Monthly Archives: February 2023
MSD Five Years later – the view from Coral Springs
As a longtime Coral Springs resident who was in High School at J.P. Taravella when Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School opened (and had about half my friends move to the new school, and they were part of the first full graduating class from MSD), the events of February 14, 2018 were among the most painful […]
If Nikki Fried can’t fill out financial disclosure forms properly, how can she run a major political party?
Below is an article from June 2021 that ran on this site about then Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried’s inability to honestly fill out basic forms in a political campaign. Imagine this on the state party level where reporting is much more intensive and complicated. — Financial disclosure forms, a legacy of the progressive good government Florida […]
As antitrust scrutiny rises, jetBlue makes bizarre promises (they likely cannot keep)
As the Department of Justice appears increasingly likely to file a lawsuit in the next few months to block to impending jetBlue/Spirit merger (note, I love Merrick Garland because unlike his last six predecessors he actually enforces antitrust laws, so the fact so many Democratic activists don’t like him because of something something Donald Trump, […]
Florida History Podcast: Runaway Slaves head to 18th Century Florida
As part of Black History Month at the Florida History Podcast ,we discuss several topics we have previously touched upon in greater detail – the impact of runaway slaves on Spanish Florida in the 18th Century, the free black settlement of Fort Mose and the critical role free African-Americans took in defending Florida from British […]
Nikki Fried for Democratic Party Chair is a uniquely terrible idea
Just when you thought Florida Democrats couldn’t sink any lower, the bottom could finally fall out. A group of FDP leaders, have authored an open letter to draft former Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried as a candidate to Chair the Florida Democratic Party. The election is February 25, and former State Senator and Miami-Dade Democratic Party […]
Florida’s first black Congressman- Josiah T. Walls
Florida History Podcast- Josiah T. Walls. Republican Josiah T. Walls was Florida’s first African-American Congressman, and a powerful symbol of the Reconstruction era in the state. Walls was born into slavery in Virginia and captured by the Union Army during the Peninsula Campaign. Eventually he was discharged in Florida after the Battle of Olustee and […]
Black History Month: Capitol Men
The story of the African-American members of Congress during the Reconstruction era is often forgotten. The long standing Dunning School of history made every effort to paint reconstruction as a mistake and portray that the only way to truly reconcile the nation was to let white southerners do what they want in the region. Thus […]
The GOP Assault Weapon Pin/ Con Artist Caucus isn’t just George Santos – it includes a Floridian!
Great video from Blue Amp with Cliff Schecter.
Black History Month: “The Lost Cause” academia and progressive-populism
“Gone with the Wind,” is one of the most famous films in history. Based on a Margaret Mitchell novel, It is a movie that tells a historically inaccurate picture of the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, North and South. It is also a film that in my opinion glorifies rape, something in this #MeToo era needs to be […]
The Florida Squeeze 