Monthly Archives: February 2017
Trump’s foreign policy – lots of bark, little bite
Donald Trump’s tough talk seemingly always leads to controversy. Time and again the bombastic rhetoric of candidate Trump and now the 45th President has created controversy and global headlines. Trump’s mantra isn’t Rooseveltian at all – speak loudly and carry a little stick. While domestically Trump continues to push an extreme agenda that conflicts with […]
GUEST COLUMN: Punching Nazis threatens free speech for everyone
GUEST COLUMN by Page Landrum When it comes to online discourse, I believe in a “Free Market of Ideas.” We have the freedom to offer and hear new ideas, both good and bad. When we meet people promoting bad ideas we have choices. We don’t have to buy into them. We can offer a competing good idea, […]
Fort Lauderdale Strikers on the brink – Part 1: How we got here
The 2017 North American Soccer League (NASL) schedule was released on Monday and conspicuously absent was the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. The date February 6 was ironic as it was three years to the day from David Beckham’s MLS announcement in Miami, a press conference that occurred at a time where it appeared the Strikers were […]
RIP Jim Williams – Florida political legend
Editors note: Jim Williams former Florida LT. Gov who made his name by courageously opposing the Cross Florida Barge Canal passed away in December. By Robert Buccellato Jim Williams was my friend. I can’t claim that I was the nearest or the dearest to him. But, we got along very well during the three and a half […]
Marco Rubio – 15 years of selling out public education
Marco Rubio was educated in Florida’s public school and universities. A man who likes to pass himself off as a man of principle and a defender of American values (as evidenced by his “emotional” showboating during the confirmation hearings of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State – a nominee that Rubio eventually supported) is really […]
What we are reading: Is Florida moving too slow to save the Everglades?
From Florida Trend comes a summary of a national report. The report makes it clear that impediments have placed on restoration efforts. Quoting from the report: Timely authorization, adequate funding levels, and creative policy and implementation strategies are needed to achieve restoration benefits and to expedite implementation of the Central Everglades Planning Project. Climate change and […]
Progressive Caucus endorses Keith Ellison for DNC Chair
Tampa, FL – Susan Smith, President of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, released the following statement on the DNC chair’s election: The Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida (DPCF) is proud to endorse Representative Keith Ellison for Chair of the Democratic National Committee. Our country is in a revolutionary moment. The need for a strong, functional […]
Guest Column: How the Ukraine conflict explains American ethno-nationalism.
By Dave Trotter After the election of Donald Trump, the United States has been awakened to a new reality, the impact of ethno-nationalism in federal elections. Of course, many of us always thought that there was some sort of nationalist element within our body politic, but always thought that it was a minority. And while […]
The Phlip Side: 2018 FL Dem. Dream Team
It is a fact that you can’t beat somebody with nobody. In politics, no matter how bad somebody is you are unlikely to beat them unless you have a better option. Over the past decade Democrats have won a grand total of zero Florida Cabinet races. The Florida Democratic Party failed to even recruit a […]
FOX News – State television that Goebbels (and MSNBC) would envy
The Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels would marvel at how Roger Ailes built FOX News into a voice of the opposition during the Obama years using subtle racism and overt dishonesty. Goebbels would admire how FOX News was able to infect the minds of millions of viewers who don’t gather information from other sources in a […]
The Florida Squeeze 