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Allen West Aimlessly Blubbering, Lying About How Obama Is Incompetent and Hates Free Enterprise

In a move I wish was slightly more surprising, Congressman Allen West has posted another petulant Facebook message that includes an entire Wall Street Journal column he didn't write."It seems the inept community organizer has failed. A second term? One must be stuck on stupid!" he wrote. "It is ... More >>

Fidel Castro's Niece Endorses Obama, and Conservatives Are Absolutely Thrilled About It

It's a Wall Street Journal editor's wet dream, splashed across the opinion page today: "Castro Endorses Obama."Mariela Castro, niece to the tracksuit guy and daughter of Raul, calls herself a "sexologist," and her work, according to Journal columnist Mary O'Grady, "has something to do with advocatin ... More >>

Favorite Food Memories, Rosanne Cash Cakes, and Other Food Links

​Kicking off the morning with our occasional a.m. round up of interesting links.Which holiday cookie are you? No, this is not an inane quiz from a women's magazine. It's one from The Washington Post to help you figure out what type of cookies you should bake.Speaking of. . . turns out, some c ... More >>

McDonald's McRib is Back, Worst Cereal in America, Rip-Off Restaurant Foods, and More

​Happy Monday. We've culled food news from around the internets so you don't have to. The McRib is back at McDonald's, reports Huffington Post, the sandwich that was introduced in 1982 and makes its menu appearance periodically. What's the best and worst cereal in America? Women's H ... More >>

Big Macs Are Pricey, Beers Are For Breakfast, and Everything's Better Fried

​Here's a serving of food-related links from the weekend papers. "It's 5:00 somewhere" is taken to the extreme in this Wall Street Journal article on breakfast brews. Among my favorites is the Mikkeller "Geek Breakfast" made with fancy French roasted coffee and stout. Calling Old Fort Lauderdale ... More >>

Poll: Conservatives Are the Anti-Crist; A Ham Sandwich Could Defeat Rick Scott for Governor

topix.comHam, a viable gubernatorial candidate.​As Gov. Rick Scott's disapproval rating keeps climbing, pollsters have run out of people to compare him with -- that's why Public Policy Polling says a hypothetical gubernatorial race between Scott and a ham sandwich would be a runaway for the lunch ... More >>

Marco Rubio as Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential Pick a "Dream Ticket," Romney Adviser Says

Marco Rubio​Republican presidential candidates are going to need an incredible campaign strategy to dismantle President Obama in the 2012 election.Two of the biggest challenges are winning large swing states, like Florida, and figuring out how to get Hispanic voters to pick in their favor.The answ ... More >>

Icon Las Olas Cleared to Begin Construction, but Now the Question Is Why

Icon Brickell was Jorge Perez's flagship project -- until he lost it to the bank.​It has been 13 years since Jorge Perez's Related Group bought the popular Hyde Park Market on Las Olas. Perez then took a wrecking ball to it with plans to put up the city's tallest building -- a 42-story behemoth co ... More >>

Colt 45 and Snoop Dogg Team Up for New Blast Beverage

Snoop Dogg shilling for Colt 45​When Colt 45 and Snoop Dogg get together you know it's class all the way. Colt 45 is entering the alcoholic-beverage-disguised-as-a-soda market with its new Blast beverages. According to The Wall Street Journal, Blast will have a 12% alcohol content (twice th ... More >>

Subway Beats McDonald's for Title of Largest Fast-Food Chain

​Subway is beating the crap out of McDonald's to win the title of largest fast-food restaurant chain. According to the Wall Street Journal, at the end of 2010, Subway had 33,749 restaurants worldwide, compared to 32,737 for McDonald's. The number of McDonald's stores was disclosed in an ... More >>

Rubio Trying to Energize GOP Base Against Crist

We've entered the home stretch in the race for U.S. Senate, and Marco Rubio is neck-and-neck with Charlie Crist. Which of these jockeys can whip his horse into a higher gear in the three months before the election? The momentum is clearly on Crist's side, as evidenced by this week's profile of ... More >>

Yelp.com Stands Accused of Acting Like a "Modern-Day Mafia"

Marital Tension in Deerfield Beach After Dog Dines More Extravagantly Than Family

Flickr: clarkiekWolak family to dog: "I'll have what he's having."​Sounds like the Wolaks needs a visit from a pet therapist. The Deerfield Beach family is featured in an article in today's Wall Street Journal about people whose love for their pets damages their human relationships. In the Wolaks' ... More >>

For Next 10 Months, Rubio-Crist Will Be a National Story; Will Broward Scandals Play Role?

