Inside Marlins Park, Ozzie Guillen apologized for “betraying his Hispanic community,” but outside the front gates, a sizable crowd of Cuban-American protesters made it clear they were in no mood to forgive or forget his statements praising Fidel Castro.”We never can forgive what he said,” Blanco Garcia said. Click through…
A couple of Florida’s GOP congressmen, lead by first term Rep. Sandy Adams, read some crazy conspiracy theories on the Internet about how Obama was going to enslave us all into military conscription and forced labor, and decided to file an actual resolution about it. Obviously Allen West is involved…
Democrats have finally found a candidate to take on vulnerable Republican incumbent congressman David Rivera. Her name is Gloria Romero Roses. She has no electoral experience, no name recognition, and doesn’t even live close to the district. Oh boy…
I done did it now. Two weeks ago, I announced in this space that I was planning to run for the open commission seat in Surfside, the sleepy beach hamlet of corruption and weirdness ruled by my obscenely overpaid nemesis, town attorney Lynn Dannheisser. Qualifying to run — including collecting…
Yesterday, Ozzie Guillen backtracked quicker than Emilio Bonifacio evading a pickoff after Time magazine quoted him admitting he kinda respects Fidel Castro for not falling for the CIA’s best exploding cigar tricks. Guillen now says he didn’t mean to come off as a Fidelista, telling the Miami Herald that in…
Uh……..Hold on let us figure out what to say about this.Um……OK, so, Marco Rubio told all his Twitter followers today to buy Nicki Minaj’s new album “to hear what good music sounds like.”…
With the Marlins Park opening today and the Heat clinching a playoff birth, South Florida hasn’t been paying too much attention to another potential milestone sports story. The Florida Panthers (that’s our hockey team in case you’re wondering) are painfully close to not only reaching the playoffs for the first…
Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad…
Rep. David Rivera is one of the most vulnerable Republican congressman in the entire country. He’s under numerous criminal investigations, and his seat in District 25 is quickly seeing its Republican voter advantage fade. It could be a slam dunk for Democrats, assuming, of course, they had anyone to run.They…
What the hell happens up in Tallahassee sometimes? Seriously?See, the apparently powerful dog grooming lobby convinced our elected officials to take time out of their busy legislative session to lift an old ban on dying live animals. They were actually successful, but the ban now means that the controversial practice…
Anyone who plays soccer in Miami knows how frustrating it is to find a good game; fields are scarce, so either you pony up the cash for an organized game or you play free pickup on some forlorn, lumpy turf that hasn’t been mowed since the Carter Administration. As mayor…
Well, at least one prominent Republican doesn’t want Marco Rubio running as the party’s VP candidate. Always polarizing pundit Ann Coulter was on ABC’s This Week yesterday, and she said that picking the exciting but still unproven Rubio would be a “mistake.”…
Congrats, South Beach residents! You’ve survived the beer-bonging, glowstick-waving trafficpocalypse of spring break and Miami Music Week. Now enjoy the fresh air and (semi)abundant parking while it lasts, because you’re only a few weeks away from the massive crowds of Memorial Day weekend.Even worse news: Riptide has gotten its hands…
Attention Miami-area anarchists, liberals, and Occupiers: Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is worried about “knuckleheads” causing trouble during the Republican National Convention this August. So to keep all the Romney-disturbers in line, last night he proposed a “Clean Zone” across most of downtown Tampa where police will have broad power to…
Just two weeks ago, a Rasmussen poll showed Republican Connie Mack IV beating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by seven points, but now a new Quinnipiac poll shows an almost opposite picture. According to Q, Nelson now leads Mack by eight points in the battle of Senator Spacesnakes vs. “the…
Marco Rubio finally stepped off the sidelines of the GOP primary last night, backing Mitt Romney for president in an interview on Fox News. While the endorsement isn’t all that surprising, Rubio’s timing sparks a key question: Is he backing Romney because it’s clear Mitt will hold off the competition,…
So much for post-racial politics. The tragic shooting of Miami teenager Trayvon Martin last month by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman has once again exposed America’s deep racial fault lines. Jesse Jackson quickly announced that “blacks are under attack.” White supremacist websites circulated bogus pictures of the teenager in an…
Man, Rick Scott can’t catch a break. Back in January his approval rating was 38 percent. Yeah, that’s still pathetic, but for Scott they were amazing and perhaps a sign his popularity could be improving. Well, no such luck. In the latest Quinnipiac Poll he was back down to 36…
Congressman Bobby Rush III, a black Democrat from Illinois, was escorted off of the floor of the House of Representatives the morning after donning a hoodie to show his support from deceased Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The moment came just a day after House Democrats held a forum to discuss…
Jeb Bush has spent the better part of the past four years not running for president and telling everyone about it, but what about a run for vice president? A new national poll shows that if leading candidate Mitt Romney picked Jebbers as his VP, it could make for a…
How is Andre Pierre still running North Miami and not awaiting trial on corruption charges? State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has some splainin’ to do after a Miami Herald report this morning ties Pierre even more closely to the corruption charges filed against his nephew last year.The new tapes from…
Reality, or something sort of like it, has finally caught up to Gov. Rick Scott. The Tea Party activists that help elect him? They’re apparently not so enamored of Scott any longer. The leaders of what remains of the movement are not too pleased with Scott’s performance as governor thus…
