Our friends at BlueAmp Channel take on Governor DeSantis in the wake of his humiliating Iowa performance.
Presidents Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and General Andrew Jackson were all obsessive about Florida. Between 1784 and 1819, several armed conflicts took place in Florida which involved the natives, runaway slaves, the British, the Spanish and of course the Americans. In this book we take a comprehensive deep-dive into Florida’s eventual conquest by the United States […]
Tom Keen’s Special Election victory in HD-35 was huge for Florida Democrats. To get a better picture of the breakdown in votes go to Matt Isbell’s indispensable MCI Maps and his breakdown of the race. I’ve been focused on the release of my latest book in hardcover on Friday (The American Conquest of Florida, Kindle […]
David Ingram claimed to be the first Englishman to set foot in Florida. Here is a short excerpt from my book Florida and the British Prior to the American Revolution (Albion Florida Book 1) A curious English traveler by the name of David Ingram claims to have hiked America in the 16th Century. In his […]
On this MLK Day, it is important to think about a time when a southern President who prior to 1957, had opposed Civil Rights effectively partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. The amount of scholarship developed along with screenplays/movies about this period has exploded recently. This also helps explain the gradual shift in terms of […]
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Day 2021, it is timely to recall the critical role Florida played in the passage of Civil Rights legislation- specifically St Augustine which the epicenter of MLK Jr. and Southern Christian Leadership Council (SLC) activity during the Senate filibuster of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Listen: The Florida […]
In the past we have discussed the critical importance of Martin Luther King Jr’s St Augustine campaign and its impact on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 2011, the City of St Augustine dedicated a memorial to the steps taken by one of King’s right-hand men, future Congressman, UN Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young. Here is […]
Through the year American Airlines has generally done fewer point-to-point type flights than other legacy US carriers after the hub and spoke system really developed in earnest in the 1980’s. But oddly, AA generally had Fort Lauderdale as a strange destination in-between hub and spoke for a ten year period between 1999 and 2009. So […]
I will be the first to admit despite being on the left politically, Christopher Rufo has intrigued me for a while and even appealed to my general sense that identity politics and anti-racism has run amok. Plus Rufo always seemed bohemian to me and intellectually-curious – a different type of “conservative.” But once he linked […]
What has been the source of speculation recently can be confirmed – not only is Avelo Airlines launching Lakeland service at Linder Field (LAL) but the airline seems increasingly likely to place a base at LAL. Per multiple sources Avelo which currently operates a crew and plane base in Orlando (MCO) is toying with the […]
The Florida Squeeze 