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Marco Rubio Has Angered GOP Rep. Peter King With His Marco Rubioness

Back in January, New Face Of The Hope Of New GOP Future Marco Rubio voted against the $60.4 billion in aid for Sandy relief bill because O MAH GAWD ALL DEH PORK! And recently, Charisma Boy! flew to New York to raise campaign money (maybe also selling those awful Rubio Thirsty bottles) But at least ... More >>

Kratom Comes to Florida: Is the Next Big Drug Craze Dangerous?

Morning Joe Filming Live at Racks in Boca Raton

Political wonks and early risers take note! Morning Joe, the MSNBC early show hosted by the world's most liberal conservative (Joe Scarborough) and the world's most conservative liberal (Mika Brzezinski), is coming to south Florida for two live broadcasts in correlation with the big Presidential deb ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez Might Be Traded to the Marlins, According to Keith Olbermann

According to former ESPN/MSNBC/Current TV personality, Keith Olbermann, the Miami Marlins have been in discussion with the New York Yankees on a possible trade for third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Olbermann says his sources claim that one possible scenario would be for the Yankees to pay for a portion ... More >>

How Allen West Uses the Military and Ignores Its Biggest Problems

The political entity that is Congressman Allen West would not exist without the military. It is his sole qualification for office, and he touts it at every opportunity. You would be hard-pressed to find any public statement from "the Colonel" that doesn't mention his military service, and he's justi ... More >>

Allen West, Champion of Constitution, Says Chris Hayes' Free Speech Should Be Punished

MSNBC host Chris Hayes did something dangerous last weekend -- he tried to think. And Congressman Allen West isn't happy about it.In a weekend in which cable news channels filled hours of time with teary-eyed flag-waving, Hayes wanted to have a discussion about the word hero."It is very difficult to ... More >>

George Zimmerman Makes Website, PayPal Donation Account; Here's What They Look Like

Good news! There is finally a way to help pay for George Zimmerman's living expenses while he hides from the angry hordes seeking "justice" for Trayvon Martin. It looks like the site went up late yesterday, and MSNBC's Mara Schiavocampo confirmed with Zimmerman's attorneys that it was in fact him.Th ... More >>

Rick Scott Hits 12 Minutes Worth of Softballs on MSNBC, Avoids "Ponzi Scheme" Question

msnbc.comRick Scott, happy to be here.​When the subject of Rick Scott comes up on the typically left-leaning MSNBC network, it's typically to be berated on Rachel Maddow's nighttime show.Invite him onto Morning Joe with former Republican Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough, however, and the govern ... More >>

Joyce Kaufman-Induced Broward Schools Lockdown Lands Woman Two Years in Prison

BSOEllisa Martinez​The woman who caused an FBI investigation after sending threats to right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman -- leading to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools -- was sentenced today to two years in prison.Ellisa Martinez was arrested in November after emailing and cal ... More >>

Dalia Dippolito Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

Dalia Dippolito​Dalia Dippolito -- caught on camera two years ago promising to pay a hit man to kill her husband -- was sentenced to 20 years in prison today by Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath.UPDATE: Click here for details on Dippolito's sentencing.There wasn't much ambiguity in Dippolito's murde ... More >>

Bank of America Forecloses on Its Own Branch, Providing Much-Needed Anecdote

​Our neck of the woods is still making news these days in the building-bubble world: Yesterday's housing numbers saw prices in South Florida hit a new low, and many of the houses that are being sold are foreclosures. Some routine housing-market data, then, but wait... we need an anecdote! How else ... More >>

Nicole Sandler Arrested for Heckling at Allen West Town Hall, Says She Was Maced in Jail (UPDATED with BSO Report)

Read on for the BSO report of what happened in the jail.On Tuesday night, Allen West held a "town hall" event in Fort Lauderdale, at which he took only preapproved questions. He got started by complaining about bloggers who want to "skin him alive," then got held up by a man screaming "What about ba ... More >>

Ann Coulter Defends Her Radioactive Love

​A few last words on Coulter's radiation fetish. Two weeks ago, she claimed ionizing radiation could act as a cancer vaccine, and that nobody died of radiation poisoning at Chernobyl. Then she appeared on the The O'Reilly Factor to defend the column. Last week, she devoted a second column to the p ... More >>

The Tea Party Is the Muslim Brotherhood of America? You Betcha

MSNBC's Chris Matthews made a remark yesterday comparing the Tea Party of America to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. "So the Muslim Brotherhood has a parallel role here with the Tea Party," he said. "They're the ones who keep you honest and decide whether you've stayed too long?" That's what  ... More >>

Wasserman Schultz on Better Political Rhetoric: "It Starts With Us"

