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Medicare Fraud Is Sweetest Crime in South Florida

Obama Got It All Wrong With California Attorney General; Florida Attorney General Is Way Hotter

President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday night to apologize for calling her "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country" during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Thursday afternoon in Atherton, California. And rightly so. Obama ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Voucher Medicare Plan Would Be Costly for Florida, According to Report

According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a voucher plan for Medicare -- like the one Mittington Romnom RoboRomney and his young ward P90Ryan are proposing -- would cost Florida patients more than $100 million. But since the Mittbot is promising instant jobs to everyone as soon as he ... More >>

Federal Tax Loopholes: They're Like a Mafia Protection Scheme Where Big Corporations Profit

Allen West Rips Patrick Murphy for Supporting Same Medicare Cuts He Does

Socialist hunter and conspiracy uncoverer Allen West voted for the Paul Ryan budget cuts that would affect Medicare. He also said those who oppose his backing of  Ryan's plan are totally going to Kamikaze themselves. "I will be supporting the House GOP Budget Plan as authored by my colleague B ... More >>

Romney Volunteer Tells Florida Elderly That Muslim Obama Will Get Rid of Medicare

With the election a mere weeks away and the polls tightening ever so much, campaign workers and volunteers are burning the midnight oil to get their man a November victory. They're knocking on doors, registering folks to vote, and making phone calls to educate the masses on the qualities of their c ... More >>

Ryan, Obama, Romney, and Biden's Moms: Too Many Matriarchs in the Race (VIDEO)

Preparing for the vice presidential debate Thursday in Kentucky, Paul Ryan was in Fort Lauderdale yesterday with his mom, Betty Douglas. Indeed, the 78-year-old made the campaign's nine millionth campaign fundraising call. Well, I am sick and tired of moms in this election. Just a few months ag ... More >>

Paul Ryan's Mom Is Now the Florida Seniors for Romney Chairwoman

Things are not going so hot for one Mittington Willard Mitt Romnom Dog Torturer Mittbot RoboRomney Romney down here in Florida. He's trailing in polls, and old people hate his running mate. Ah! But guess who's back-back, back again? That's right. Betty Douglas -- Paul Ryan's Enthusiastically Wavin ... More >>

Paul Ryan Introduces Himself to America With Lies

See also: Paul Ryan Isn't Helping Mitt in Florida, Hasn't Actually Run the Numbers on Budget Plan; Paul Ryan Talks Medicare, Uses Mom as Mascot to Make His Point; Poll: Floridians Not Down With Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan; What's Really on Paul Ryan's iPodAfter coming to Florida to introduce ... More >>

Charlie Crist Formally Endorses Obama, Blasts GOP

With the RNC kicking off tomorrow -- instead of today (thanks to that freedom hating storm, Isaac!) -- rumors began to swirl that Charlie Crist was going to formally announce his change to the Democratic party in an op-ed piece for the Tampa Bay Times. Crist didn't technically announce his party c ... More >>

Poll: Floridians Not Down With Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan

See also: Paul Ryan Talks Medicare, Uses Mom As Mascot to Make His Point He trotted out his mom like Sebastian the Ibis last week in front of thousands of retirees to tell them his Medicare plan is going to be a good thing, and that President Obama's plan will turn you over to a panel of bureaucrat ... More >>

Paul Ryan Talks Medicare, Uses Mom As Mascot to Make His Point

Paul Ryan made his campaign stop in Florida this weekend where he introduced his mom to a bunch of old rich retired white people to make his point that he won't take away their Medicare. The spry, enthusiastic 78-year old Betty Ryan Douglas trotted out on stage with her son and was all, I got n ... More >>

Paul Ryan Isn't Helping Mitt in Florida, Hasn't Actually Run the Numbers on Budget Plan

See also:Paul Ryan Stays Away as Mitt Romney Hits Florida This Week; Paul Ryan Will Talk About Medicare When He Does Eventually Come to Florida A Republican-Democratic run poll done in a dozen battleground states found that Paul Ryan gave Mitt Romney a slight bump everywhere but Florida. T ... More >>

Paul Ryan Will Talk About Medicare When He Does Eventually Come to Florida

See also:Paul Ryan Stays Away as Mitt Romney Hits Florida This WeekWhen Mitt Romney hit Florida earlier this week, his running mate, Paul Ryan, went to Iowa instead. The Romney campaign insisted that they just wanted to spread the wealth (haha -- see what we did there?) and get things cranking with ... More >>

