The Republican establishment is in its last throes of function. Having tried everything else possible to elevate Marco Rubio and discredit Donald Trump, they are now using their proxies at The National Review and FOX News to desperately save the say. FOX News embarrassing Tuesday night statement about Donald Trump followed the New York-based Real […]
Monday, February 1st is the Iowa Caucus. This being only the second election since 1952 that a sitting President or Vice President is not running, the contest is proving to be open and exciting in a way many did not anticipate. Join Katy Burnett, Brook Hines and Kartik Krishnaiyer for LIVE coverage of the caucus […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
I sat down with Yulissa Arce the Director of Outreach for Organize Now and the Florida Institute for Reform and Empowerment (F.I.R.E) earlier this week to discuss Climate Change and its local impact. Climate Change is a subject many conservative politicians want to avoid discussing and it does have serious local implications. The interview focuses on […]
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, […]
TFS’ Brook Hines and Katy Burnett discuss the new FAU poll which yielded some interesting numbers on both the Democratic and Republican side. The TFS gang also talk Adam Putnam’s Gubernatorial chances, Hillary Clinton’s continued fall in the polls and its similarity with 2008 as well the latest from Tallahassee and legislative session. Fracking is […]
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 […]
The Florida Squeeze 