Donald Trump, the current leading GOP candidate, is known for insulting people on Twitter and getting into epic beefs with journalists, celebrities, and even utility companies. But his latest Twitter rival comes in the form of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen. Teigen, who is known for her sharp wit, instigated…
On Sunday, Donald Trump, who currently holds a double-digit lead among GOP candidates, tweeted out fake murder stats that says 81 percent of whites are murdered by blacks, and that blacks that are killed by police make up only one percent. This came after Trump going on television and saying…
The House has voted to pass the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act (SAFE) by an overwhelming 289-137 vote. The controversial bill is designed to stop Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the United States without first going through a very vigorous vetting process to prove that they aren’t security…
Following the Paris terrorist attacks last week, Marco Rubio reversed his previous stance on allowing Syrian refugees into the country. On Wednesday, Rubio was scheduled to attend a classified briefing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where the U.S.’s role in the aftermath of those attacks would be discussed. Instead,…
Last night, the New York Times published a pretty damning story headlined “Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say.” It quotes one of his advisers saying they tried to “make him smart” but that Carson just wasn’t understanding complex international relations. Now, we need to get to…
Gov. Rick Scott and six other governors closing the door on Syrian refugees and turning them away would be “nothing less than signing a death warrant for tens of thousands,” a coalition of humanitarian and refugee resettlement leaders said on Tuesday. On Monday, Scott joined several other governors in refusing to accept…
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his face contorted in a scowl, doesn’t get up to greet Alex Villalobos when the big-eyed 42-year-old state senator enters the dimly lit office connected to the executive suite of Tallahassee’s Capitol building. It’s early May 2006, shortly after the last day of the legislative session,…
Rick Scott has asked Congress to keep about 425 Syrian refugees from being located to Florida. The Sunshine State is joining Alabama, Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois and Massachusetts as states that have come out and said they will not be taking in Syrian refugees in the wake of last…
In the wake of the terrorist attack in Paris that left at least 129 dead and countless others wounded, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came out talking tough about ISIS. During an interview on Meet the Press Sunday, Bush came out and said that the U.S. should declare war on…
Lauren Cooley is an unlikely candidate to lead Broward’s Republicans. The 23-year-old Fort Lauderdale native has more than 26,000 Twitter followers, knows a thing or two about Instagram filters, and isn’t shy about her Netflix binge-watching habits. Cooley returned to the 954 after graduating from college last year. Now, she’s…
As former Gov. Jeb Bush gets ready to tour our state in his campaign for the presidency, a Twitter campaign has backfired in the most Jeb! way possible. In a attempt to bullrush his way back to the top of the polls and voter’s imaginations, Jeb has launched a “Jeb…
Last week, while Hillary Clinton was in the middle of a marathon Congressional hearing defending herself in relation to the Benghazi incident, Roger Stone was at the Fort Lauderdale Barnes & Noble giving a talk about his newly-released book, The Clintons’ War on Women. Tonight, Stone will appear on Real Time…
The Sun-Sentinel, who once upon a time endorsed Marco Rubio for Senator, has turned on the Presidential hopeful in a scathing editorial that calls Rubio to quit his day job. The piece, published on Tuesday night, basically calls out Rubio for collecting a fat paycheck and then doing diddly-squat for…
Ben Carson is currently running second in the GOP polls behind Donald Trump. This means that the majority of Republican voters polled nationally want him to be president over people like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Carson, the West Palm Beach neurosurgeon who not only once left a…
Since 1972, the Seal of the Florida Senate contained a fan of five flags flying over a golden disk with a gavel, quill and scroll and the words “In God We Trust” engraved in it. The flags were made up of banners that have flown over Florida at one point…
The U.S. Congress is pretty much greased by wink-wink arrangements and cash gifts. So it’s no surprise that a series of recent reports have identified D.C. legislators who have gotten perhaps too cozy with the payday loan industry — the $46 billion-a-year business that keeps many low income Americans locked…
The crowd of about 1,200 filed languidly out of the Friday afternoon sun into the dank B. George Mayer Gymnasium in Broward College, waiting to catch a glimpse of the Democratic frontrunner for President of the United States. But there seemed to be very little enthusiasm for Hilary Clinton outside…
The Florida Family Policy Council has called on Gov. Rick Scott to fully defund Planned Parenthood. The FFPC says Scott has not done enough to show he’s a pro-life governor, and have launched a campaign to get Scott to terminate Florida’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood was well as the…
Donald Trump continues to lead the GOP in Florida, but a new poll recently released shows Jeb Bush making a sudden and strong comeback, vaulting into second and gaining on The Donald. According to the latest Jacksonville University poll, Trump gets 24 percent of the vote in Florida, with Jeb…
With Donald Trump harping on Hispanic immigration and Jeb Bush talking up how society should not be multicultural, it’s time to look at the numbers and see exactly where Florida — the state where the two candidates hail from — ranks when it comes to Hispanic assimilation. A recent study…
Elijah Manley says it’s hard to be a kid presidential candidate. Not only does he lack the financial backing available to more prominent candidates, the 16-year-old Fort Lauderdale High junior says he also has to deal with people constantly reminding him that the constitution dictates that he has to be…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz went after Sen. Marco Rubio hard for holding a fundraiser on Yom Kippur at the home of a man who owns Hitler memorabilia. The much maligned Democratic National Committee chair’s suggestion is that Rubio was raising money in the home of a Nazi memorabilia collector on the Jewish…
