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Jeb Bush Speaks in Texas Today; Should He Change His Name?

Jeb! Bush is speaking in Texas on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton is also slated to speak in Texas on Wednesday at a different event. Also in Texas on Wednesday: 2016 Presidential Hopeful Speculation!

Marco Rubio Is Going to Go Hard to the Hoop On Immigration In the Coming Weeks

Marco Rubio is about to go all-in on being The Guy For The GOPers in 2016, more so than he already is The Guy For The GOPers in 2016. And he's doing it via the thorny immigration reform policy which, just like every other damn thing in Washington, has split the parties asunder. According to Politi ... More >>

Jeb Bush's Message of Acceptance Shockingly Falls Flat at CPAC

Last week Marco Rubio spoke at the GOPers Paradise To Complain About The Black Fella, Them Freeloadin' Poor People, And Don't Touch My AK-47-Palooza (or CPAC, for short) where he basically told everyone that denying gay people simple civil rights doesn't at all make him a bigot, and that global warm ... More >>

Carlos Gimenez, Al Lamberti, and Alligator Gods Conspire Against Duke Basketball

The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times' crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm. (i.e., "Is that a rhino in the Magic Eye? Can you see the rhino? No, not a kiwi, a rhino. Just give me the damned vaporiz ... More >>

Marco Rubio Says Homosexuality Is a Sin, but He's Not Judging or Anything

On Wednesday, Marco Rubio sat down with Politico's Mike Allen at a Playbook breakfast and made it clear that he does know that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, even though he once said the age of the Earth is one of the great mysteries. But he's no scientist, man. So, hey. Rubio said that he sti ... More >>

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Marco Rubio Knows the Earth Is 4.5 Billion Years Old, Thank You Very Much

A few weeks ago, Marco Rubio was asked by GQ how old he thought the Earth was in one of them uppity gotcha questions the lamestream media love to throw at Republicans. Rubio's answer was, "I'm not a scientist, man." Then he rambled on about how the age of the Earth was a furtive mystery that has e ... More >>

Allen West Legal Circus Resumes, Draws Flies; Staff Issues Threat

Veteran's Day honored confessed torturer Allen West by seeing the courts closed, allowing the disgraced former officer and his attorneys a day off from further embarrassing themselves. The legal maneuvers they've employed in lawsuits against local elections officials to stave off defeat in last ... More >>

Allen West Down By 9 to Patrick Murphy In Latest Poll

According to a poll taken for the Democratic group House Majority PAC by Garin-Hart-Yang Research, Allen West is trailing challenger Patrick Murphy 52 percent to 43 percent. THAT RESEARCH FIRM IS COMMUNISSS!! Last week, West's campaign released their own poll showing the congressman leading Murphy ... More >>

Mitt Romney Accuses Obama of "Apology" for America After Attack in Libya

See also: Allen West Blames Obama For Libya AttackDuring his RNC speech, Mitt Romney mentioned Afghanistan like none times. But today, following the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and at the embassy in Cairo, where U.S. diplomats were killed, Romney decided it was a good time to get all D ... More >>

Obama Bear-Hug Pizza Guy Says His Shop Is Now Facing Boycotts

Democrats hate freedom and love terrorists! You wanna do it up like a real 'Merican? Do what Republicans do: Call for boycotting a small business. AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! Scott Van Duzer, the Fort Pierce owner of Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant, who recently gained fame for bear-hugging Presid ... More >>

Steve Southerland Swam With Skinny Dipping Congressmen in Sea of Galilee, According to Sources

According to multiple sources reporting to Politico, Republican Florida Rep. Steve Southerland, Panama City, went to Israel on a fact-finding mission last year with a bunch of GOP freshmen congressmen and then went swimming while others went skinny dipping at the place Jesus supposedly walked on wat ... More >>

Connie Mack Is Just Openly Insulting, Grabbing Reporters Now (Video)

Another chapter has been written in Rep. Connie Mack's devolution from a lackluster congressman into a sneering, whining toadstool of a Senate candidate, and it's a stupid one. It started, more or less, back in April, when Mack's father, former Sen. Connie Mack III, wrote a letter to the Tampa Bay T ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S.economy, one barrel of oil at a time.

