A City Commissioner calling the chief of police to get out of a traffic ticket is that kind of trite, light public corruption people joke about, but you never actually hear anyone getting punished for it. Well today, the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust found probably cause that City…
Jeb Bush spent most of the past four years denying that he would run for president …in 2012. He literally never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen in no uncertain terms that he would not be running, but when asked about 2016 he seems to have a…
Remember that fun time earlier this month when you waited for like four hours in line to vote? Well, that was partially thanks to new Republican-backed voter laws signed by Gov. Rick Scott. Of course, GOP officials say the new laws were to save money and cut back on voter…
This fall’s presidential race was the first since 1976 where neither a Bush nor a Clinton took part as a candidate, running mate, or primary contender. But by the looks of things there’s a good possibility we’ll see a Bush (not to mention a Clinton) contending in 2016. The New…
Some Democrats are already smiling like they’ve got Florida’s 2014 gubernatorial race in the bag, and with Rick Scott’s consistently abysmal poll numbers, it’s easy to see why. Though, that also might explain while there’s a brewing interest among some GOP circles to see someone run against Scott in a…
Marco Rubio didn’t exactly have the nicest things to say about either Miami rapper Pitbull or the field of science in his interview with GQ published yesterday. He claimed Pit wasn’t a poet, and cast doubt on generally accepted science that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. He’s since…
Well, we don’t have Allen West to push around any more. After two weeks fighting his razor thin loss to newcomer Patrick Murphy, demanding recounts, and calling on fellow Tea Party patriots to battle for his cause, the craziest guy in Congress has finally conceded this morning. And, in vintage…
Marco Rubio and Pitbull may be the two Cuban-American Miamians who, more than anyone else, have shot to national prominence in their own ways in the past few years, but don’t expect the two to be hanging out anytime soon. In a new interview with GQ, Sen. Rubio starts some serious…
Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas will make history. He’s been nominated by President Obama to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and if his appointment is approved by the Senate, he’d become the first black, openly gay man to ever serve as a federal…
Barack Obama might have gay voters to thank for his reelection, especially right here in Florida. A new analysis suggests that if only straight people went to the polls here, Romney would have pulled off a win by something like two percentage points…
President Obama has come out strong in favor of raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but Marco Rubio thinks that’s a fool’s errand. In Rubio’s mind, the rich just have too much money to waste on things that will get them out of paying taxes anyway…
The growing scandal involving the affairs of Gen. David Patraeus and Gen. John Allen looked for a minute like it was about to include, at least peripherally, former Gov. Charlie Crist as well. Yesterday, English paper The Daily Telegraph reported that Natalie Khawam, the twin sister of Jill Kelley, used…
Victoria Jackson is continuing her post-election meltdown. After declaring “America died” on election night, Miami’s own SNL start turned Tea Party queen, is now trafficking in conspiracy theories that Barack Obama didn’t actually win the election, and is now a big supporter of the burgeoning secession movement…
Ever since Election Day, the New Times office has descended into tribal taunts as each employee has tried to claim that his or her ‘hood was the nail in Mitt Romney’s coffin or the only thing keeping Democrats from ransacking the House of Representatives.To settle the issue, we’ve prepared a…
Mitt Romney had binders full of women. The Florida GOP might have had golf carts full of hookers.Rumors of a strange “men’s only” trip to the Bahamas, meant as a thank you to some of the Republican Party of Florida’s biggest donors, have been swirling for years, but new details…
Love it or leave it.It appears there are at least a few thousand Floridians out there who hate the United States of America so much in the wake of Obama’s reelection that they want to pull Florida out of the Union…
Not only did Floridians vote to reelect President Obama on Tuesday, they also, by a wider margin, voted down a proposed state constitutional amendment that sought, in theory at least, to limit the effects of Obamacare in Florida.Dejected, Rick Scott, the former health care CEO, is now backing down on…
“There are a million arguments as to why Mitt Romney lost the election…,” writes Luis Gonzalez over at Miami’s favorite right wing blog, Babalu Blog.Well, you could certainly say that.”But everything boils down to one simple fact…,” he continues.Uh, huh, and what would that be exactly? “We have become a…
Despite winning the majority of white voters, the Republican Party had their asses handed to them by minority voters last Tuesday. The beat-down has left the GOP in a race to figure out how, at the very least, to get more of the Hispanic vote.Bill O’Reilly has a novel idea…
Facing criticism that his voter reforms and refusal to extend early voting hours lead to Florida’s election debacle on Tuesday, Rick Scott told a radio station today, “Well, I’m very comfortable that the right thing happened.”Hmm, let’s just check the definitions of “right” from Merriam-Webster…
I think the real problem with the GOP right now is that they just don’t have enough Bushes ready to run for president. Think about it. The Republican party has not won the Presidency unless a Bush was running since 1984. That’s almost 30 years!Well, don’t worry GOPers, your Bush…
Some votes are still being counted in Florida, but you can finally color in the state with the faintest shade of light blue. Mitt Romney’s campaign has just released a statement finally acknowledging that they’ve lost Florida…
