Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Fracking: How the oil price collapse is impacting Williston, ND
Florida’s Republican lawmakers continue to offer fracking as a solution to the state’s economic, job and energy concerns. Williston, North Dakota the prototypical fracking boom town gives us a view into what might happen in Florida from an economic perspective (this doesn’t even take into account environmental concerns). Between 2006 and 2012 Williston was the […]
Interview: Robert Buccellato, author Jimmy Carter in Plains, The Presidential Hometown
Robert Buccellato the author of Florida Governors Lasting Legacies has penned another book this time about President Jimmy Carter and his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The new book Jimmy Carter in Plains: (Images of Modern America) is on sale now for release on February 1. The book is a unique look at the relationship between President Carter […]
Washington Post: Marco Rubio’s Cold War
This Washington Post article is well worth a read in trying to understand Senator Marco Rubio’s foreign policy views and why he keeps fighting the Cold War more than a quarter century after the rest of the world moved on.
Willie Horton in 2016? It could happen again to the Democrats after Köln attacks
Democrats have taken a noble and laudable stand on the acceptance of immigrant refugees from Syria and Iraq. It is from a humanitarian standpoint the absolute right thing to do. But from a political standpoint the danger in this position could be easily exploited if we have a single incident of domestic terrorism caused by […]
City-based School Districts would lead to massive inequality
I read with some curiosity on Saturday a Tampa Bay Times article about a proposal to split school districts. I will admit it caught me completely off-guard because I have not followed anything related to the Florida Legislature this session, as January is always a very busy time for me professionally and unlike in March, […]
Flashback Friday: Florida and the Union Blockade
Florida was the least populated state in the Confederacy during the Civil War. But with by far the longest coastline in the nation, the Union had to take seriously the ability of the smugglers to use Florida to get weapons and other raw materials to the Confederate Government. At the outset of the war, the […]
Would Marco Rubio put American security first?
Florida’s Junior Senator has continued to attack the foreign policy of the current administration of President Obama without mercy or quarter. His attacks have done little improve his standing among GOP Primary voters as he sits over 35 points behind Donald Trump in HIS HOME STATE of Florida according to this week’s FAU poll. That […]
Libya could (and probably should) be an issue against Secretary Hillary Clinton
“Let me fight the two wars already on my plate” That is how Defense Secretary Robert Gates responded to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the spring of 2011 when the United States along with France was leading a multi-national coalition to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power in Libya. Gates recalled this moment in his […]
Why Marco Rubio is more dangerous than Donald Trump or Ted Cruz
Florida’s Junior Senator has somehow cultivated a reputation among Republicans as a “serious lawmaker.” That alone should stimulate red flags about the GOP establishment. The media takes Rubio’s words more seriously than Donald Trump or Senator Ted Cruz because Rubio presents himself in a more favorable way. But Rubio is simply a well-polished pol unlike Trump […]
Marco Rubio’s clownish behavior making Jeb Bush look statesmanlike
For months I have complained that the national political media has adopted a narrative that makes Jeb Bush look like an above-the-fray statesman. Now I can completely understand the point of reference used to create this narrative – it is none other than Bush’s one time protege’ Marco Rubio. This week’s Republican Presidential Debate on […]
The Florida Squeeze 