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…
Here in Florida we still haven’t decided who we’re going to award our 29 electoral votes too, and unlike 2000 it doesn’t matter one bit.”For once, Florida’s clusterfucker is irrelevant,” declared Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. “It’s like hearing, ‘Good news America, the tumor on your dong is benign.'”Dong…
Conventional wisdom would have it that Rep. David Rivera’s nearly 11-point loss to Democratic challenger Joe Garcia might have had something to do with all those scandals Rivera currently finds himself embroiled in. Rivera however was never much for conventional wisdom. He maintains that changing demographics and voter turnout were…
For decades Cuban-Americans have been one of the Republican party’s most reliable bases in Florida. Well, maybe not anymore. Some exit poll analysis suggests that Barack Obama actually outperformed Mitt Romney among Cubans in Florida. While others don’t show him quite pulling off that historic demographic upset, they do paint…
It shouldn’t be this hard. Really! Voters fill in a little bubble showing who they’d like for president. Elections machines tally them up. And whichever guy gets the most votes wins the state. Everywhere else in America, this simple process works just fine.But this is Miami, where two days after…
Last night, Senator Bill Nelson cruised to an easier than expected reelection, and, because Marco Rubio has some decency, Florida’s junior senator took to Facebook to congratulate Florida’s senior senator. However, a lot of Rubio’s Facebook fans were just not having it…
Miami’s own SNL star turned Tea Party Queen Victoria Jackson is not having a good day. After all, a communist remains in the White House. While it may not have been quite as ridiculous as Donald Trump’s now infamous Twitter meltdown, Jackson vented her emotions on social media and proclaimed…
It appears that Connie Mack IV won’t even get to return to D.C. as a member of the House spouse’s club. His wife, Mary Bono Mack, served in a House district representing Palm Springs, California, and after coming up short in the early vote tally, local media is now painting…
