First off let me establish my views of Benghazi. I believe it was a tragedy and unlike many Democrats I am willing to admit it reflects poorly on this administration and a certain degree of stonewalling took place because it was an election year. But to somehow equate Benghazi the way the GOP and FOX […]
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Charlie Crist was in Fusion TV’s Miami studios to discuss his party switch with Jorge Ramos. Interesting stuff.
The latest anti-Charlie Crist TV commercial from the “Let’s Get to Work” Committee is the hardest hitting yet and has conjured up a significant amount of buzz around the state since it began running last week. The premise is that then Governor Charlie Crist “ran away” from the problems the state faced in 2008, 2009 […]
In the context of modern times and contemporary views, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson would both be viewed as social conservatives. But in many ways they were extremely progressive particularly on economics. Failing to maintain perspective on historical events is one of my great beefs with modern liberalism as I consider myself a progressive yet […]
We’ve seen a number of articles recently on the struggles of Florida’s signature industry, Citrus. However this one might be the most alarming and human of all, from yesterday’s New York Times. It is well worth a read.
Editors’ Note: This week we begin a new column, Monday Musings where our writers sound off on various topics related to the state of Florida. It is difficult in words to fully describe the mess the DCCC has made in Congressional District 13. Beginning with a campaign that flushed a double-digit lead down the […]
First off, thanks to our readers for making yesterday the biggest day in TFS history in terms of page views and the second biggest in terms of unique users. The combination of events that took place yesterday and the number of articles on the site from different perspectives helped drive the traffic. We have a […]
Fifteen years almost to day since the Florida Senate passed the Jeb Bush pet project A+ plan that brought public funding of private schools into our state, the Senate today passed the largest expansion of vouchers in the state’s history. Unlike the Florida House, where Democrats stuck together despite an aggressive lobbying effort by voucher […]
Editor’s Note: This is the first column we have published under an alias and that is not our regular practice and we will never have staff writers post articles or comments under an alias. But in this case we have made an exception regarding a story and we will for this particular writer in the […]
The Florida Squeeze 