Perhaps no one in the history of Miami-Dade County has faced more repercussions for telling someone to go fuck themselves then circuit Judge Jacqueline Schwartz. The Supreme Court of Florida didn’t appreciate the judge’s potty mouth, and has fined her $10,000 and suspended her for 40 days for the incident…
Jeb Bush may be behind Trump in the polls, but one things he’s certainly leading in is nabbing endorsements in Florida. Even fellow Floridian Marco Rubio can’t touch Bush in that respect. In fact, today Bush announced a new bunch of endorsements that seem almost designed to embarrass Rubio. Remember…
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert only debuted last night, but if there’s one thing clear thing Colbert is trying to achieve to differentiate his shows from the competition its brining on guests from outside of Hollywood. Jimmy Fallon has his celebrity lip-synch games and Jimmy Kimmel has his cameo-filled…
Last Thursday, State Representative David Richardson of Miami Beach filed a bill (HB 137) that, if approved, would prohibit the use of so-called “gay conversion therapy” on minors, a practice that aims to change the sexual orientation of people who are same-sex attracted. Critics of the practice say that conversion…
The warning came three days after Magda Montiel Davis embraced Fidel Castro. A client called, saying that a rabid Spanish-language radio host was urging the public to kidnap the liberal lawyer’s small children. Montiel Davis had three older kids, but Sadie and Ben were then only 3 and 4 years…
Each state gets to enshrine statues of two of its most notable historical residents in The National Statuary Hall Collection at the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. Florida’s choices, made all the way back in 1914 and 1922 respectively, area guy who invented an early version of air conditioning…
Just a couple weeks ago, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson was on the all-out offensive to back his controversial fundraising efforts. Wolfson even took out three full-page Miami Herald ads to attack journalists Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg over Putney’s criticisms of how the politician and his ally, Mayor Philip…
When new host takes over a storied late night chat show franchise they look to start the show with the biggest guests they can get. Stephen Colbert is no exception. He’s booked George Clooney as his first guest ever when he kicks off his duties on The Late Show next…
In the heat of summer, it seems President Obama is dancing la salsa dura. Along with 40 artists, including Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin and Bob Marley, the President chose Miami-based Colombian salsa band Sonora Carruseles to appear on his summer POTUS playlist late last month. The chosen song, “La Salsa…
She remembers the way he smelled. Groomed and clean. No cologne, no cigars. Just soapy. His beard was soft. When she called home from her hotel room the following night, her daughter Maggie, then age 13, answered. “Mom!” She sounded panicked. “What?” Magda said, thinking, Christ, what now? Which one…
Donald Trump is currently the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president. This despite the fact that the guy has a lifelong history of supporting several ideas more at home in the Democratic party. Jeb Bush, whose undergone a stunning fall from front runner to third place candidate, seems…
You’re Donald Trump. You’re running a Presidential campaign where the only clear part of your platform is that you insult Hispanic immigrants and want to deport every undocumented one. The single most profitable business in your portfolio however happens to be a golf resort in the middle of a county…
In just a few months, Donald Trump has already had more politically deadly moments than most candidates manage in a lifetime. Only a campaign that’s playing to the most intolerant, xenophobic wings of American society could survive everything from Trump’s crass John McCain insults to his misogynistic Megyn Kelly rants…
ABC’s long running ladies’ chat program The View has hit a slump. The backstage gossip involving the program’s ever revolving carousel of co-hosts has proven far more compelling than anything they’ve put on air lately. Execs have announced an overhaul of the program in time for the shows 19th season,…
Well, well, well. Look who’s no longer universally hated. Yes, Governor Rick Scott has a positive approval rating for the first time since his first month in office in the history of Quinnipiac University’s tracking of Florida Governor. 45 percent of Floridians said they approve of the job Scott is…
According to a new poll from Quinnipiac University, more Floridians generally support the policies of Barack Obama and his Democratic party, but the controversial Iran Arms Deal is a bridge to far for most. It’s widely disapproved of in the state. Though, continuing federal funding to Planned Parenthood, allowing undocumented…
In public, Mayor Philip Levine strives to come across as the affable politician, a grinning multimillionaire populist who transitioned from media mogul and major Clinton donor to top dog in Miami Beach. But as heat has mounted around Levine’s role in raising more than a million dollars for a political…
Earlier this week, hackers dumped more than 40 million records from cheating website Ashley Madison. That’s sparked a nationwide scramble, with politicians grasping to explain why their info was on the site, the Pentagon opening a probe in the 15,000 government and military accounts included in the leak, and municipalities…
For the second time this year alone, the Florida legislature has vowed to give up on the tasks they were elected by Floridians to do instead of coming to a consensus. After the state Supreme Court ruled that the federal congressional district maps drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012…
Here’s the good news for those wary of Donald Trump’s surging popularity: Amongst the major Republican candidates polled against major Democrats in three major swing states, Donald Trump does the worst. Here’s the bad news: In Florida he’s still beating Hillary Clinton. The data comes from Quinnipiac University’s latest telephone survey…
Marco Rubio is a big Dolphins fan, so its quite possible that after watching Ryan Tannehill struggle with last year’s crop of receivers that this is just how he thinks football is played now. Rubio was hanging in Iowa with his family for the Iowa State Fair, and started up…
Following the release of a series of controversial and highly-edited videos showing officials at Planned Parenthood centers in other states discussing the donation of tissue from abortion procedures, Governor Rick Scott launched an investigation into Florida’s 16 Planned Parenthood offices. This despite the fact that donating tissues from abortion procedures…
