Libya

"Death and the Maiden" at Mosaic Theater: Mysteries Shroud This Prescient Study of Torture, Tyranny, and Democracy

Hussein, Amin, Gaddafi Star in Nando's South African Chicken Commercial (Video)

​You know that game where you pick five people living or dead to have over for dinner? We'd love to break bread with Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Bourdain, Ernest Hemingway, Julia Child, and Abraham Lincoln. South African chicken restaurant Nando's thinks it would be awesome to have a nice holiday din ... More >>

Herman Cain Makes a Stop in Broward; Believe it or Not, the Number Nine Was Used

Photo by Adele Hampton​GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain made an appearance with a jazz band outside the Wings Plus in Coral Springs this afternoon, and sure enough, he happened to mention his "9-9-9 plan."Many of the north Broward Republican figures were in attendance, as well as some more w ... More >>

Allen West Gets a "Defense Fund" From Joe Miller Over Reelection Worries

Harriet Tubman​Apparently there's great concern over Rep. Allen West's reelection bid, since Tea Party hero Joe Miller -- the guy who lost a Senate campaign in Alaska to a write-in candidate -- and his political action committee have started the "Allen West Defense Fund" to keep the congressman in ... More >>

Ann Coulter Thinks We're Bombing Egypt (Video)

​Local conservative provocateur Ann Coulter appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher last night, sparring with the Hollywood-elite comedian at every opportunity. The two are "friends" in real life (Maher introduced Coulter as "my first wife," and the two reportedly meet up for lunch from time to time ... More >>

Marco Rubio as Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential Pick a "Dream Ticket," Romney Adviser Says

Marco Rubio​Republican presidential candidates are going to need an incredible campaign strategy to dismantle President Obama in the 2012 election.Two of the biggest challenges are winning large swing states, like Florida, and figuring out how to get Hispanic voters to pick in their favor.The answ ... More >>

Soldier On

Marco Rubio​Republican presidential candidates are going to need an incredible campaign strategy to dismantle President Obama in the 2012 election.Two of the biggest challenges are winning large swing states, like Florida, and figuring out how to get Hispanic voters to pick in their favor.The answ ... More >>

Guns Online: No Permit Needed

Marco Rubio​Republican presidential candidates are going to need an incredible campaign strategy to dismantle President Obama in the 2012 election.Two of the biggest challenges are winning large swing states, like Florida, and figuring out how to get Hispanic voters to pick in their favor.The answ ... More >>

The Conservatives Who Can't Stand Rubio

Gage SkidmoreWatching the right flank.​When Marco Rubio talks foreign policy, it's hard not to get a little misty. The guy so obviously believes what he says and what he says are such good, noble, red-blooded and freedom-loving things that they could have been lifted from a fireside chat with Fran ... More >>

Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 2)

​Read the first installment of the Allen West interview here.New Times: Let's talk about the Ryan budget [introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)], which you supported in the House. [This proposal was passed by the House and at presstime was awaiting a vote in the Senate, although House leader ... More >>

Coral Ridge Ministries, Sodomy, and Death

​Imagine you are Jesus Christ and you're scuba diving. Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, you come upon a submarine. With your famed omniscience, you divine its nature, its contents, and its capabilities. This is the USS Florida, an Ohio-class vessel, fresh from the Libyan coast. It's almost 600 feet ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Photojournalist and "Restrepo" Codirector, Killed in Libya (UPDATED)

via the New York Times via Eddy Risch/European Pressphoto AgencyTim Hetherington, Restrepo flimmaker, who was killed covering the conflict in Libya.​Director Tim Hetherington, who was nominated for an Oscar for telling the story of an Army base named for a South Florida soldier, died while coverin ... More >>

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's "Restrepo" Memorialized a Local Soldier; Now the Soldier's Mom Has Her Own Fight

via the New York Times via Eddy Risch/European Pressphoto AgencyTim Hetherington, Restrepo flimmaker, who was killed covering the conflict in Libya.​Director Tim Hetherington, who was nominated for an Oscar for telling the story of an Army base named for a South Florida soldier, died while coverin ... More >>

Donald Trump's Foreign Policy: Kill the Iraqis, Take Their Oil

Photo by Liz DzuroWe want you to willingly give up your oil!​The foreign policy of a Donald Trump presidency began to take shape last weekend in Boca, where "The Donald" addressed a massed throng of Tea Partiers celebrating (celebrating?) tax day. Here's a slide show from the Tax Day Rally. T ... More >>

Allen West Is Pissed About Libya, Part II: Screw The Civilians, Unless They're Israeli

(Note: The above video is rife for unpacking, so I'm doing it over the course of three short articles. This is the second; the first is viewable here.)I would like to draw your attention to two discussions of civilians in the above video. In one instance, you've got Allen West discussing the Fogels ... More >>

South Florida Journalist and Two Others Freed In Libya

​Joe Raedle, a Getty Images photographer from South Florida, and two colleagues from Agence France-Presse who were all arrested in Libya on Saturday, have been released in Tripoli. On Tuesday night, Raedle's wife, Nancy San Martin, said that the Libyan government had released her husband. AFP anno ... More >>

Allen West Is Pissed About Libya, Part I: Apology To Obama?

Above you'll find Allen West, talking on Sunday at a the second anniversary picnic of Florida 9/12. He is speaking about President Barack Obama's weakness in the face of Muammar Gaddafi. "I don't care what anyone says -- you can't win a war from 30,000 feet," he says. Thank goodness we're not at war ... More >>

South Florida Journalist Missing In Libya

​Joe Raedle, a 45-year-old South Florida-based photographer for Getty Images has been missing since Saturday in Libya, along with two Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists, Dave Clark, 38, and Roberto Schmidt, 45. They were last heard from on Friday night, when they emailed AFP with their plans t ... More >>

Marco Rubio: Celebrity.

​This week, political junkies made much of Sen. Marco Rubio's sudden re-emergence in the national media after three months of almost total silence. Some people -- by which I mean "I" -- thought Rubio's invisibility was a sign that his celebrity had ebbed -- that he'd permanently ceded star power t ... More >>

Bully Getting Just Deserts in Australia = Sun-Sentinel's Top News Story

Belated happy birthday, Sun-Sentinel, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video. It reminds me of all the little twerps who used to pick on the shy, socially awkward kids at my elementary school, dancing and bobbing and weaving and showing off while they delivered their vicious little ... More >>

Adam Hasner Joins West in Mindless Bashing

With the rhetoric coming from Allen West and Adam Hasner, it seems only a matter of time before they start talking about protecting our precious bodily fluids against the Muslim "infiltration." Hasner​Hasner, likely U.S. Senate candidate and former Florida House majority leader who represe ... More >>

Still Dancing On the Ceiling

With the rhetoric coming from Allen West and Adam Hasner, it seems only a matter of time before they start talking about protecting our precious bodily fluids against the Muslim "infiltration." Hasner​Hasner, likely U.S. Senate candidate and former Florida House majority leader who represe ... More >>

Lauderpocalypse Now

The script of "Invasion of the Beach" passion play is getting a little worn around the edges.

Shareef Don't Like It

The Heavenly States and John Ralston

Slick Rick

Why won't those mean, old, sniping critics just quiet down?

Osama's Bull's-eye

Two Stuart men find a novel way to exact revenge on the notorious Saudi: Take him to court.

Irish Sting

Siobhan Browne talks about President Clinton's lies, love lost, and the beauty salon