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The Entire State of Florida Is Going to Jail For Tax Evasion

Monday is the last day to file your taxes. Have you filed them? Probably not. Because, according to a report, Floridians are filing slower than usual this year. This could be a mistake, Plantation spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service, Mike Dobzinski says. Because last-minute crunch-time filin ... More >>

Robert Platshorn Asks TV Audiences: "Should Grandma Smoke Pot?"

Next time you swing by grandma's for some of her world-class oatmeal raisin, the cookies might not be the only thing that's freshly baked. South Florida's all-powerful Social Security set has possibly had increased exposure to the wonders of medical marijuana thanks to a new informercial. Since No ... More >>

State CFO Jeff Atwater Courts Glenn Beck Fans, Rick Scott

It was not as thrilling as, perhaps, the sight of Dick Cheney on trial for war crimes, but Wednesday's meeting of the South Florida chapter of weepoid conspiracy monger Glenn Beck's 9-12 movement was quite the satisfying experience. This is particularly true because it comes under the looming shadow ... More >>

John Sims, Cooper City Commissioner Who Posted Racist Obama Message on Facebook, Says He's Sorry

Last week we told you about a stereotype-filled racist Obama "joke" posted on Facebook by Cooper City City Commissioner John Sims. He took the comments down from his Facebook page, but through the magic and wizardry of the Internetz, the world was still able to see what Sims wrote: "Just wanted t ... More >>

Palm Beach Democrats Meet, Squabble, Pick New Leaders

They may have just won a national presidential election, helping carry Florida for Obama and glorying in the defeat of the despised Allen West, but the Palm Beach Democratic Party executive committee was surprisingly prickly at its reorganizational meeting last night. It's the family squabbles that ... More >>

John Sims, Cooper City Commissioner, Posts Racist Obama Message on Facebook

Cooper City city commissioner John Sims is considered to be "outspoken." A straight-shooter who isn't afraid to "tell it like it is." He's also mind-blowingly racist. As Bob Norman reports, Sims had himself a racisorgasm and threw out every racial stereotype anyone has ever said pertaining to Obam ... More >>

Dear President Obama: You're in Hollywood Sunday; Let's Do Lunch

Dear President Obama:With less than a week to go before the presidential election, I am so pleased that you've chosen Hollywood to be the location for one of your last public rallies before the big day.I love that you've picked one of our local high schools for the venue and I'm hoping you run with ... More >>

Romney Visits Wilbur L. Ross Jr., Who Grew Rich While Miners Died

If Bain Capital and its kind are giant vampire squids wrapped around the face of humanity, Palm Beach is where they shit. The wealth they extract sits frozen along the waterfront here as miles of palatial estates, massive excrements of money. There's a reason it's called filthy lucre. Mitt ... More >>

Obama Takes Second Debate While Romney Collects His Binders

A few weeks ago, the first presidential debate took place, in which Barack Obama was replaced by a sock puppet and Mitt Romney was declared President for Life. The Mittbot was spirited and on the offense, while pointing his finger and blaming the president for all the ills of society while Obummer j ... More >>

Joe Biden Tells Florida Seniors Romney's Plan Will Tax Their Social Security

Joe Biden got medieval on Romney and Ryan's asses over the weekend. Biden rallied supporters at his events in Boca Raton and Tamarac over the weekend, which were filled with Florida seniors. Biden went around telling the many, many seniors who attended his rallies that Romney's economic plan coul ... More >>

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 >>

How to Speak Republican: Leaked Document Reveals the Secrets of the GOP's Coded Language

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Allen West Supports Paul Ryan's Budget Cuts, Gives Hypothetical Critics a Biblical Middle Finger

​Welcome to the inaugural post of our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality.Today's Fact Party analysis has plenty of honesty -- the problem, it appears, is in its practicality.Republi ... More >>

Allen West Uses Ben-Hur to Vaguely Defend Regressive Tax Plan

​If you were wondering, Congressman Allen West supports the flat tax. If you want to know why, though, it has, ah, something to do with Charlton Heston.West posted a video of himself speaking on the House floor last week under the title, "Why the Flat Tax Works." It's a curious title, because he d ... 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 >>

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 >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale Protesters Defy Rain as Hundreds Turn Out to Express Grievances

​Amid the unfavorable weather that hovered over Fort Lauderdale last night, a couple of hundred people still gathered near the Broward Main Public Library to express their distaste, distrust, and disdain for the state of the country.There's a common misconception that the Occupy movement is a rein ... More >>

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 >>

Allen West Gets a "Defense Fund" From Joe Miller Over Reelection Worries

Harriet Tubman​Apparently there's great concern over Rep. Allen West's reelection bid, since Tea Party hero Joe Miller -- the guy who lost a Senate campaign in Alaska to a write-in candidate -- and his political action committee have started the "Allen West Defense Fund" to keep the congressman in ... 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 >>

CNN/Tea Party Express Republican Debate: Live Blog

​The Pulp will be in Tampa tonight to live-blog the Republican presidential debate, hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express.Eight candidates will take the stage for the debate -- moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer -- from 8 to 10 p.m., and the event will be streamed live online, which you can find he ... More >>

Juliet Mahabir Stole the Identity of a Dead 8-Year-Old Kid, State Attorney's Office Says

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeJuliet Sherry-Ann Smith Mahabir, who's allegedly been posing as a dead 8-year-old for years.​Maria Del Carmen Diaz died on May 7, 1981 at the age of 8 years old. Maria Del Carmen Diaz has also made $283,464.35 as a teller at a Palm Beach County Wells Fargo ban ... More >>

Donald Trump, Tax-And-Spend Liberal, Wows Tea Party.

What can I say? I hate rich people!​Having read Slate's recent article on Donald Trump's last presidential pseudo-candidacy, I'm now a little sad to have missed The Donald's Tea Party-coordinated Tax Day event in Boca Raton. The Donald, I now understand, is a great American, and we should probably ... More >>

Allen West's Week #2: Bring On The Government Shutdown?

Thursday, Allen West appeared on Glenn Beck for a chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano -- a true libertarian and genuinely good guy, who nowadays earns his keep as Fox's answer to Harvey Fierstein and/or Bee Arthur. The subject under discussion? The government shutdown which may occur should Congress b ... More >>

Ted Nugent Roars Into Revolution on Tuesday

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