Paul Ryan Stays Away as Mitt Romney Hits Florida This Week

Mitt Romney is hitting Florida starting tonight for a fundraiser being hosted by his car-dealership-owning friends. It's all part of his swing-state bus tour in which Mitt plans to make stops in St. Augustine and Miami and being interviewed by Spanish-language radio station Radio Mambi. Mitt cancele ... More >>

Six Reasons Allen West Is Wrong About the Health Care Law Being Useless

Congressman Allen West, along with anybody else up for election in November, is really ticked off about the Supreme Court upholding the terrible progressive Marxist Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.West, however, is the only one calling it the "Patient Protection Unaffordable Tax Act (PPUT ... More >>

Koch Industries PAC Donates to Adam Hasner and Connie Mack

Remember 2010, when the Medicare scooter-riding lunatic fringe of the Republican Party swept to power? Two years later, the people who gave you Allen West and Michele Bachman have stopped making daily headlines, but their influence is still strong.Billionaire oil barons Charles and David Koch, the s ... More >>

South Florida at Center of National Medicare Fraud Crackdown

The Department of Justice this week announced a nationwide crackdown on Medicare fraud that snagged 107 people for an alleged $452 million in false billing. The Department of Health and Human Services reported it was the largest group of false billings targeted at one time in the history of their Me ... More >>

Democrats, in General, Win PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2011

​The thought that Rep. Paul Ryan and Republicans wanted to "end Medicare" is now as legitimate as using the phrase "death panels" or "government takeover" when referring to Obamacare, thanks to Democrats winning PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year."The "end Medicare" idea apparently started with Rep ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quote a Finalist for PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year"

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz​Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a finalist for PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year" award(?), thanks to her accusation that Republicans want "Jim Crow laws."Wasserman Schultz joins President Obama -- who was nominated twice ... More >>

OCCUPIED Amendment From Ted Deutch "Totally Bans Corporate Money" in Campaigns

maryannaville.com​It looks like all those hippies hanging out in parks may have actually sparked an idea.Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch -- who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties -- introduced the "Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democr ... More >>

Two of South Florida's Fortune 500 Companies Land on List of "Corporate Tax Dodgers"

Good one, Mr. Moneybags.​Out of the five Fortune 500 companies based in South Florida, two of them managed to bank on a negative tax rate over the past three years, earning them a spot on a list of the country's "corporate tax dodgers."Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 comp ... More >>

Tea Party Outdoes Rick Scott -- Unveils Prewritten Faxes to Send Wasserman Schultz

This is what the future looks like.​Remember how old-school that Gov. Rick Scott was when he asked his supporters to send out prewritten letters about himself to newspapers around the state? Well, he has been outdone by the South Florida Tea Party, which is embracing the height of 1980s telecommun ... More >>

Allen West on NPR: Do We Really Need the Justice Department?

How important is the Justice Department, really?​Yesterday, NPR host Robert Siegel interviewed U.S. Rep. Allen West about the federal debt fight. West, a member of the House Tea Party caucus, is adamantly opposed to raising the debt limit. He doesn't want the U.S. government to borrow any more mon ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh's Iced Tea : Liberal Repellent?

​Say what you will about our neighbor Rush Limbaugh's politics, his big mouth, or his criminal history -- the guy knows how to shill product. So when he unveiled his line of iced teas last week -- called Two if By Tea and designed to capitalize on Tea Party patriotism -- he wasted no time

Palm Beach County Tea Party Director Quits After Chairman Rags on Rep. Paul Ryan

​Standing up for what you believe in apparently isn't in the South Florida Tea Party manifest.Pam Wohlschlegel -- the director of the Palm Beach County chapter of the South Florida Tea Party -- called it quits after Chairman Everett Wilkinson declared House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare ... More >>

Allen West Stumped for Losing Candidate in Tight New York House Race

Allen West supported the Medicare plan that's now under fire.​Yesterday, Democrat Kathy Hochul won a closely watched special congressional election in a heavily Republican district in western New York. Why should Sunshine State voters care? Democrats are spinning Hochul's upset victory as evidence ... 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 >>

Sen. Jim Waldman's Criminal Buddy Back In Hot Water

The amazing Hertz, left, partying with Sen. Waldman before he went to prison​From Medicare fraud to the foreclosure mess, Brad Hertz seems to bring trouble wherever he goes. After Hertz, a very close friend and business associate of Democratic state Sen. Jim Waldman, got out of federal prison ... More >>

Ilene Lieberman Is Back in the Building!

