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Obama Unveils Sweeping Gun Control Proposals

With Florida now numero uno in concealed gun permits and with thousands showing up to the gun show in Fort Lauderdale this past weekend comes today's news conference held by President Obama that aims to anger lots and lots of Floridians who just want to be able to buy themselves an assault rifle so ... More >>

LIVE BLOG: Rumble in Boca 2012, Obama and Romney Presidential Debate!

We're live-blogging tonight's debate right here, on this page. Bookmark the link and follow our updates after the jump. 

Charlie Crist Goes Full Democrat at DNC (Still Isn't a Democrat)

Remember when Charlie Crist used to be a Republican? Well Charlie Crist does. And he thinks it used to be pretty great. And then Barack Obama went and hugged him and got his government take over stank all over Crist and ruined a perfectly good Republican. Because of this treachery, the GOP brande ... More >>

Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair Is the Most Old-Person Thing to Ever Happen in Florida

There was a lot speculation on who the big supersecret "surprise" speaker at the RNC would be. Would it be Sarah Palin? Tim Tebow? A hologram of Ronald Reagan? Perhaps a James Polk puppet? WRONG. Because, as it turns out, the big secret surprise guest that got all the GOPers in a tizzy wa ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

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

Leap Second to Be Added Today; Will Florida Resist?

In yet another example of gross government overreach and excessive bureaucratic regulation, officials have announced that today, June 30, will be one second longer than a normal Earth day. At 11:59:59 p.m. tonight, the officially recognized time will receive an extra second before rolling over to mi ... More >>

Allen West Just Quoting Everybody All Willy-Nilly, Misquotes Lincoln on Lincoln Day

​Earlier this month, Congressman Allen West said he was "not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff." On Saturday, he said Democratic leadership should "get the hell out of the United States of America." Those comments, at the Palm Beach County GOP's Lincoln Day dinner, got plenty of play on Tw ... More >>

Allen West History Revision: Attributes Ronald Reagan Abortion Quote to Abraham Lincoln

​If you didn't know about Abraham Lincoln's strong anti-abortion policies while he was in the White House, it's probably because they didn't exist.Rep. Allen West, however -- the former history teacher -- decided to deal an anti-abortion quote to the annual March for Life at the National Mall in W ... More >>

If Pizza Is a Vegetable, So Is This Burger

Flickr user: WhologwhyMmmm, veggies.​Every few years, our elected officials pretend to care about nutrition. This week, Congress is debating whether to keep counting the tomato paste on pizza as a serving of vegetables in school lunches. Makes you nostalgic for the days of mystery meat and rubbery ... More >>

Rick Scott Wants the Government to Choose Your College Major -- No More Anthropologists

Anthropology? All that stuff is already covered in the Bible!​Here are Gov. Rick Scott's small-government principles at work again -- he wants the state to pick and choose which university majors are more important and shift funding from liberal arts programs toward the state universities' enginee ... More >>

President Obama Turns 50 Today; Let's Recount His Most Magical Moments

via Photobucket user bluejessamine​President Barack Obama turns 50 years old today -- according to both his "Kenyan" birth certificate and the real one -- and policy decisions aside, it's been a magical ride.That's right, magical. The president has managed to invent a few new states, made fun of N ... More >>

The "Black Ronald Reagan" Is Coming, but It's Not Allen West, According to The Root

​The Root, an African-American culture magazine, says that there's "a job opening out there for a black Ronald Reagan" but that Rep. Allen West don't fit the bill.The magazine says West, along with Rep. Tim Scott and presidential candidate Herman Cain, are black Republicans who have had the opport ... 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 >>

Reader: This is a Republican's Wet Dream

​Our comment of the day today comes from a long time commenter who summed up what a Republican might (ahem) say while doing dirty things.This comes after our post on The Juice that details how Deputy Property Appraiser Bob Wolfe not only supports Allen West but tweets about it.His office didn't ta ... More >>

A Real Laffer: Rick Scott's Economic Guru Is "Trickle Down" Man

Florida Fraudster-in-Chief Rick Scott has named his economic advisers, and it's not a pretty list. The biggest name on the list is Arthur Laffer, Ronald Reagan's trickle-down voodoo economist whose "Laffer Curve" was aptly named. It was certainly laughable. Laffer claimed that ... More >>

Ronnie's Kids

Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore Sells the Same Old Shtick

Political Boss

No rock star has played politics smarter than Bruce Springsteen.

What About Bob? Florida Senior Bids to Be Florida's Junior Senator

Bob SmithBob Smith, who for 12 years served as New Hampshire's U.S. Senator, is betting that his brand of retro-Republicanism will carry him to victory in the 2010 race to be U.S. Senator from Florida. Smith retired in Sarasota six years ago and declared his candidacy this month. If elected, he woul ... More >>

Tribune's Lee Abrams Defines America

In his latest think piece, Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams describes the transformation of the company's national cable channel, WGN, into "WGN-America." "WHY 'AMERICA'? Because there's more to life than Hollywood and Manhattan," Abrams writes. "The channel will speak to Mi ... More >>

Grand Old Puny: Republicans Feeling Blue

Not that it matters for another 22 months, but a recent in-depth state-by-state analysis of party affiliation by Gallup says Florida "leans Democrat." The study included more than 18,000 interviews with Floridians and ultimately says that since 2002, the country has gone from mostly Republi ... More >>

Cool Credos

We offer the presidential contenders our picks for political theme songs

Rock 'n' Roll's National Anthems

Here are some songs to enjoy on the Fourth of July

No Country for Old Communists

Mikhail Gorbachev, at Seminole Hard Rock, tears down that hall

Licensed to Chill

How the Beasties went from hip-hop pranksters to musical renaissance men

Oscar-Starved

Forget Justice. We Got Terrorists To Catch.

Cold War Reheated

Red Dawn: Collector's Edition

Chick Flick

Shut Up & Sing, Lunacy, Family Ties, 49th Parallel

Down On Florida

Help Team Bores Us To Tears (Or Is It Our Contacts?)

Backstage Pass

Jello Biafra with the Melvins

Sieg Howdy! (Alternative Tentacles)

Senior Moment

Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man in The Memory of a Killer

Going for Broken

Jim Jarmusch's latest road movie is filled with fetching existential ambiguities

Driven to Drink

Sol Theatre raises a toast to surviving the '80s

Third Man

Fort Lauderdale's John B. Anderson ran for president in 1980 and paved the way for spoiler candidates

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Contra Campaign

An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.

Earache

I had fun at the Darkness show. So bite me.

Cucarachas, punk rockers

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong

Cruel Summer

Looking for fun? Crush will leave you blue

Best Centenarian

Al Ross

Waiting For Otto

Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

Best Right-Wing Loony

Dan Gregory, talk-show host

A Double Whammy

Two top execs at the gaming company that Boulis built have deep ties to the Christian right

Hear Horton

James Heath leads rock's longest-running revival from one Bush to another

One Man, One Vote

Haitian immigrants like Gerlyn Cadet know in their marrow that a ballot is a precious thing. But this election leaves them feeling robbed.

There's Something About Jodie