The announcement that President Obama’s administration will roll back restrictions on money transfer and travel to Cuba was met with mixed reactions locally, and its full political impact in Miami-Dade might not be known for some time. But Congressmen Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart have made no secret of their thoughts…
University of Miami’s president and America’s longest-serving secretary of health and human services, Donna Shalala, always keeps an eye on what’s going on with her former office. After a notable setback, President Obama is trying to get Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius confirmed to fill the role, and Shalala went on…
Charlie Crist might be one of the most surprising leading men featured during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. No, he didn’t find time to star as Brian Roberts in an imaginative remake of Cabaret, though we’re sure the idea would be thrilling to him. Instead he’s featured prominently in Outrage,…
And that is how (perhaps) our county came to create a water conservation site called “http://weuseless.miamidade.gov”
In politics nothing is ever guaranteed, but lets be honest the conventional wisdom is that come November 2010 Charlie Crist will be attending his electoral victory party. The only question is whether he’ll be popping the champaign for a re-election to the Governor’s mansion or a Senate victory. A group of solidly conservative Republicans…
After watching the press hubbub over Bo Obama unfold we wondered last week if any local Pols had any cute puppies of their own. A few quick Google searches didn’t turn up much, but we’ve had a few blanks filled in for us since then. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office…
As reported by The New York Times and Generation Miami, a new poll by Bendixen & Associates paints a picture of Cuban Americans firmly supporting President Obama and his efforts in regards to Cuba. The poll, based on 400 phone surveys carried out last week in Florida, New Jersey and…
Last month President Obama repealed the ban on federal funding on stem cell research, but that doesn’t necessarily open the door to state funding. Yesterday, the state house voted to keep language in a bill that would bar universities from using state money for embryonic stem cell research 68-46. The…
Because people in Tallahassee are a collective mass of “dumb,” they’re still dealing with a giant budget crisis. So, they went the easiest route and started seriously discussing a $1 tax on each and every pack of cigarettes. They’ll talk a good game, “Oh, this is to save people’s lives,…
Certain wingnuts think President Obama was born in Africa? Have they ever thought he might actually be European? First he tries and brings small bits of “socialism” that have been hall mark of many healthy, European democracies for decade, then he tries to shove soccer down our throats, and now…
In business and politics, it’s all about who you know. And connections are connections — even if the power player in your Rolodex likes the taste of his own feces.Yesterday morning, Riptide experienced a first: In a post-interview chat with a prominent Miami businessman and former city politician who shall…
The liberal, elitist media would like you to think that Barack Obama is the first ever dog-owning politician in history. Charles Beauregard “Bo” Hussein Kennedy-Obama (yes, we’ve made that joke today but we will continue to call him that until the Obama administration produces his birth certificate. Why are you…
Who wouldn’t want to rest for eternity on their college campus? What better a final resting place than the first spot you nervously smoked marijuana because the cute senior offered it to you and you didn’t want to seem like a geek but felt like you were somehow giving up…
Gather ’round, children — it’s time to discuss the latest results of the Quinnipiac University Poll!Floridians still love Charlie Crist. He has 66 percent approval ratings! That includes 66 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of Republicans. White born-again evangelicals like him enough (66 percent) but disapprove of him at…
You know what never made sense to me? Back in the ’90s, the WWF (now WWE) teamed up “The Million-Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, a character who was a millionaire, with Irwin R. Schyster, AKA I.R.S., a tax man. Together they won three tag-team titles, but, dude, millionaires friggin’ hate the…
When President Obama wasn’t bailing out America’s troubled cute industry yesterday with the unveiling of new First Dog Charles Beauregard “Bo” Hussein Kennedy-Obama, he found time to kick his support behind America’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup in either 2018 or 2022. He wrote a letter that was…
The Security Council of Florida’s website proudly heralds the key speaker of its upcoming Free Speech Summit as “Banned in London, Indicted in Holland, Guilty in Jordan, Welcome in Florida.” Charming. Geert Wilder has indeed been banned in London, indicted in Holland and found guilty in Jordan, but I wouldn’t…
Pretty much everyone knows that the education system in this country needs to be fixed. Conservatives like Sean Hannity apaprently think that if we break “the unholy alliance” between democrats and teachers unions everything will be solved. Liberals, actually I am not even sure. I hear a lot of chatter,…
Do you remember a particular post we made on Friday, Jan. 30 2009 at 11:02AM? Of course you do, because ever since then you’ve been waiting eagerly for Bob Smith to enter the Senate race. Bob Smith, of course, has already been a Senator. In New Hampshire, a State about…
It must be a sad day for all those anti-socialist hardliners in Miami, but 20% of Americans told Rasmussen Reports that they think socialism is better than capitalism. While only 53% can definitely say that capitalism is better than socialism. In adults under 30 the margin is even smaller. Thirty…
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential election, and because of that, he can find the answer to everything with a few clicks of his calculator. Except for the Oscars; he sure got those wrong. Sorry, Mickey. Now Silver is trying to predict the years when…
Brave Floridians of every stripe of ignorance went to the polls last November and banned any practical, legal recognition of gay relationship forever… or at least until society evolves beyond its prejudices, which history shows it tends to do. The gays can marry in Iowa and Vermont now, so it’s…
