It’s not enough that the United States gives spectacular sums of money to Israel. Nor is it enough that the U.S. takes Israel’s side in virtually every political issue that crops up between that nation and the Muslim world. No, according to Congressman Ron Klein, the U.S. also must also…
The firm conducting an audit of Deerfield Beach’s dealings with nonprofit agencies has taken a keen interest in the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, a charity whose executive director chairs the city’s planning and zoning board and whose president is the daughter of Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier.On Tuesday, City Attorney Andy…
Cast your mind back to your seventh-grade Civics class, when Mrs. Brown drew that sprawling chart on the blackboard detailing the branches of government. That’s when you first found out you had something like a moral duty, as a citizen of this great land of America, to go to the…
An atheist named Michael Middlebrooks has accused Gov. Charlie Crist of having a bigoted view of nonbelievers following what he said was a brief encounter in St. Petersburg on March 5. Millbrooks describes his brush with the governor and U.S. Senate candidate in this messageboard post, then repeats it in…
In case you missed it, Susan Stanton was featured in this documentary that aired Saturday on CNN. Alas, it doesn’t have much to do with Lake Worth politics. Rather, it’s primarily interested in the perilous journey that Steve Stanton took to become Susan. Then Susan Stanton was hired to become…
There have been lots of books written so far about the 2008 presidential campaign, but no one’s got a story half as wild as Rielle Hunter. If (OK, when) she writes it, let’s hope she goes all the way back to her childhood in the Woodlands community of Tamarac, where…
A pollster’s analysis of Florida’s Senate race suggests that if Charlie Crist declared as an independent candidate, he would be doing adversary Marco Rubio a big favor. Public Policy Polling found that while Rubio has flipped the race in the Republican primary, he may be a tad too conservative to…
It’s hard to get traction with a back-wax narrative when you’ve given your opponent as much material as Crist has given Rubio.Via Buzz…
For three months, the City of Deerfield Beach has tried to give Arlington Park Family the benefit of the doubt. The local charity was paid $30,000 for “outreach” in 2007. The city attorney, Andy Maurodis, wrote a letter in late December asking for information about how that money was used.When…
Let me try to put a positive spin on a super-depressing graph. From the blog Calculated Risk, the graph above shows the high and low unemployment rates from each state since 1976, along with a red line for the current jobless rate. Yes, we’re living in the most depressed Florida…
Today on the Joyce Kaufman Show, your trusty Juice blogger was treated like a tackling dummy. I tuned in just in time to hear myself called a “lunatic” and be accused of lying.As best I can figure, I’m a lunatic for this post about congressional candidate Allen West. He resigned…
Florida Republican Rep. Stephen Precourt told the Palm Beach Post this week that he’d like Florida to look a lot more like Mayberry (and presumably a lot less like Sodom) — at least when it comes to cinematic representations. Precourt has proposed a bill that would increase tax credits for…
A group of about 50 Muslims from South Florida is embarking this morning on a trip to Tallahassee, where it will have secret meetings with state policymakers. It’s called “Muslim Day,” and the Lake Worth-based Florida Security Council says we freedom-loving Americans should be very afraid.Summoning my courage, I placed…
Today marks the three-year anniversary of the day that Robert “Bob” Levinson of Coral Springs disappeared from Kish Island, off the coast of Iran. A former FBI agent, Levinson was a private investigator following a tip about a cigarette smuggling case.Despite negotiations by American diplomats and impassioned pleas by Levinson’s…
Judging by the avalanche of campaign contributions and the enthusiastic backing of the national GOP, Allen West is no longer a prohibitive underdog in the campaign for the 22nd Congressional District that spans coastal Broward and Palm Beach.This means that as the race gets closer to the finish line, West…
Signs of desperation in Charlie Crist’s camp. That’s an appearance yesterday on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show. Around the two-minute mark, you can hear Crist muse about whether Rubio’s famously expensive haircut, charged to a Republican Party credit card, was in fact a “back wax.” Full transcript of the…
Former associate general counsel of Broward Health Joe Truhe will not be charged criminally for practicing law without a license. A closeout memo from the Broward State Attorney’s Office dated February 24 made it official. Now the more pressing question: Why was Truhe fired in the first place?The memo cites…
Gloria Battle, an ally of Deerfield Beach Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier, may have committed a crime by voting to authorize more than $12,000 in funding to the Haitian American Consortium, a nonprofit corporation for which she is the secretary.Based on a post by city activist Chaz Stevens on his blog,…
But we already knew that. We just didn’t know how thoroughly Gov. Charlie Crist and his trusty sidekick, George LeMieux, had exploited environmentalists and cheated Florida taxpayers. Thanks to this assiduously researched article in the New York Times, we’ve got the big picture — and it’s ugly.It’s clear that this…
As the Broward judicial races heat up, candidates are looking to seize upon every possible advantage. So it seemed a suspicious bit serendipity last week when Lisa Porter, the Broward Circuit Court judge running for reelection, appeared in a photograph with Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein on the legal community’s…
Muhammed Malik really knows how to spoil the fun of an anti-terrorism rally. The executive director of South Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations is actually glad that Joe Kaufman’s Americans Against Hate will be demonstrating outside the Broward County Convention Center tomorrow during CAIR’s fundraiser.”I don’t know whether to thank…
Now there’s an interview with a strange arc. The CliffsNotes version:Fox News: Marco Rubio, you’re all about fiscal discipline, but what’s this about you charging personal expenses to the Republican Party’s credit card?Rubio: That’s absolutely not true, pretty much. Let’s talk about something else.Fox News: OK, will you please be…
