By Craig McCarthy
To read the headlines tonight, one might think that the results of the Florida straw poll (Herman Cain won big, in case you didn’t know) are both shocking and a rebuke to at least one or more of the other GOP candidates.
In my opinion, having watched and listened to Mr. Cain — and to how people react to him — neither of those things are true.
By Craig McCarthy
At one 199 pages, the President’s “American Jobs Act” isn’t a particularly onerous read as far as bills out of Washington go, and for that reason at least you might want to give it a once-over.
I’ve just spent no more than ten minutes reading the Bill That Must Be Passed, and am concerned enough to log on to Florida Political Press…
By Craig McCarthy
As I write this, it is the first week of March, 2011. The next statewide and national elections are twenty months away.
As a former candidate for the Florida House of Representatives who campaigned between December 2009 up until the August 2010 primary, I can tell you that right now is the time for you to…
By Craig McCarthy
The tea party movement doesn’t officially have a foreign policy, of course, for various good reasons, but I believe it is a fair assumption that most passionate conservatives, whether lifelong or newly-minted, simply aren’t crazy about seeing the world’s great superpower — the Shining City on the Hill and beacon of good — floundering in moments of consequence around the world.
By Kim Carroll
Women have the power. They take their right to vote seriously and show up at the polls in greater numbers than men according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
In 2008, 60.4 percent of eligible female voters cast their vote versus 55.7% of eligible males. According to the same study, more women are registered to vote than men, 66.6 million versus 63.5 million. Maybe that’s why the “War on Women” has taken a front seat in this election…
By: George Noga
This post kicks off a three-part series about the crisis of spending, debt and deficits.
The next part deals with the interval between now and the inevitable arrival of the Minsky Moment, i.e. the unknown and unknowable time when an unsustainable economic phenomenon suddenly collapses.
The third post will address Gotterdammerung, or what happens after the Minsky Moment.
By Tom Tillison
It’s a fair guess that Connie Mack has seen some recent polling that has gotten his attention.
As the week closed out, the rhetoric coming from the Mack campaign took on a rather fervent pitch. In a press release sent out Thursday, it made the claim that opponent George LeMieux has “endorsed raising Florida’s sales tax to a nation-leading 16 percent.”
By L. Persona
Florida Democrats believe they can win a few Republican seats in Congress and are preparing a major offensive against several Republicans facing tough challenges this year. They believe that redistricting gives them a chance to offset the seats they are sure to give up.
However, the Democrats still fail to realize the albatross that ObamaCare places on their party’s efforts…
By Lloyd Marcus
A big well dressed black guy attended the Dallas, TX tea party rally with his white buddy. Both men missed my singing performance on stage minutes earlier.
I asked the black gentleman who had an impressive physique how often he worked out. He replied, “Everyday.” His white buddy said with a chuckle, “He thinks the Tea Party is racist.”
