space a rest to address the nationally pressing concern of health reform. The man does sit on the Senate Finance Committee after all, which yesterday released its…
The Florida Personhood Amendment we wrote about last week would not only outlaw abortion in the state, but also potentially ban birth control pills and other forms of contraception.The American Life League, one of the main groups behind the push (when it’s not busy printing tacky “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy” signs) says…
Rod Blagojevich criticizing anyone for making a shady appointment to a Senate seat is sort of like Kanye West chastising someone for awards-show misbehavior. But then again, egomaniacs aren’t really that self-aware. Blago went on Fox and Friends this morning to pimp his upcoming book and argued he wasn’t trying to…
Last November, pro-life groups put a ballot measure before Colorado voters asking them if “personhood” should be extended to the moment of conception. Even in a politically heated and polarized year, voters rejected the amendment by 73 percent. But that hasn’t stopped Personhood USA and the American Life League from…
Last night the President of the United States spoke before a special joint session of Congress to defend an issue that may very well come to define his first term in office. He also gave a stirring defense of good ol’ fashioned American Liberalsim with no apologies, something we haven’t…
Florida’s 33rd senator, George LeMieux, will be sworn in today at 2:45 amid concerns his Broward law firm helped secure visas for foreigners to work on a hotel and condo project in Bal Harbour, depriving Americans of jobs. As our brothers in blog-arms The Juice point out, a Capital News Service video confirms what’s…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and the county commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers as if they were life vests on a sinking ship. They’ve simultaneously tossed overboard funding to cultural efforts and other social programs.That hasn’t proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted…
Florida ranks 47th out of the 50 states in terms of influence and seniority in the U.S. Congress, according to an analysis by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A dismal ranking by any means, but even more so considering we’re the fourth most populace state. Our legislators have less swagger on the Hill…
Oliver Stone predicts he’ll have a hard time finding distribution for his latest documentary, South of the Border, a cinematic love letter to Venezuela’s controversial president, Hugo Chávez. “This is a bigger issue than Mr. Chávez and South America,” Stone tells Reuters. “Not only is there a revolution there, but…
Could it really have been only January that Riptide, having gathered information from high-level sources within the Versailles Cafée waitstaff, declared Fidel Castro was “Totally Dying This Time, for Reals”? Now it seems El Supremo is less dead than ever. Recent pictures show him outside, shaking hands with a Chinese…
Hey, look, it’s another Marco Rubio web ad. This one starts out well, listing all the problems Florida’s economy faces and prepares to point the finger squarely at the governor, who’s Goliath to Rubio’s David in the Florida Republican Senate primary. But then the Rubio team relies on a bit…
Back in my school days, when the president spoke, we listened (or at least pretended to). This was, of course, after walking 15 miles in the snow, uphill, to school. Nowadays, whippersnappers think they can just stay home from school because the president wants to address them. What in hell is wrong…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Riptide was one of the first outlets to jump on Jim Greer’s “Obama wants to indoctrinate your children into socialism” rant, and since then, it’s gone national. Last night, Greer hit up MSNBC’s Hardball, CNN, Fox, and the…
The debate over health care might be heated across the nation, but leave it to Miamians to turn it violent. Luis Perrero, a 65-year-old man demonstrating in favor of health-care reform, was punched in the face and knocked to ground by a man who disagreed with him, according to Naked Politics…
The story of Christine Morales, the should-be-ashamed former assistant director at the City of Miami Building Department, is one of squandered opportunity. Christine earned more than $100,000 a year doing who knows what, and not very much of it. Surveillance footage obtained by Miami New Times reveals Christine’s nervous body language…
For many students across the nation, September 8 will be their first day of school, and President Obama has decided to address them. Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has somehow interrupted this as a “use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Rather than take…
John McCain and Mitch McConnell, the two most strapping studs of the GOP, reportedly will head to Hialeah tomorrow for a health-care forum, and Obama wants you to protest it gather peacefully and respectably outside. They’ll also attend a National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser at the swanky Biltmore in Coral Gables later in…
If you love watching poorly produced late-night infomercials, Farid Khavari might be the gubernatorial candidate for you. Khavari, a Miami resident, announced his candidacy today as a Democrat, and his entire platform seems to be instituting a Bank of the State of Florida, which a stern-sounding announcer clearly lays out…
Counting Charlie Crist’s announcement today that he’s chosen his former Chief of Staff to fill out the remained of Mel Martinez’s senate term, in that past year alone six United States Senators have entered office through being appointed by a Governor. Depending the outcome of a debate over a law…
Former Opa-locka gangbanger turned WWE superstar Alvin Burke Jr., AKA MVP, has some very provactive thoughts about the state of political discourse in this country: Basically he wants to see Ariana “the Greek Gladiator” Huffington take on Ann “Man Hands” Coulter in a steel cage match. “I’d love to get…
Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek have only a few things in common: They’re both running for Senate. They’ll both likely face Charlie Crist. They’ll both likely lose to him. And now they both don’t very much like George LeMieux’s status as newly minted senator. Politically, this is just about the only thing…
Remember when Mel Martinez deemed his primary opponent Bill McCollum as the “new darling of the homosexual extremists?” Well, now he’s being replaced by the new new darling of the homosexual extremists. The combined forces of the Times/Herald are trying to stir up some controversy by dragging out quotes George LeMieux…
