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With the Florida Democratic Primary for Governor only a few months away, many prominent progressives have been quiet regarding the primary. While many Democrats have different reasons for getting involved in the primary process, some who would naturally be supporting a progressive candidate and not a long-time Republican officeholder have been strangely silent. Democrats have […]
By The old guy sitting on the bench, Guest Columnist Sixty years ago, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ was in fact unequal. Standing here today I wonder what has really changed. Yesterday my wife and I had went shopping for groceries and other things we need […]
The Florida Education Association endorsed Charlie Crist for Governor on Saturday. The recommendation was long expected. The state’s teachers’ union has been concerned about the continued assault on public schools under the Scott Administration and the current legislative leadership. However, many activists have questioned the FEA’s endorsement based on Crist’s previous record on issues related […]
Former Governor Charlie Crist’s ride as the presumptive Democratic nominee began smoothly with a seeming coronation and a few months of “Charlie-mania” among Democrats but has now descended into a less than secure place. Certainly Crist will be the Democratic nominee for Governor barring a “summer surprise” of catastrophic proportions, but it has become obvious […]
On this the 60th Anniversary of the momentous Brown decision, I would like to strongly recommend one of my favorite TV movies ever-Separate But Equal. This is the story of the court battles that led to the final Supreme Court decision, with Sidney Poitier playing Thurgood Marshall and Burt Lancaster in his final film role playing […]
Attorney General Crist in 2005 discussing the case One of the darkest episodes in Florida’s history, the murder of NAACP leader Harry T. Moore. In 1951 when Moore was murdered in Mims, local Democrats in Lake, Orange and Brevard County were not only segregationists but were sympathetic to hoodlums in the Ku Klux Klan. Even […]
Lots has happened in Ukraine since my last update on the crisis, and there’s plenty to talk about. This past Sunday was election day in two eastern Ukrainian regions- Luhansk and Donetsk, where only one question was brought before their voting citizens on their ballot: Do you support the declaration of state independence of the […]
After weeks of bashing presumptive Democratic nominee Charlie Crist on various charges, the Let’s Get to Work Committee has actually released a positive ad entitled Grandpa. It’s a change in tact from a committee that has failed to raise Crist’s negative substantially enough to change the shape of the race, while the Governor’s negative numbers […]
Authors Note: In addition to these books, please make sure you check out the latest from Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars both the book and documentary that examine the “Obama Doctrine” in this new type of warfare involving drones, and Restrepo the documentary based on the book War by Sebastian Junger. My generation is the new war generation. […]
The Florida Squeeze 