Rubio Chief of Staff Still Receiving Cash From Former Lobbying Firm

Cesar Conda, Sen. Marco Rubio's chief of staff, received  $50,000 to $100,000 from the lobbying firm he used to work for, according to an investigation by campaign finance website Republic Report.Though Conda left the firm before taking the job at the head of Rubio's office, Rubio spokesman Ale ... More >>

Mitt Romney Beating Obama in New Florida Poll; Rubio VP Pick Would Boost Romney

Took a little while to get to because Quinnipiac University's website is being duct-taped together today, but here are the results of its latest poll, taken May 15 to 21 with a 2.4-percentage-point margin of error.Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama 47 to 41 percent in ... More >>

Marco Rubio Not Being "Seriously Considered" For VP Spot, Favor Going to "Incredibly Boring White Guys," Says Report

It might be fun for people to talk about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio getting picked to be Mitt Romney's running mate, but one group that isn't talking about it is... Mitt Romney's campaign, according to an article from Politico.The article compares the Romney campaign to that of John McCain in 200 ... More >>

Fox News Accuses "Mole" of Larceny; Fox News Steals Stuff All the Time

Renegade Fox News employee Joe Muto got a lot of attention when he joined Gawker and started writing dispatches from the inside of the Murdoch empire. He got only one post in before he was found out and fired from Fox, with a follow-up letter from the legal folks being sent to Gawker threatening leg ... More >>

Allen West Officially Not the Number-One Target of the Communist/Progressive/Democrat Party

Whenever anyone reports on Congressman Allen West saying something ridiculous, he likes to declare that it makes him "the number-one target of the Democrat Party of the United States of America" because they hate freedom, Abraham Lincoln, and people who tell the truth.But a Politico story& ... More >>

Marco Rubio Still Saying He Won't Accept VP Nomination; He's the Favorite Anyway; You Can (Literally) Bet on It

​An Ohio television interview scheduled to air Sunday will feature Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio reiterating that he isn't interested in the vice presidential nomination."I'm not going to be the vice president, and I'm not running for a national office," Rubio told the Ohio News Network. Whe ... More >>

Allen West Turns Black History Month Into Attack on Democrats

​Last Wednesday, Congressman Allen West took to the House floor to commemorate Black History Month. As the first black congressman from Florida since Reconstruction, he was in a unique position to do so. West had hundreds of years of history he could have talked about, including 51 years of his ow ... More >>

Allen West Goes on CBS to Criticize Bill He Didn't Fight Against

​CBS News had a story today about a fee built into the two-month payroll tax cut extension approved by the House just before Christmas -- to help pay for the cut, legislators added a tenth of a percent fee to loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Rep. Allen West was featured in the piece as " ... More >>

Allen West: Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels Would "Be Very Proud of the Democrat Party"

Rep. Allen West, the self-proclaimed Harriet Tubman.​The sun rose again this morning, meaning another entry in the expanding catalog of Shit Allen Says.Let's preface Rep. Allen West's most recent outlandish statement with the disclaimer he gave shortly after his explanation of the Democratic Party ... More >>

Newsmax Reporting Donald Trump's Book Sales; Hasn't Mentioned He Dropped the Debate

​UPDATE: Newsmax figured it out at 3:11 p.m., posting it in a not-so-prominent location.Either Newsmax is the only national media outlet in the U.S. that doesn't know Donald Trump has pulled out of moderating their debate, or they're having a real tough time crafting their damage-control plan ... More >>

Allen West on Lois Frankel: "Maybe She Likes Running Against Black Guys"

​Rep. Allen West was the only politician to place in the contest for Washington, D.C.,'s Funniest Celebrity Contest on Wednesday, drawing most of the attention to his jokes about being a black conservative.West's suggestion that former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel -- his possible opponent in ... More >>

