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Sarah Palin

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Independence Hall Tea Party PAC Gets Its Website Really, Really Hacked (UPDATED)

    UPDATE, 1:30 p.m.: Got in touch with the president of the PAC. He said he was upset. Added comment to the end of the story.A small New Jersey-based political action committee had its website torn to little, vulgar shreds last night by lunatics who appear to have come from the popular internet messag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Allen West "Willing and Ready" to Be Vice President

    ​When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West that he is "always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.""As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Allen West's PAC Contributions Include Some Old Favorites: Bank of America and Halliburton

    ​Rep. Allen West's campaign submitted its quarterly report to the Federal Election Commission at the end of the week, and he scored a few grand from the political action committees of a few companies that think it's a good idea to keep West in office, including Bailout Bank of America and Hall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Food Fights: Tiger Woods and the Curious Incident of the Dawg

    ​A 31-year-old man threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods at yesterday's golf tournament at CordeValle in San Martin, California, as he ran toward the seventh green. The motive is unclear: perhaps a phallic reference to Woods' epic infidelities? Woods was getting ready for his putt, said the golfer.  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Rick Perry Leads Florida Poll Going Into Debate, Followed by Mitt Romney and Still... Sarah Palin

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry​Without much difference from the national poll released the day of the CNN/Tea Party express GOP presidential debate two weeks ago, most Florida Republicans would pick Texas Gov. Rick Perry as their presidential nominee, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2011

    Top of the Point Unveils 'American Roadtrip' Dinners

    ​From the Top of the Point you can see all the way to Nantucket. The Napa Valley too. And Santa Fe and New Orleans. (Not Russia, though. Sorry, Sarah Palin.)  Actually, though the vistas from the penthouse restaurant atop West Palm's Phillips Point East Tower are both gorgeous and expansive, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Rick Scott's Bromance Partner Rick Perry Leads Republican Presidential Candidates in Florida

    Love hurts sometimes.​It looks like the guy who called Gov. Rick Scott "a stud" is currently leading the field of Republican presidential hopefuls for the 2012 election.According to a American Research Group poll of 600 Republican voters, 16 percent would chose Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the per ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Rick Scott's Office Unveils a Slightly Less Ridiculous Plan for Records Requests

    Information? We'll bill you for it.​Since Gov. Rick Scott's office decided that the public and reporters had to pay a price for open government in early March, it's been a huge complaint.They're not backtracking on charging people, but they're having a sale on getting information, according to a m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Interview Problems

    ​Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the DNC, has two big PR problems. The first is that she speaks almost exclusively in what sounds like focus-group-tested sound bites. The second is that she's no good at it, either because she lacks a certain common touch or because her sound bites are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 34 -- Fried Calamari With Moroccan Aioli From Sundy House

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 34: Fried Calamari With Moroccan Aioli From Sundy House There's something ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Allen West "On The Hot Seat"?

    The author intended to write a caption, but became sick to his stomach before he had the chance.​Sweet mercy, bring me strong liquor in large containers, for I have just learned that Allen West is "not a kitten kind of guy."Yes. Allen West prefers puppies. Didja hear that? Puppies.This information ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Michelle Obama Saves the World From Ronald McDonald, Burger King, KFC and Sarah Palin

    Flickr/Donkey Hokey​Taiwanese animators NMA have released a video that shows First Lady Michelle Obama as a superhero (in green tights, cape and stylish, yet sensible ballet flats) fighting off Colonel Sanders, Ronald McDonald and The Burger King with bananas as they roam the streets of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2011

    Keith Olbermann Calls Out Conservatives for Inciting Tucson Shooting, Includes Allen West, Repents

    ​Political extremism, loose-cannon comments, and politicians who vaguely or directly imply violence in their rhetoric have occupied airwaves for some time, and finally, the media is calling out the geyser of intolerance for indirectly causing yesterday's Tucson, Arizona shooting of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Exotic Meat for Sale: Lion, Rattlesnake and More

    Laine Doss Lion - It's what's for dinner.​Earlier this week, we told you about James Jablon -- a man who's living with lions for a month, and has said he will even eat what they eat. (We gave some advice about that.) Well, here's some info for those who would rather eat a lion than live wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Must-See TV: Six Food Shows We'd Like to Watch in 2011

    ​Anyone who's watched food TV since its inception has seen a steady evolution of the medium, from a staid Mario Batali cooking for three friends to Gordon Ramsay going batshit in Kitchen Nightmares to the snarky food soap opera that's Top Chef to Adam Richman snarfing down burritos as thick and lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2010

    Allen West 4 Prez 2012: Conservatives Turn Up the Volume on This Possibility

    via Facebook​The Tea Party's grassroots methods have proven effective in this year's elections, for better or worse. And now that the conservatives have a strong foothold, it seems the same bottom-up mechanism is beginning to churn out a new message: Allen West 4 Prez.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Election Day Notes

    Let's start this thing off with a couple of blog votes. On Amendments 5 and 6, it's pretty easy: If you like gerrymandering, vote against them. As for me, it's a yes vote on these two. On the judicial race between John Fry and John Howes for County Court Judge in District 1, I've made a decision. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Economic Gloom Lingers (PLUS: Halloween Costumes to Counteract the Sadness)

    ​We crossed our fingers before checking the most recent unemployment data, but the preliminary numbers crunched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and released today reveal that September was just more of the same, with unemployment in Florida at 11.9 percent, up slightly from August. Only Californ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Photo Fun

    This photo of Gov. Charlie Crist and Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter could be a classic someday​. They look so darned happy. Inside see more. 

