The White House

Jodi Swank of Swank Farms Would Vote Nutella Off the Island

Things are growing in Loxahatchee. That's where Jodi and Darrin Swank of Swank Specialty Produce grow some of the most beautiful and desired vegetables and herbs on their hydroponic farm. Though farming isn't easy in South Florida, the work pays off. The produce from the farm, which includes 200 v ... More >>

Florida Likes Hillary Clinton Way More Than Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush

Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have seemingly been jockeying for position under the proverbial basket for the proverbial rebound that is the run to the White House in 2016 -- particularly in Florida, which is not only a vital swing state but also has the potential to screw up every presidential election u ... More >>

Jeb Bush's Message of Acceptance Shockingly Falls Flat at CPAC

Last week Marco Rubio spoke at the GOPers Paradise To Complain About The Black Fella, Them Freeloadin' Poor People, And Don't Touch My AK-47-Palooza (or CPAC, for short) where he basically told everyone that denying gay people simple civil rights doesn't at all make him a bigot, and that global warm ... More >>

Put Some Sweet Honey in Your Soul

The Fiscal Cliff Cookbook: Cooking On a Ledge

Just at the last possible minute, the House pulled the United States back from the brink of the dreaded fiscal cliff.During a vote late Tuesday, 172 Democrats and 85 Republicans voted for the bill, while 16 Democrats and 151 Republicans opposed it,  raising taxes for the wealthiest Americans, w ... More >>

Charlie Crist Goes Full Democrat Finally, Officially, For Real This Time

After pretty much doing it unofficially over the last few years, former Florida governor Charlie Crist finally made his defection over to the Democrats over the weekend. The signs have been there for some time. -- In 2010, he left the Republican party in a failed attempt at U.S. Senate bid. -- Th ... More >>

I-4 Corridor Predicts Florida for Romney

Constitution Party: Obama Might Mobilize Rioting Blacks, Hispanics to Take Over Country

There's something the South Florida-based wing of the Constitution Party would like you to know: There is a very real danger that President Barack Obama is going to stage a "false flag" assassination attempt to incide rioting, which will allow him to install martial law and postpone the November ele ... More >>

Can Vice Mayor Kristin Jacobs Save Broward From Climate Change?

Broward Vice Mayor Kristin Jacobs, who last year tried banning the sale of bongs, is the newest member of the Intergovernmental Coastal Oceans Task Force, a group of lawmakers and eco-experts appointed to protect us from the forthcoming watery woe of climate change.The group is said to represent the ... More >>

Frank Biden "Plans to Save the Country" With Mavericks High Schools

Frank Biden, younger brother of the man who is second in line for the White House, has a flair for the dramatic. Last year, he called the Mavericks High charter school in Palm Springs a "hope factory" and said its management company, Mavericks in Education Florida, was "on a mission from God."  ... More >>

Newt Gingrich Says Nobody Cares About the Right to Privacy, Challenges Obama to 21 Hours of Debates

​Newt Gingrich's stump speech at Wings Plus in Coral Springs had a lot of meat to it -- he criticized President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, made fun of the media, and was heckled mercilessly for the first half of the event by a protester who was eventually booted from the parking lot ... More >>

Allen West Apologizes to the Country on the House Floor (Video)

Rep. Allen Bernard West is sorry about that whole Congress thing that happened this year.​Rep. Allen West took about 14 minutes to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, apologizing to Americans for not really being able to do anything.Right after his apology, though, he mad ... More >>

While Cooking on the Cheap, Colicchio Is Spit Out by a Six Year Old

​A six year old spit out Tom Colicchio's food on a stage in Washington earlier this week, reported Tim Carman of The Washington Post. Part of the Great American Family Dinner Challenge, Austin Jackson rejected two dishes prepared by teams of top chefs cooking meals based on a food stamp budget of ... More >>

Michelle Obama: FLOTUS Goes to Baskin Robbins, Target, Petco (Video)

Michelle Obama shops at Target​News flash - the First Lady is like every other red-blooded American woman - she runs out to Target, Starbucks and Baskin Robbins as often as possible.In an interview on The Today Show, Michelle Obama admitted that she sneaks out to Target, Starbucks, Baskin Robbins ... More >>

Michelle Obama and USDA Say Food Pyramid Out, My Plate In

flckr/ Rapid City Public LibraryThis food pyramid is old news. America, it's time for a new food lesson...​ Remember that food pyramid you learned about in grade school and kept seeing around the place? Well, it's outta here. The United States Department of Agriculture has launched a new visual i ... More >>

Allen West On Gross Politicization (Speaking of Which: Why's His Daughter Using The "F" Word?)

