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Florida Dems attack Marco Rubio while he continues to blast President Obama on Israel

Published on March 25, 2015 in Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

According to Marco Rubio, some of President Obama’s top political operatives were sent to Israel leading up to last week’s elections in an attempt to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You know, he didn’t send anyone in any other country to try to influence the outcome of those elections,” the Florida senator told conservative talk-show host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday night. “And from Jeremy Bird down to others that were deeply and intricately involved in his campaigns in the past,…

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Bill Day’s latest: the ‘Cruzzard’ takes flight

Published on March 24, 2015 in Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

At Virginia’s Liberty University, Ted Cruz made it official. The Texas senator declared his long-awaited White House bid on Monday with a passionate 30-minute speech, calling to “reignite the promise of America.” Cruz, a Tea Party firebrand, became the first in a soon-to-be-very-crowded Republican field with an event at the bastion of Christian conservatism; an irony not lost on either side of the aisle, including editorial cartoonist Bill Day. Cruz’s campaign – most certainly a long shot – seeks to mold…

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Democrat Patrick Murphy announces run for U.S. Senate

Published on March 23, 2015 in Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

South Florida Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy has declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016. “It just boils down to where I think being in the U.S. Senate, we can really have a great impact,” Murphy told SaintPetersBlog late Sunday afternoon by phone, giving his first interview after declaring that he is a candidate for office. Murphy becomes the first official entrant from either party to announce his intentions for the seat currently occupied by Marco Rubio.…

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Patrick Murphy and Kobayashi Maru

Published on March 19, 2015 in Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch

In what has to be one of the best opening sequences of any Star Trek episode or movie, James T. Kirk somehow manages to win the unwinnable test. For those of you who consider such sci-fi schlock beneath your station, the Kobayashi Maru is a no-win training exercise which tests the character of the new cadet, while being disguised as a mock battle scene — one which cannot be won. Kirk somehow manages to win the unwinnable test. How did he do…

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Tea Party leader Debbie Dooley says new criticism of Florida solar initiative is just ‘lies and deception’

Published on March 17, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Debbie Dooley, a founding member of the national Tea Party and a leader of the Atlanta Tea Party, says she always looked up to Ralph Reed as a national icon — until she worked on his 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor in Georgia as a volunteer. So she says she’s not surprised that the Florida offshoot of the group that Reed created in 2009 — the Faith and Freedom Coalition — came out today to criticize her group’s efforts to try to put…

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NRCC obsession with Gwen Graham and ‘brass in her pocket’

Published on March 6, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by James Call

This is funny. Chris Pack obviously doesn’t know me and/or much about rookie U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham. Then again, I should have realized back when people threw beer cans at me during my stand-up comedy phase in college that I do humor like Andy Kaufman – a few get my jokes, but most are bewildered. So, Pack of the NRCC sent out an e-mail, one of those ICYM things alerting folks about a supposedly negative piece on Graham that I wrote based…

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