The Taliban

Florida Fracking: Sen. Jeff Clemens Says Name Your Poison

Name yer poison. Especially if you're messing with chemicals that have the potential to contaminate Florida's groundwater supply. That's the intent of legislation filed by State Sen. Jeff Clemens, which would create a registry of chemicals used by companies fracking for oil in the Sunshine State. S ... More >>

Witness to an Execution: State Rep. Dave Kerner Watches Murderer Die

"Write what you know" is the cardinal rule of creative writing, and it would seem to be even more important in the writing of legislation. Bad literature can be ignored; bad law, not so much. State Rep Dave Kerner has taken that thought to heart. Kerner (D-Palm Springs) has played a major role ... More >>

Susan Bucher, Palm Beach Elections Chief: Champion of Civil Liberties

Friends in the Palm Beach Chapter of the ACLU recently asked us if we had any suggestions whom they might grace with its 2013 Harriette Glasner Freedom Award, "for a Palm Beach County resident whose life and work embodies the values and ideals of the Constitution and the ACLU." When do we ... More >>

Book-Burning Exhibit in West Palm Beach; Enviro Film Fest in Lake Worth

It's the blahs: postelection, in the limbo between the holidays. The nation's not in totally awful shape, no rioting in the streets (though some think that would be an improvement). We're enduring the social equivalent of what Freud described as the goal of psychotherapy: normal unhappiness.Dismal a ... More >>

Allen West's Lawyers: Let's Interrogate Elections Officials

Since mock execution is not an accepted method of investigating election results in South Florida, confessed torturer and probable one-term congressman Allen West has turned to the next-best thing: a team of high-powered attorneys.See also:-Allen West Won't Concede, Demands RecountTuesday's results ... More >>

Allen West Blames Obama for Afghanistan Suicide Bombing

In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and... took the side of the Taliban."Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs," West wrote. "As sun came up, Taliban ... More >>

Wage War on Hungry Bellies

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 >>

South Florida Muslims Seek a New Way to Get Along in the Wake of Terrorism Charges and Bigotry

Allen West Advises That Everyone "Chill" Over the Video of Marines Wizzing on Corpses

Rep. Allen Bernard West​As someone once wisely said, "It's better to be pissed off than pissed on."In this case, it's allegedly the Taliban that's been pissed on, and Rep. Allen West who's pissed off.West says he's "assessed" the video, and people should "chill" because they're getting "over-e ... More >>

In the Heart of Darkness: Veterans Hunt Alligators to Heal the Wounds of War

Allen West Confirms Americans Aren't Star Trek Characters, Rips on Occupy Movement

​If you're a constituent of Rep. Allen West -- or even if you aren't -- it's time to subscribe to the congressman's "Weekly Wrap-Up."The entertainment value is always on high, and it'll give you an idea of what West has been postulating over the last week -- like the time he dedicated a few lines ... More >>

The World According to GOP Presidential Candidates

​In case you didn't notice -- between coverage of the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony Weiner, and Anderson Cooper probably wearing a skin-tight shirt -- CNN held a debate between hopeful Republican presidential candidates last night.You can guess what happened when Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Ne ... More >>

Religious Groups Gear Up For Margate Mosque Protest

Photo by Matthew Hendley"No Jihad in our backyard," one of the "pro-American" sentiments displayed at today's announcement​Mustaches, Gadsden flags, and rampant Islamophobia.We have the rest of the story too.Religious groups, tea party activists, and residents of Margate showed up this morning ... More >>

Tea Party Fort Lauderdale, Other Groups Protesting to Shut Down Margate Sunni Mosque

wix.comThe Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque in Margate​If you happen to be in Margate tomorrow night, be on the lookout for a few of South Florida's more religulous outside the Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque.The protest comes in response to the arrest of 24-year-old Izhar Khan -- the mosque's im ... More >>

Allen West Suggests Congressmen Should "Get Shot at a Few Times" to Change Opinion on Afghanistan

briansdesk.com​The U.S. House is nearing two different votes demanding that President Barack Obama set a definite timetable on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, but Rep. Allen West doesn't want to hear any of that hippie talk. Instead, Lt. Col. West would prefer that congressmen urging an exit f ... More >>

Local Muslims May Support Terrorists or Strive for Peace -- Depending on Whom You Ask

Prosecutors say the six men supported the Taliban in Pakistan.​If you believe the feds, the group of local Muslims arrested across South Florida this past weekend were supporters of terrorism and worked to fund those who would kill and kidnap in the name of Islam. The four-count indictment claims ... More >>

"The Tillman Story" Sets the Record Straight

Summer Movie Preview

Allen West Trained Muslim Fighters -- Before Declaring U.S. Must Fight Muslims

Flickr: South Florida Tea PartyWest (left) posing with tea party protesters, who admire his blunt style.​During his 2010 congressional campaign, Allen West has talked tough not just about terrorism but about the Muslim world. In a speech that gained national attention last month he charged that Is ... More >>

War Film Brothers a Family Trauma Drama

Two Jews Walk Into a War: Florida Stage Play Is Like Dumb & Dumber -- but Dumber, and Set in Kabul

Afghan Star

Judging a New Kind of Idol

Palm Beach on Film

Three film-fest flicks offer likable hipsters, peace for a day, and barely likable Scotland.

We Head to Afghanistan to Find Out What's Been Gained by Eight Years of War

Guantánamo's Final Days

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

Jug or Not

BSO takes the "fun" out of funbags

Packing a Tune

You'd never know he's an aspiring pop star, a massage therapist, and an accused arms dealer

Toby Keith

Mighty Avenger

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel at

Amnesty for Somalis!

They're dissed 'cause they're not across the border

From Gitmo With Love

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bush's Crimes

Impeach the president? Yes. A well-documented case ties him to Abu Ghraib.

The Best of 2003

Ranking and filing our Local Top Ten

A Christmas Confession

Columnist repents, vows to stop killing Christian fundamentalists

Toby Keith

Shock'n Y'all (Dreamworks)

Letters for December 4, 2003

You weren't duped for a teeny-tiny minute?

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters undermine both the Catholic Church and the popular image of Ireland

Political Therapy

Talking war with dissident Jim Mullins is good for a battle-scarred psyche

Letters for March 27, 2003

A Hate-Love Relationship

Hank's Think Tank

What's the Henry Rollins alternative to war? Talk. And more talk.

Letters for November 28, 2002

Pot laws are no joke, dude

Letters for August 15, 2002

Misreading Islam is fundamental

The War Within

Listen to the leaders of two South Florida mosques tied to terror

Jello Biafra

The Big Ka-Boom, Part One (Alternative Tentacles)

Thinking Bigotry

A racist Billy Bob gets funky in Monster's Ball

Fair Game

A terrorism survivor and expert digs into the bin Laden dilemma

1984 and Counting

Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell