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Today on Context Florida: Food insecurity, misinformation on guns and shrinking Florida newspapers

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Today on Context Florida: The United Nations had not yet been officially established when it formed the Food and Agriculture Organization, which Terri Susan Fine says suggest that ahead of individual human rights and world security, one of the most basic human rights is access to food and nutrition. The chronology of events speaks to food security as surpassing all other human rights. So what is the value of other human rights if the most basic goes unfulfilled? Rights, even those…

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Today on Context Florida: Hamiltonian parties, dirty hospitals and pre-K & poverty

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Today on Context Florida: As the 21st century finds its rhythm, and the 2016 presidential contest begins to take up most of our public space, it seems clear to social commentator Clay S. Jenkinson that there two political parties in the United States, but they are both thoroughly Hamiltonian. We have what might be called the “greater Hamiltonian Party” and the “lesser Hamiltonian party.” The obscene dominance of money, political action committees, lobbyists, fundraisers, and unrestrained attack ads has essentially disenfranchised…

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Today on Context Florida: Liking candidates, therapy and community schools

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Today on Context Florida: Fifteen months before the presidential election, New Hampshire and Iowa is where the action is. That is true every four years, says Bob Sparks. Voters might agree with some, or many, of a candidate’s positions, but they want to vote for someone they like. In a close election, too many might stay at home if the nominee does not make them want to get out and vote. Catherine Durkin Robinson describes how she became a clichĂŠ, a…

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Today on Context Florida: Numb & dumb, gun regulation and Hispanics & the economy

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Today on Context Florida: Diane Roberts says in case there is anyone left who thinks ÂżJeb? Bush is a fine man running a fine campaign for president, his remarks after the latest mass shooting, this one in Oregon, shows that he comes up numb and dumb again. Under limp leaves of a tasteless and nutritionally void word salad, lurks something rotten and nasty: “stuff happens.” Only an unbalanced citizen would not condemn the killings in the recent shooting in Oregon and…

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Today on Context Florida: Jeb Bush & stuff happens, libertarian fail and taxing “carried interest”

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Today on Context Florida: Jac Wilder VerSteeg discusses Jeb Bush’s “stuff happens” comment and his campaign’s reaction to the reaction. He gives a little advice on how to deal with questions about the Second Amendment the next time there’s a mass shooting – and there is bound to be another one he has to deal with between now and the election, assuming he’s not out of the race quickly: Before you speak, Jeb, imagine that you are in a room alone…

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Today on Context Florida: Betting on Marco Rubio, the black experience and desperate leaders

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Today on Context Florida: Earlier this week, POLITICO ran “5 Reasons to bet $5 on Marco Rubio,” trying to make the case for a path to the presidency for Florida’s junior senator. But Peter Schorsch says that Jeb Bush, whose rumors of his demise have been exaggerated, dominates the field in a number of predictive categories. For fun, he might consider betting $5 on Rubio; but to pay the mortgage, Schorsch will be betting on Bush. Chris Timmons believes it is…

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Today on Context Florida: Jeff Atwater, crazy conservatives and Kevin McCarthy

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch says imagine you are a well-heeled, card-carrying member of Florida’s Republican establishment. With an already a difficult election cycle, such as choosing between supporting Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio for president, Jeff Atwater is making the election cycle even more difficult. Florida’s CFO was indeed considering entering the race after earlier this year declaring that he would not run. And the Republican establishment is peeved. Autumn has arrived, and Diane Roberts calls it the season…

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