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Koch Brothers Should Stay Away From Sun Sentinel, Say 619 Locals and Counting in Online Petition

The idea of swallowing down morning coffee alongside some front-page libertarian bloviation courtesy of a Koch-owned Sun Sentinel isn't sitting too well with some. Last week, we sent out a smoke signal about the possible media sale everyone is talking about: The South Florida daily's parent -- the T ... More >>

FAU Really Does Cancel Sale of Naming Rights to GEO Group

[UPDATE 7:50 p.m. -- They did "levitate the Pentagon"! Though our initial post was about students playing an April Fools' joke, the GEO deal was indeed canceled, it was announced this evening. Details below.]  Students opposed to FAU's decision to sell naming rights to the school's footbal ... More >>

Identity Thief's Creators Fear What Audiences Love About Melissa McCarthy

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

Allen West May Have a Totally Legitimate Point About the Afghanistan Qur'an Burning

​When Congressman Allen West starts talking about Islam, people whose livelihoods depend on pageviews usually break out their camcorders, because the odds are pretty good someone's going to get really offended.But West has posted several Facebook messages about the recent uproar over the burning o ... More >>

Harry Sargeant III Under DOJ Investigation for Alleged Bribes to Jordanian Government

democraticunderground.comHarry Sargeant III (center) in between his buddies Charlie Crist (left) and Jordan's King Abdullah II. (right)​Harry Sargeant III -- the energy mogul, Delray Beach billionaire, and former Florida Republican Party finance chairman -- is under investigation by the Department ... More >>

Allen West: Politicians Are Always 100% Honorable

He's trustworthy 'cuz somebody taught him to shoot things.​What is it with with our Republican froshes? Can't they agree with the White House on anything?Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio made an ass of himself by using his weekly newsletter to oppose Barack Obama's "draft executive order" -- an order wh ... More >>

Coral Ridge Ministries, Sodomy, and Death

​Imagine you are Jesus Christ and you're scuba diving. Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, you come upon a submarine. With your famed omniscience, you divine its nature, its contents, and its capabilities. This is the USS Florida, an Ohio-class vessel, fresh from the Libyan coast. It's almost 600 feet ... More >>

MSNBC: South Floridian Oil Man May Have Bribed Jordanian Officials

King Abdullah II​Last month, this blog reported that a Delray Beach oilman named Harry Sargeant III may have overcharged the U.S. government by more than $200 million while fulfilling military contracts. Now, according to MSNBC.com, Sargeant is being accused of bribing Jordanian government officia ... More >>

Did a Florida Oil Man Bilk You?

​All of us belt-tightening, recession-hardened Americans love "fiscal responsibility" and "free markets." A politician merely says the words "free markets" or "fiscal responsibility" in a sufficiently grim tone and we go wild, like little Asian girls getting their first glimpse of a 22-year-old Pa ... More >>

Ann Coulter Watch: "Like a Condom, The First Amendment Can't Always Protect You."

​This week, our favorite local virgin published her most vapid screed yet at Human Events, her "editorial home." Wondering why our nation's top "legal eagles" have yet to make a compelling case for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, she draws on her lawyerly training to ... More >>

The Twelve Freaky Gingerbread Houses of Christmas

​Construction permits on new gingerbread homes are not issued until the first week in December, after which the confectionary edifices spring up everywhere.  Gingerbread houses were first built in Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, and popularized in the 17th and 18th centuries. Gingerbread me ... More >>

Ann Coulter Watch: Don't Call Our Troops Homophobes

Coulter: all-gay batallions would scare the extremism out of the enemy.​Is there a Floridian more fun, more frisky, more flagrantly insane than Ann Coulter? Maybe! But if so, we don't know about it -- because that person, whoever s/he may be, doesn't do us the profound service of sharing his or h ... More >>

[UPDATEDx2] Lien on Me: Allen West Calls for "Personal Responsibility" Undermined by Personal Financial Record; Will Tea Party Protest Him?

FlickrAllen West addresses tea partiers at their July 2009 rally.​Ha ha, just kidding about the tea party protest. Not likely these folks turn on one of their own "patriots," even if the recent revelations suggest that West has done exactly what he and his tea party allies have pilloried the gover ... More >>

Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them Combines Horrific Violence and Downright Silliness

G.I. James Is Wayyyy Tougher Than G.I. Joe

It's a Monday in the summer, which means we have to learn about the crappy movie that was America's favorite this weekend. And today that task is more grim than usual. The big winner is G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.Despite the warnings of film reviewers around the nation, we still spent $56.2 million ... More >>

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Armed Again

Indicted South Florida weapons dealer Efraim Diveroli keeps making millions from you and me.

Move Over Madoff, Here Come the Marching Trojans

I, for one, feel duped. This morning I received the itinerary for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Band's trip to Washington DC, where they are to perform in president-elect Barack Obama's inuguration parade. Band director Neil Jenkins had told me that the youngsters would be doing ... More >>

My Best Friend's Wedding: Boca War Profiteer Gets Invite

From panty raids to war profiteering. Frat brothers grow up so fast, eh Charlie?What's a wedding without at least one war profiteer? That's the baggage that Harry Sargeant's been lugging around the last several months, ever since a congressional oversight committee took a close look at the deal Sarg ... More >>

If Bill Ayers is a Terrorist, Then So Am I

Spending a weekend with an accused domestic terrorist shows what kind of guy he is

Hitting Inside the Heart

Ecuador's Oswaldo Guayasamín painted to expose what man does against man

Rollins Brand

Rock 'n' roll maverick Henry Rollins talks politics and the upcoming election

The Horror

Blood on Fort Lauderdale Beach

The Bodyguard

Special forces. National ad campaigns. Watching the backs of the big guys. Meet this Eastern European hottie.

For All You Political Junkies ...

Oh Canada

Suffered A Sept. 11 Tragedy? Call Now!

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should.

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Spreading the Plame

It's time more journalists were called on the carpet for bad judgment

Err America

A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Letters for October 28 - November 3, 2004

Show Some Pep!

Lost Sounds

Lost Sounds agrees: A regime change is necessary

Letters for January 9, 2003

Remove the Bars

Circular Logic

The people watching the airlines should have and could have taken action... but didn't

Barry Bad

Sonnenfeld's comic caper is no Trouble at all

Letters for November 8, 2001

Cut the bureaucrats some slack

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

The Hate Man

Lloyd Shank is a poster boy for free speech. The Jews are to blame.

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Admitting Terror

The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists

Arabian Knight

Jack Shaheen crusades against cinema's depiction of Reel Bad Arabs

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Undercurrents

When bad things happen, SoFla newspapers react. Sometimes they overreact.

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

Eat, Drink, and Lament

The terrorism in the Northeast can bring us together

The Straight Dope