Allen West as Rick Scott’s Lieutenant Governor? We Say Yes!

Rick Scott may have opened the door to what would be quite the dynamic duo of derpness at the top. Scott told a Tampa-area radio station that he would be cool with considering former Rep. Allen West as his next lieutenant governor. Actually, Scott basically just gave a polite answer…

Marco Rubio Calls For Non-Existent IRS Commissioner To Resign

Marco Rubio and the GOPers have their new Obama outrage to dryhump with this IRS fiasco where they targeted conservative groups during the 2012 election. And so Rubes is asking — nay, DAMANDING — that the IRS Commissioner resign his IRS Commissiony job effective immediately because… outrage! Also, there is…

Charlie Crist’s Gay Marriage Reversal: Twitter Responds

Late Wednesday evening, Charlie Crist set off a small detonation in the political sphere by throwing his support behind gay marriage. Now, this wasn’t exact a surprise. Since officially signing his Democrat papers six months ago, the former Florida governor has been slowly ditching his old Republican stances. Crist 2.0…

Five Most Important Florida Bills That Failed

The Florida Legislature is kind of like that family friend who comes and crashes your pad for two weeks, rearranges everything in your cupboards, tells you exactly what kind of person you are, and then leaves so you can live in the mess they just created. After two more quick…

Obama Rides, Praises Broward Students’ Science Project Bike

Kionna Elliot, 18, and Payton Karr, 16, of Northeast High School in Broward unveiled their science-fair project in the East Garden of the White House on Wednesday afternoon.And the result was not only a display of pride from students repping our hometown but it also gave us a fantastic image…

Gun Control Bill Dies, Florida Legislature Reacts Accordingly

Ah, Florida Legislature. No, Gays, you can’t do that. No, Women, you can’t do that. No, Poors, you can’t have that. BUT TAKIN’ MAH GUNZ IS A VIOLATION OF MAH RIGHTS!! And so it goes. When news broke that the gun control bill hit the proverbial brick wall and died Wednesday…

FAU Trustee Angela Graham-West Explains Why She Felt Harassed; Students Call for Restraining Order Against Allen West

Today former U.S. Rep. Allen West posted threatening-sounding messages on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, suggesting that Florida Atlantic University students had harassed his wife, Angela Graham-West, a trustee at the school. This afternoon via phone, Graham-West explained what prompted his message. “This all started out as an internal thing,”…

Florida Armed Security Guards in Schools Bill Heads to House

Oh hey, lookit. A bill that would allow armed guards to walk around your kid’s school has been introduced to the Florida House, because the state legislature is a fantastic entity of profound and wondrous ideas. It’s called HB 1097. And it’s gonna cure all our nation’s ills. The answer to gun…

Arts Garage Wins Fight to Stay in Delray Beach

After a pretty bruising back and forth, Delray Beach finally made a decision on what to do with the Arts Garage. In front of a pro-Arts crowd packing the house, the city commission last night voted three to one to let the nonprofit stay put. The decision put a win…

Marco Rubio Ripped Jay-Z On His Trip to Cuba

Marco Rubio appeared on one of the Sunday political talk shows on, uh, Sunday (THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM!) and slammed, ripped, dunked on, smacked down, put a hurtin’ to, Jay-Z and his recent decision to not only visit Cuba, but to also be unapologetic about it in a…