Lieberman is second from left ​Ilene Lieberman, after months of no-shows and call-ins to Broward County Commission meetings, has finally returned to public service. She's on the dais now -- after fellow Commissioner Chip LaMarca made it an issue last week and m ... More >>

Fake Rick Scott Versus Real Rick Scott: Both Jackasses?

Medicare fraud, schmedicare fraud!​We've been spouting our concerns about our new governor, Rick Scott, since long before he was elected. The man was behind a giant Medicare fraud case. But it just goes to prove that even when you're scheming to bilk money from unsuspecting citizens, Floridians wi ... More >>

Rick Scott's Plan: Blame the Unemployed, Cut Drug Oversight, and Other Goodies

​You can't say the guy's not trying. Florida's favorite baldheaded former fraudster, Governor-elect Rick Scott, has been tossing off bits of a new economic plan. Not surprisingly, most of his talking points involve limiting government involvement and letting us little guys pull like mad on our boo ... More >>

Tea Party Lawyer Marianne Moran Campaigns for Power to Repeal Federal Laws

Moran at a Tea Party protest against Charlie Crist's U.S. Sugar "bailout."​Marianne Moran is a lawyer in West Palm Beach and a member of Tea Party in Action and Balance Our Budget Now. Through her work on the Florida Senate, she met Randy Barnett, a Georgetown law professor who is credited with de ... More >>

Mexican Macro-Economics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

Concede? Hell No. Secede!

​It just happened. Florida has officially elected the man who oversaw the greatest Medicare fraud in U.S. history as its governor. You might think I would welcome this sort of thing. I remember when I covered the 2000 recount thinking at the end of it, after the U.S. Supreme Court gave t ... More >>

Klein Challenges South Florida Seniors to Choose Between Social Security and Allen West

FlickrRon Klein​For seniors who enjoy Social Security checks and Medicare coverage, Congressman Ron Klein has a message: Vote for me if you want to keep those entitlements. Vote for Allen West if you're willing to lose them. That's the theme of an ad Klein's campaign released this morning. It quot ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel Tries for Middle Ground in Tea Party Coverage

Flickr: Pargon​Trying to reason with the tea party is an exercise in futility, but that didn't stop outgoing Sun-Sentinel editor Earl Maucker from making it the subject of his Sunday column, the point of which is... (I'm struggling here)... to show how hard it is to please readers? Writes Maucker: ... More >>

In Broward and Palm Beach Hospitals, 266 Patients Treated for Injuries from Haiti Quake

Flickr: IFRC​After the earthquake struck Haiti, there wasn't time to decide exactly what role South Florida hospitals would play in treating victims. Nor was there time to figure out how those facilities would be paid in instances where the victims were Haitian citizens. But three weeks after the ... More >>

Swine and the Seniors: A Frightening Couple

flickr user: Brent and MarilynnSwine fear has arrived.​South Florida's senior citizen population has had a rough few months. What with the fear-mongering about death panels in Obama's health care plan, and worries that cuts in Medicare will leave them penniless on bingo night, the news has not bee ... More >>

10 Best Quotes From Yesterday's Health Care Forum in Palm Beach

Only one person had a sign​Yesterday's Health Care Forum at the Palm Beach County Government Center, sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, was a fairly subdued affair. A total of two protesters  turned up outside the center in support of Progressive Democrats of America: The ... More >>

R.I.P., Diogee

Rx for Plunder

Looting the Treasury was never so easy

Karl and Me

What's a Little Medicare Fraud Between Friends?

Candidate Jim Waldman makes excuses for his ex-con buddy.

Moby for Veep

John Kerry should hit the decks for his running mate

Deutsch Marks

He's raised a lot of money in his bid for the Senate, but from whom?

Troubled Endings

For-profit hospice care provider Vitas Healthcare sacrifices patient needs for the bottom line

Letters

Cutting the Healing

The emotional triage performed by therapists for the severely disabled is being eliminated by budget cutbacks