Flickr: CenFlaPoliticsRubio​It would have been a more fortuitous sign for Marco Rubio if Doug Hoffman hadn't lost his congressional race in upstate New York, but the fact that a Conservative Party candidate won 45 percent of the vote has Rubio more hopeful than ever. The same can be said for the r ... More >>

Koch's Spokesman: Wind Farm is a "Boondoggle"

Flickr user: andjohan​Yesterday, The Juice brought you the tale of Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire energy mogul who has spent millions of dollars to oppose an offshore wind farm that will sully his view of Nantucket Sound. We speculated that Koch's opposition might have something to do with ... More >>

Will Condo Builder the Related Group Buy Corus Bank?

Photo by C.StilesWith CityPlace South Tower in foreclosure, what is Related thinking?​You have to hand it to the Related Group. No matter how bad the economy gets or how many ghost towers dot the skyline, the Miami real estate giant keeps looking for ways to make a buck. Here's the current philoso ... More >>

A 4-1/2 Hour "Candid" Interview and That's All You Got?

Come on, Joe Cotchett! You had 270 minutes with the financial Osama Bin Laden and you can't even give us a hint about what you learned about his lieutenants? Following the San Francisco attorney's jailhouse heart-to-heartstone with Madoff, Cotchett talked to ABC News, and maybe they're holding back ... More >>

South Floridians Snubbed for Role in Wrecking (Literally) the Celebrity Cachet of Teterboro Airport

Flickr User: MGMattOne of the Teterboro jets that managed to get airborne.How many illegally over-loaded jets does a company have to crash in order to get credit for slowing business among Manhattan jet-setters? Seriously. Two weeks after the second executive from Fort Lauderdale's Platinum Jet Mana ... More >>

Your Money's No Good Here: Another Alleged Ponzi Fleecer Flees Palm Beach

Flickr User: mspdigipartiesTom Petters with his daughter JenniferHey, look another house just got sold on Ponzi Island! Sorry, I mean Palm Beach. Easy mistake, since alleged Ponzi schemer Tom Petters is a neighbor of convicted $67 billion Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, among other Island residents li ... More >>

Boca Lawyer, Not Carl Bernstein, Broke Chinese Drywall Story

Suddenly, "made in China" doesn't have a good ring to it.In the Hollywood-produced movie about the Chinese drywall controversy, I'm guessing the story will be broken wide open by Zac Efron as ace reporter Carl Bernstein Jr. That would be supercool for me and all the other Efron fans. But in real lif ... More >>

The Line To Lansky: Steinger Linked To Ben-Veniste, Jewish Mafia

We know that Joel Steinger, the mastermind of the billion-dollar Mutual Benefits Ponzi scheme with ties to several Broward politicians (Steve Geller, Stacy Ritter, Ellyn Bogdanoff, and others), had connections to Colombian drug cartels. Now we have evidence of another intriguing ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Philanthropist Tied To Epic Swindler Madoff -- UPDATED

Michael Bienes doesn't make a lot of news and hasn't been involved much in local politics, but if you look around you'll see the tall and seemingly kindly Fort Lauderdale multi-millionaire's name all over the place. At Holy Cross Hospital, there's the Michael and Diann ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel Company Preparing For Bankruptcy - UPDATED

What a weekend for South Florida newspapers -- a very bad one. The Miami Herald is up for sale and Tribune Co., the parent of the Sun-Sentinel, is preparing for what may be inevitable bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the media company -- which counts among its properties the Los ... More >>

Bill O'Reilly Nails Robert Wexler

They'll Take Your Houses

South Florida's real estate forecast calls for pain

Angle of Descent

That moaning sound? It's the ghost of César Ritz.

In Rainbows leads to a Digital Pot of Gold

Soul Kitchen

A Deep South journey puts some meat on our bones.

The Sun-Sentinel's Murtha Mess

Gunz for Hire

Ron Gunzburger — public employee, power blogger — can't stay put, politically

They Did What?

2005's Top WTF moments

About a Man

In Good Company is wonderfully funny, a bit sad, and unmistakably real

Best Chocolate

Hoffman's Chocolates

Miami Without a Passport

Yes, you can brave the wilds south of Broward and find an A-list meal

United States of Jesus

The folks who are "reclaiming America for Christ" are pushing an agenda for a Taliban-like state where Scripture is law

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Political Therapy

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

Arabian Knight

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

To Sell a City

Peddling Lazy Lake proved problematic, but Realtor Sue Carolyn Wise won't surrender

A Double Whammy

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

Undercurrents

Albert to Unbound

Paying the Price

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Getting Sleeeepy...

for profit in the offices of the French commercial genius psychiatrist Dr. Clotaire Rapaille

These Are the Times That Try Victims' Souls

Take a number and wait. That, in essence, is what the Broward County courts are telling crime victims even those who get shot at.

The Ministry of Half-Truth

Broward's Coral Ridge Ministries says it's merely running an educational outreach. So why is it using politics to campaign against gay rights?