The Republican National Convention is coming to Tampa Bay in August, and along with it will comes thousands of protestors. Women’s rights group Code Pink, which isn’t shy about causing a commotion, is already planning its protest and is asking members to “bring their vagina to the RNC.” Yes, they’re…
This past March, a secret memo from the anti-gay marriage group the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) leaked. It underlined plans to make “support for [traditional] marriage [editor: in their language, that means opposition to gay marriage] a key badge of Latino identity.” Of course, it’s odd that a group…
First Lady Michelle Obama is stopping into town tomorrow, when she will speak to supporters of her husband’s re-election campaign at Barbara Goleman Senior High in Miami Lakes. However, two members of the Miami-Dade School Board, both registered Republicans, are taking issue with the event.”Don’t these liberals have boundaries?” member…
Despite the Christian Family Coalition’s regular habit of hurling hate-fueled messages towards the LGBT community and tirelessly working to strip gays of even the most basic rights, spineless local politicians desperate for any vote continue to legitimize the group by courting its members.Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson is currently running…
Among the placards lining the streets ahead of the August 14 elections, you might have noticed a blue-and-red poster with the name “De Yurre.” If that rings a bell, there’s a good reason: 59-year-old Victor De Yurre is the same guy who escaped a parade of investigations during his eight-year…
This Fourth of July, a collection of America’s most race-baiting off-their-meds pizza-gropey prominent right-wingers will beam from Las Vegas the sure-to-be-epic “Defeat Barack Obama Telethon.” Think “We Are the World, but without all the talk about saving Africa, and a whole lot of talk about how our president is from…
Another month, another one of Rick Scott’s controversial laws struck down by a federal court. This time around it’s a strange NRA-backed provision that banned doctors from asking patients about owning a gun. A Miami-based federal judge had already placed an injunction on the law, and last week struck it…
Last Thursday, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tore off his black robe to reveal a dashiki and bongos. At least, that’s how conservatives are portraying the George W. Bush-appointed judge’s tie-breaking decision to rule President Barack Obama’s health-care mandate constitutional. The upshot: Young folks will have to pay for health…
See also “Obamacare Is American As Apple Pie and Free Speech” and “Obamacare Ruled Constitutional by Supreme Court; Sorry, Pam Bondi.”This is nothing even close to Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) erupting into shrieks of joy upon learning of false reports that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was…
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has upheld President Obama’s health-care mandate, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the surprising, deciding vote that the sweeping reform is constitutional. The ruling is a blow to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who spearheaded the first national court challenge to Obama’s legislation…
Read also, “Rush Limbaugh is Pissed Obama Referred to Miami ‘Heats'” and “Obama in Miami Beach: Gives Props to the Heat, Takes Shots At Romney.”Maybe it’s the Marc Anthony effect. Maybe it hasn’t sunk in yet that President Obama accidentally called our local NBA champs the “Heats.” Or maybe, everyone…
Read also “New Voting Laws Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall,” “Department of Justice to Florida: Stop Purging Voters” and “The Daily Show Rips Rick Scott’s Voter Registration Laws.”Rick Scott’s partisan purge of voters from Florida’s rolls a few months before a major election — a move that has…
“It would be incomplete if I did not congratulate the City of Miami for having the world champion Miami Heats here in town,” President Obama said last night at his event with Marc Anthony at the Fillmore Miami Beach.Yes, Miami “Heats.”Rush Limbaugh, obviously, is really, really pissed about this…
It seems that Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen went all fan girl when drafting up a Congressional resolution to congratulate the Miami Heat on their NBA championship, because the thing is actually the rare Congressional measure that’s a pleasure to read. It’s basically a manifesto on why the Heat are just so…
Barack Obama swept into town last night in full campaign mode. In a fundraiser at the Fillmore in Miami Beach, the president gave love to the crowd, props to the Heat, and a good ribbing to Republican rival Mitt Romney. (To read about Marc Anthony’s sultry pre-speech performance, click here.)During…
Barack Obama may have been the first sitting American president to announce his personal support of gay marriage. He may have repealed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and allowed gay citizens to serve openly in the armed forces. He may have been the first president to appoint a Transgendered…
Senator Marco Rubio stopped by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night to promote his new memoir, An American Son. After some brief talk about Rubio’s time as a college football player at a now bankrupt school, the two got into some real “Senateyish” discussion. Yes, Marco Rubio coined…
It’s always exciting when the president of the United States comes to town, but the downside is that the motorcade ties up traffic. President Obama drops by once again tonight for a private fundraiser, followed by an event at the Fillmore Miami Beach with singer Marc Anthony. Here’s his itinerary…
Golden Beach has a problem. Its town manager allegedly drives like a gin-addled Gary Busey, and he’s in bed financially with the one person — the mayor — who could fire him. Alexander Diaz, manager of the tiny, wealthy, and epically fucked-up town where Eric Clapton and Ricky Martin have…
It’s not the best public university in Florida. But soon it will be the most expensive. The State University System’s Board of Governors announced today that it’s approved a tuition raise of 15 percent for Florida International University, and full time students will pay $4,669 a year starting next semester. FIU…
Well, this is strange. Yesterday, someone presumably close to the Romney campaign leaked information to ABC News that Sen. Marco Rubio was not being vetted as a potential Romney running mate. It was a sloppy move that left both Romney and Rubio looking bad. Well, late yesterday Romney took the unusual…
So long, George LeMieux.The former interim senator has dropped his bid to return to DC, and has left Rep. Connie Mack IV as the likely Republican nominee to take on Sen. Bill Nelson in November. LeMieux was never able to overcome his connection to former Gov. Charlie Crist, nor Mack’s…