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Video Highlights From Last Week's Broward Tea Party

    flickr.com​It's almost impossible to describe the sights and sounds of last Thursday's Tax Day Tea Party without making it seem like it was a crowd of angry, government-hating, probably-racist religious nuts willing to exploit their children to convince people the federal government should stop sp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Wacky Jackie

    flickr.com​It's almost impossible to describe the sights and sounds of last Thursday's Tax Day Tea Party without making it seem like it was a crowd of angry, government-hating, probably-racist religious nuts willing to exploit their children to convince people the federal government should stop sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2009

    Thirty Things You Should Never Say To Your Boss At The Company Party

    ​'Tis the season for those fantastic non-denominational holiday office parties. It's a magical time of year (several weeks before Christmas) when you take a few hours to stop thinking about your family and the friends you care about deeply, and focus on celebrating the season with the people you s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Frank "The Fist" Ortis Tells Nation's Mayors to Play Nice

    That's video from August 29, when Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis climbed in the ring with NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Considering that LT could have crushed Ortis' skull with one swing, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that the rolly-polly mayor is an advocate of civility and g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Screw Raw Food, Author Says, Because Cooking Made Us Human

    ​You may have thought cooking was just a way to get something to eat.   Actually, it's why homo sapiens developed bodies strong enough to bench-press a dump truck and brains that could create incomprehensible "financial instruments" to sell to widows and orphans and crash the world econo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Tea Party Team Fights Obama, MoveOn on Health Care

    RBerteigIf the website NoGovernmentHealthcare.com is any indication, the group of conservative folks who organized the local version of the nationwide "tea parties" have become emboldened by the turnouts they've drawn. Now they are fighting Obama's plan to move toward nationalized health care. If th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    World-Renowned Poll Cruncher Awed by Crist's Popularity

    No true political wonk goes 24 hours without checking fivethirtyeight.com, except maybe the people in Congressman Kendrick Meek's senatorial campaign, because seriously, campaigns run on hope.Last week, the site's wunderkind blogger, Nate Silver, devised a new metric (always with the metrics, this o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Can Florida Governors Save GOP From Its Self-Destructive Impulses?

    Flickr User: marsdencartoonsMaybe Rush Limbaugh doesn't spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there's no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, gov ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Grrrl Power Rocks

    Flickr User: marsdencartoonsMaybe Rush Limbaugh doesn't spend enough time in his Palm Beach home. Because clearly, there's no path back to political relevance for the Republican Party that does not include winning back Florida. And yet the two figures who have the most credibility on that front, gov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Conservatives Rise Up, Hit Local Streets

    This week, even his most ardent haters had to be stunned at Rush Limbaugh's remarkable political sway. The conservative radio host, who broadcasts from a "bunker" in Palm Beach, got an "Obama bump" when the prez dissed him publicly, casually remarking that Republicans ought to stop listening to his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Coral Ridge Surrenders; Jack Seiler Explains

    The church that D. James Kennedy built is waving the white flag in the culture war -- just in time for Barack Obama's inauguration. By hiring 36-year-old Tullian Tchividjian -- Billy Graham's grandson -- Coral Ridge Presbyterian has all but surrendered its right-wing, homop ... More >>

  • Music

    December 25, 2008

    Top Ten of '08: Pop Singles

    The church that D. James Kennedy built is waving the white flag in the culture war -- just in time for Barack Obama's inauguration. By hiring 36-year-old Tullian Tchividjian -- Billy Graham's grandson -- Coral Ridge Presbyterian has all but surrendered its right-wing, homop ... More >>

  • Music

    December 25, 2008

    Top Ten of '08: Metal

    The year's highlights came from the Southern Hemisphere, the rage within, and the mouths of babes

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

    You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

    In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. G ... More >>

  • Music

    November 13, 2008

    Drown Your Troubles in Tullamore

    Is there a cure in Biddy Early's mysterious bottles?

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    South African Songstress Miriam Makeba Dies

    Is there a cure in Biddy Early's mysterious bottles?

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Barack Obama wins -- and So Does South Florida

    It's a victory just to have an election pass without a local embarrassment

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    A Few Election Eve Headlines

    It's a victory just to have an election pass without a local embarrassment

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2008

    Last Night: Gloria Estefan at Seminole Hard Rock

    It's a victory just to have an election pass without a local embarrassment

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    The Gaffe Gap Narrows

    It's a victory just to have an election pass without a local embarrassment

  • Music

    October 23, 2008

    Cool Credos

    We offer the presidential contenders our picks for political theme songs

  • Music

    October 23, 2008

    Gryphon aims to have SoFla's hottest Friday

    We offer the presidential contenders our picks for political theme songs

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2008

    Yolks and Yuks With The Podleski Sisters

    We offer the presidential contenders our picks for political theme songs

  • Music

    October 9, 2008

    Beyond the Hood

    DJ Khaled drops We Global

  • Film

    September 11, 2008

    Ladies Light

    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2008

    McCain's VP Pick Is Beyond The Palin

    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    McCain Picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick

  • Culture

    January 17, 2008

    Too Clever by a Fourth

    A.R. Gurney's The 4th Wall at Palm Beach Dramaworks comes close to its potential before dashing it all

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