Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
FOX’s Jesse Watters has been rewarded by the network after calling for Dr. Fauci to face metaphorical “the kill shot.”
Merry Christmas everyone! If you’ve spent anytime watching FOX News in prime time this week (yes I do watch FOX News – it’s important for me to be informed about what is being said there), you probably have seen Jesse Watters. With Christmas week upon us Watters was filling in at various times for both […]
Is Governor DeSantis Pro-Vax? Anti-Vax? Vax-Hesitant?
Thirty five months into his term as Governor the reality is abundantly clear – Ron DeSantis is the most skilled politician 21st Century Florida has seen. In fact, I don’t think their is a close second. We’ve previously on these pages, written at length about the Governor’s ruthlessness in acquiring and holding governing power, which […]
Holiday book recommendation: Bubble in the Sun
Christopher Knowlton’s recent work, “Bubble in the Sun,” <a href="http://<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982128380/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1982128380&linkCode=as2&tag=theflosqu-20&linkId=b58c4f315dcacbab9ba96d2d1ee43d5d">Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depressionis the most complete and definitive look at the Florida land boom and bust of the 1920’s that is available publicly. The book covers the mass get-rich-quick […]
Holiday Gift recommendations: All about FDR and The New Deal
Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR–and How America Was Changed Forever, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, and American Experience: FDR Being a Democrat today inevitably leads back to the New Deal and how the party structure in the United States essentially changed at that point […]
Podcast: Former Secretary of State Bruce Smathers on his father Senator George Smathers (Part 1)
In our continuing look back at the life and career of former US Senator George Smathers, we’re privileged this week to be joined by his son, former Florida Secretary of State Bruce Smathers. We discuss Senator Smathers election to the US House in 1946, the famous US Senate race in 1950 and some of the […]
Holiday book recommendations: Rick Perlstein’s great political reads, 1960-1980
For the better part of the last 15 years, Rick Perlstein has written a narrative about the period from 1960 to 1980 and the effective conservative takeover of America. Perlstein’s four books provide the quite possibly the best societal and political critique of that era. This narrative is split up into four volumes. The first […]
The Omicron wave hits Florida – Time for personal responsibility
Omicron has hit and it could provide us with the biggest wave yet of Covid. This weekend we have seen scores of cancellations of sporting events from NFL, NHL and College Basketball games here in the United States, to Premier League and Football League soccer matches in England to other entertainment events in Europe. The […]
Holiday Book Recommendations: The Whigs
American politics and government was largely shaped by the polarizing Jackson era. The Democrats became a party shaped by Andrew Jackson’s personality and his supporters (Similar to today’s Republicans with Donald Trump) while Jackson’s foremost opponent, Henry Clay became a member of a new party called the Whigs which basically was a bunch of people […]
This week’s Florida commercial aviation news
American Airlines continues to face a shortage of long-haul aircraft and accordingly will cut Miami-Paris (CDG) service for the summer months, with current nonstops ending March 26, 2022. The flight is currently flown twice daily and American has flown the route continuously since 1992. The nonstop route will return in October 2022. American will also […]
Ron DeSantis is Florida’s “Great Divider” that mimics George Wallace and who now has a global following
So much of George Wallace’s lore is about his out-and-out segregationist activities in the 1962 election and between 1963 and 1965 as Governor of Alabama and his quixotic challenge to Lyndon Johnson for the 1964 Democratic Presidential nomination. But let me introduce you to another phase of George Wallace’s career which revolved around his 1968 […]
The Florida Squeeze 