Marco Rubio: Washington Post Story "Misses the Point Completely"

​Last week, the Washington Post published its exposé on how Sen. Marco Rubio "embellished" his family history, and after a few days, no one's really sure what the hell happened there.The Post validates the reasoning behind the article correcting Rubio's family history -- which involves dates befo ... More >>

Democrats Call on Allen West Censure and Apology, Neither of Which Are Likely

​Patrick Murphy, the Democrat who wants to take over Rep. Allen West's seat in 2012, says West's attack on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz shows he's "incapable of controlling himself," and says he should face a censure.Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith today demanded an apology from West, ... More >>

Former Overpriced-Steak Salesman Craig Miller Enters Senate Race

Craig Miller​Craig Miller, the former Ruth's Chris Steak House CEO, announced he's running for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Bill Nelson.Miller, running as a Republican, has decided to enter quite a busy field of candidates wishing to overtake Nelson, including Adam Hasner, Georg ... More >>

Bill Clinton References Jim Crow Laws in Florida à la Debbie Wasserman Schultz

​Even though Debbie Wasserman Schultz's comment that Florida's voting laws were Republican attempts at Jim Crow laws led to her half-apology, former President Bill Clinton made a comment along the same lines yesterday.As a speaker at the Campus Progress National Conference, part of Clinton's comme ... More >>

Alcee Hastings Faces Ethics Investigation; Allegedly Too Touchy-Feely With Ex-Staffer

Wikimedia CommonsIt's sex-scandal o'clock in Congress.​Miramar's Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings faces a House ethics investigation after he was allegedly a little too hands-on with a former female staffer.Winsome Packer -- who worked on the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation chaired by Ha ... More >>

Allen West Placed in GOP Incumbent Protection Program

The RNCC thinks Allen West is going to need some help getting re-elected​The National Republican Congressional Committee says they're not giving out free campaign money to Republicans facing a tough re-election campaign anymore -- you have to earn it.That's why they started the Patriot Program ... More >>

Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz a Self-Hating Jew?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz​Oh, probably not. But such insinuations are the stuff of American politics in 2011. This particular insinuation is part of the fallout from Obama's speech on the Middle East last week -- that boring, almost content-free speech that in a saner clime would have attracted con ... More >>

The Sun Sentinel Says: Stay Godless, Liberals

Deities, like the one above, should stay out of politics.​An editorial by the lovely Mary Sanchez, of Kansas City, appeared this week beneath the Tribune Co.'s various mastheads, including that of our own Sun Sentinel. It was a well-intentioned editorial, but a sloppy one, and the way in which it ... More >>

Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon Shows Flexibility on 2012 Presidential Primary, But Still Flexes Some Muscle

via APHouse Speaker Dean Cannon is bold but bendable on the 2012 presidential primary date​Despite the farcical sideshow of Donald Trump's recent antics, the 2012 presidential election is actually a serious and important issue. And for the second consecutive presidential election cycle, Florida's ... More >>

South Carolina, Iowa GOP Chairs Lash Out at Florida Over Primary Date

via PoliticoKaren Floyd says Florida should be punished for violating RNC rules.​Two Republican officials blasted Florida today for refusing to move its primary date, which is set for January 31, in violation of the rules of both Republican and Democratic parties. It's some of the toughest talk we ... More >>

Allen West On Keith Olbermann: Vengeance Is His

I'm digging up what one source called "game changer" in the continuing Scott Rothstein saga today, so in the meantime I'll give you the Reader's Digest version of this weekend's Allen West speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday. West hit a lot of ... More >>

The Constitution Is Just For Christians: Allen West at CPAC

Rep. Allen West gave the keynote address at CPAC on Saturday, and was typically effective. Politico likened his performance to the throwing of "red meat" to the massed conservatives. It's a good metaphor. His speech drew the loudest applause in its bloodiest moments -- those moments in which West de ... More >>

AOL-HuffPo Merger Threatens Tea Party Presence in "Internet World," Says Allen West

via the New York TimesAllen West says the AOL-HuffPo merger threatens tea party Internet presence.​Seizing the opportunity to rally his tea party troops, Allen West sounded off about AOL's $315 million purchase of left-leaning Huffington Post, insinuating that the large-scale merger is a threat to ... More >>

So, Who's Lying About Kendrick Meek and Bill Clinton's Secret Deal?