​Allen West's opposition to Barack Obama's "draft executive order" continued in his Weekly Wrapup, in which he wrote this:However, an issue surfaced which could undermine the very fabric of who we are in this constitutional republic.This week a "draft" Executive Order was leaked that would force a ... More >>

Obama's Navy Seal Plan: Secret Mission to Kill Bin Laden Revealed

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock​While other so-called "news outlets" focused on our president's birth certificate and later the legitimacy of Bin Laden's death, here at New Times, we had our White House correspondent on a mission of top priority. What we uncovered are the top-secret blueprints use ... More >>

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 >>

Did Ritter Entertain Obama At The Diplomat With Campaign Money?

Did Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter use her campaign fund to help her gain sway with the Obama Administration in the hopes of getting a plum job in the White House? People forget that once upon a time it was supposedly a done deal that Mrs. Ritter was headed to Washington. &n ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Asks for Intimate Time in Palm Beach Mansion With a Young Lady

Flickr: vistagrandeLooks a little like a young Ann Coulter, doesn't she? (No offense, Ann -- or Kathryn.)​She's half Rush Limbaugh's age, but don't worry, she's still plenty legal. He's 59. And this weekend, the nation's most notorious blowhard will marry Kathryn Rogers, 33, at his Palm Beach mans ... More >>

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 >>

Frankly Swanky

Rep. Hastings Backs Off Helping Gays in Military, Digs at Obama

​Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-Miramar) tried to help gays in the military, but says he has been forced to back off "due to pressure from some of my Congressional colleagues and from the White House." Yesterday, he withdrew his proposed amendment to H.R. 3326, the Department of Defense Appropri ... More >>

Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade allies with a dubious business partner

In Hallandale, National Review Writer Finds Liberals to Lampoon

Doesn't really look like Obama, but he smiles. And he's black(ish).After eight years of watching Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Michael Moore crack wise over the dunderheadedness of a Republican president, the arrival of a Democrat in the Oval Office means the Republican humorists get their turn.B ... More >>

Waste Reduction a Red-hot Political Trend

With Americans stressing about the economy, politicians at every level are either skimping on the usual luxuries that come with elected office, or pillorying their rivals for failing to do so. But mostly, they're trying to do both.The Obama administration, which staged a bargain basement inauguratio ... More >>

Talking With Chuck D About Obama

Image via www.myspace.com/chuckdpublicenemyThere are few rap songs as important to modern culture as Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," a rallying cry against political indifference. Well, it's been 20 years since PE's frontman Chuck D helped scare the hell out of white America, and a black man now ... More >>

Frozen Stiff

The Frost/Nixon rematch headlines at the Caldwell Theatre

Letters for October 30 - November 5, 2008

Bailout Is Vile But Necessary

The Classifieds

A Look Into America’s Secret Life

Hand to Mouth

Leave the Etymology to el hombre

Bad Beginnings

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Idiot Box

Capitol-izing on Ineptitude

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Talk the Vote

Stop the Bush

No Dockers, Please

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bush Comes to Shove

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs

Scenes from the '60s

The Beatles and JFK

Letters for December 25, 2003

Pipe Bomb

Ike and Mamie's Navels

Floyd Wray was the Sunshine State's Johnny Orangeseed

Four-Star Muddle

The pros aren't impressed with candidate Clark's handlers

A Long Yard

It could happen here. Replace the guv with a movie star.

Out with the Truth, Part 2

The web sure didn't ignore the Foley-is-gay story

Bobbing for War

Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

Letters to the Editor

Letters for November 23, 2000

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