Category National Politics
Inability to comprehend Trump phenomena exposes political class naivety
The indignation many in the political class have demonstrated towards Donald Trump’s emergence as a top-tier Presidential candidate speaks loudly to the isolation many in the political class live in, as well as the arrogance and elitism many regularly display. Having worked in and around politics for many years before branching out doing other work, […]
About that US Senate hearing and a possibly passive nativist media…
The US Senate’s hearing into corruption in global soccer including the game here in the United States went largely unreported in the media that covers the sport domestically, with most of its coverage based in publications that cover politics and government. For years, the powers that be at US Soccer and Major League Soccer (MLS) […]
US Senate FIFA hearing yields deafening silence in media (VIDEO)
Yesterday, the US Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security held a lengthy public hearing about the FIFA scandal. You would think this would have been a major news event within the world of American soccer. But coming just 10 days after the US women lifted the World Cup trophy […]
Thursday Bookshelf – President Jimmy Carter “Turning Point”
President Jimmy Carter’s 1992 book, Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age is the story of Carter’s first run for public office. In 1962, Carter sought a seat in the State Senate and was the victim of blatant vote stuffing. At the time Georgia was still resisting desegregation laws, and elections […]
Thursday Bookshelf: RIP Speaker Jim Wright
Former House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) passed away last night just months after his longtime friend Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas) passed. Both were 92 years old. Speaker Wright hailed from Fort Worth and used his power to help his local area (including a restriction of commercial flights into Dallas’ Love Field forcing airlines to use […]
Thursday Bookshelf: Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture
Normally our focus is on books related to the state of Florida, but this topic in particular was on my mind, and since Richard Nixon was the closest thing we have gotten to having Floridian in the White House (During Nixon’s 1972 reelection he was registered to vote in Florida and was nominated both in […]
Monday Musings: Rep. Moskowitz’s tax exemption bill, Gwen Graham meets progressives, Means of Ascent, Alachua DEC and Marc Caputo joins Politico
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Coral Springs) has filed a piece of legislation (HB 49) that would increase the amount of income that is exempt from corporate income tax. With this sort of legislative agenda you would think Rep. Moskowitz hails from a swing district where he must worry about Republican challenges and position himself accordingly. However, […]
Thursday Bookshelf – FDR and the birth of modern liberalism
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 […]
Thursday Bookshelf – The Bush Dynasty
With Jeb Bush “exploring” a bid for the Presidency in 2016 now is the perfect time to discuss a timeless classic. Kevin Phillips, who was dubbed in 1995 by one of my Political Science Professors at the University of Florida as “the smartest Republican around,” is widely viewed as the chief architect of the 1968 […]
Thursday Bookshelf: Democrats in the South and Midwest
A review of A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat and What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Two books, two perspectives on the decline of Democrats in the South and Midwest from a decade ago. I bought both these books in the summer of 2004 while embroiled in […]
The Florida Squeeze 