Meek and Clinton appear both to be telling, at best, half-truths.​Skipping ahead to the conclusion, here are the liars: Bill Clinton a little, Politico.com some, and Kendrick Meek a lot.First off, Politico.com, which broke the story yesterday that Clinton supposedly urged Meek to quit the Senate r ... More >>

Kendrick Meek Bitch-Slaps Bill Clinton, Doesn't Want to Be Seen as Quitter (UPDATED)

Meek denied reports that Clinton wanted him to quit.​Touring Florida in support of Democratic candidates last week, Bill Clinton quietly pressured senatorial candidate Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race and endorse independent candidate Charlie Crist, according to Politico.com. By throwing the ... More >>

UPDATED: Kendrick Meek Addressing Clinton Report

Palm Beach Post​Kendrick Meek has called a press conference for 9:30 p.m.-- i.e. right now -- to address the report that Bill Clinton advised him to drop out of the race in a bid to put Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in a bid to keep the Senate Democrats in power. & ... More >>

On Jeff Greene's Yacht, There Are Five Simple Rules

The yacht where Florida's Senate candidate offered celebrities a chance at redemption.​Senate candidate Jeff Greene has taken a beating in the national press this week for all the mayhem that has occurred aboard his 145-foot yacht, the Summerwind. Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson told Spor ... More >>

George LeMieux Congratulates Self for Leaping Over Low Bar of Expectations

There's the pride of Broward County, George LeMieux, talking about the terrible suspense as he waited to hear whether his best friend, Charlie Crist, and Crist's chief of staff (a position LeMieux held the year before) were going to appoint him to be a U.S. senator.It's a heartwarming story and an i ... More >>

Reporter Turned Congressional Aide for Broward Congresswoman Reverses Field Again

Former Politico reporter Jonathan Allen heard all the predictable "liberal media" howls late this past year after he left to join a committee for West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All that grief only to leave the Wasserman Schultz office after a mere 40 days -- and go back to jour ... More >>

Name Game: Sarah Palin Worship Blog Fears All Jonathans in Wasserman Schultz Office

Flickr​Every so often, there's a news event that suggests (or proves?) that the modern media is making the world an even more confusing place. This week, the office of West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced that former Politico.com writer, Jonathan Allen, had been hired as a ... More >>

Louisiana Governor Is the Latest to Learn Curse of the '72 Dolphins

Flickr: dsb nolaJindal​The New Orleans Saints are having a splendid season, but despite their 12-0 record, they're still a long way from the kind of immortality enjoyed by the '72 Dolphins. But it seems no one bothered to tell Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who in public remarks today claimed that h ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Now a Lightning Rod in Party Politics Over Health Care

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyMove over, Alan Grayson. There's another Florida Democrat who's not afraid to ruffle Republican feathers -- West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In yesterday MSNBC segment (roughly 3:15 of the video above) she w ... More >>

Technical Difficulties: Elderly Senate Candidate Adjusts Antennae on His YouTube

Here's a quandary: What do you do if you announce your candidacy for higher office, but nobody reports it? (Or at least nobody besides Juice?) If you're Bob Smith, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire now semi-retired in Sarasota, you sorta pretend you never made the first announcement, then... ma ... More >>

An Idea for the Democrats in the Senate Race: One-on-One Hoops, for All the Marbles

Seriously, wouldn't that be fun? Kendrick Meek versus Dan Gelber. Both were college athletes in another sport: Meek played linebacker at Florida A&M, while Gelber rowed for the crew team at Tufts University. And yes, I know that linebacker translates better to basketball and that at age 42 Meek ... More >>