​Last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told us she was in the room when Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes. Last night on MSNBC, she said Giffords has been making exciting improvements, including, at one point, somehow giving her husband a neck massage. This weekend, the usually pointed congres ... More >>

Sunday Politics: Q&A With Tea Partier on Health Care

The Tea Party has demonized health-care reform -- or Obamacare, as it calls it -- to the point that the group seems to believe that it alone is going to destroy America. Tea Party signs​They've disrupted Congressional town hall meetings, screamed about sociali ... More >>

The Tucson Shooting: An Open Letter To Joyce Kaufman

The following is an open letter to WFTL-850 FM radio host Joyce Kaufman, whose incendiary political rhetoric included a Tea Party rally remark that, "If ballots don't work, bullets will": Dear Joyce, How does it feel when you hear about the horrific shootings in Tucso ... More >>

Breaking: Joyce Kaufman Quits Allen West Job

Right-wing radio talker Joyce Kaufman -- whose July 4 call for "bullets" in favor of ballots has been linked to yesterday's threat that led to the countywide lockdown on all Broward County schools -- is on the air now and promising a statement of explanation. Kaufman and West ... More >>

Oil Spill an Occasion for a Political Game of Twister

Sen. George LeMieux loves to invoke the future of his children among his reasons for wanting to slow down federal spending and shrink government. But if that really is what drives his political actions, doesn't the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico pose a far greater risk to his children's future? And ... More >>

Allen West Rips GOP Chair Over Comments About Appealing to Blacks

In remarks made during an appearance this weekend on MSNBC, congressional candidate Allen West had sharp criticism for the chairman of his party, Michael Steele, over Steele's response to a question about the Republicans' appeal to black voters.After hearing a quote from Steele about the party havi ... More >>

Victim's Refusal to Cooperate Means No Charges in Neo-Nazi Stabbing at Ritz

Photo: MSNBC via FlickrThe neo-Nazis seem able to forgive an occasional stabbing between members of the Master Race.​The Palm Beach State Attorney's Office has elected not to file charges in a stabbing that took place in October at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan during a speech by a neo-Nazi histor ... More >>

Fraud Celebrities a More Disgusting Cottage Industry Than Hollywood Celebrities

Marc DreierWhy didn't the financial press adequately inform the American public that its national economy was a colossal scam? Maybe because this meltdown has given the financial press the Story of a Lifetime. They're positively basking in it. CNBC's enjoying record ratings -- the financial news cha ... More >>

Madoff Plea Somehow Not Quite Enough

This morning, MSNBC interviewed one of the many, many victims of Bernard Madoff, who entered his guilty plea to 11 felony charges this morning so he can go to prison to die. The victim, Peter Moskowitz, asks a good question: Is Madoff being a good general, jumping on the proverbial grenade to save a ... More >>

Biden-Palin Debate Rundown

'Michael the Black Man' Trashes Barack Obama

The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.

The Paul and Young Ron Experience

How to sit around cracking jokes with your drinking buddies – and get paid handsomely

Big Wind in Boca

The Party Was Over Before It Began

Stacey & Friends

Four characters in search of a talk show

Curse of the Dead

Anna Nicole's ghost could go home at last — if some trial hotshots get their way

Sid Rosenberg, Miami's Imus Connection

For All You Political Junkies ...

Bringing TV Glitter to Our Town

Stacey Honowitz yaks it up on the evening talk-show circuit

Hotter than Larry the Cable Guy, Too

Baghdad Boy

What was really behind Farris Hassan's trip to Iraq? Ask his father, who has a fascinating and checkered past.

The Bad America

Bill Maher continues to coax controversy

Paperless Trail

What About Next Time?

In the Name of Mr. Burns

Exxxxxcellent!

Back in Black

Vowels Optional

KMFDM rails and rhymes against right-wing tyranny

Best News Anchor

Craig Stevens WSVN-TV (Channel 7)

Political Therapy

Talking war with dissident Jim Mullins is good for a battle-scarred psyche

Beach Head

At the Winter Music Conference, P. Diddy blows up dance music while the U.S. blows up Iraq

Letters for March 20-26, 2003

Watered-down Praise

Letters for January 30, 2003

A prosecution complex

Letters for January 23, 2003

More Picking on Slick Rick

Card Shark

A Delray businessman's cards create an international stir

Minority Madness

Wisecracking Democrats in Tallahassee were steamrollered during the presidential contest. But they didn't take it lying down.

Down For the Recount

Ride with us through a subtropical wonderland where troops rally for a new ballot

Sermon on the Mount

Impeachment as Cache

If there's anyone who can feel Bill Clinton's pain, it's ousted-judge-turned-congressman Alcee Hastings