Republicans Losing Grip On Miami Cuban Vote

An anti-communist militant who fired a bazooka at a Polish freighter walked free with impunity in this sultry subtropical U.S. city, and Cuban Americans favouring closer ties with their homeland could once expect to be firebombed here. But Miami has changed and the sometimes violent scenes of Cuban exile passion appear to be in the past. That could spell trouble for President George W. Bush's Republican Party in November's general election........here

Florida Turtle Hospital Worth A Visit

You could call it Sunny's finest hour, finally going home - wherever home might be. The send-off was to be nothing short of one befitting a celebrity. It was a cool, almost cold, January day recently in this resort community. Even with a cloudless sky and a blazing sun, a stiff northeast wind left little chance for any warming rays to challenge the chill.......here

The Loggerhead Marinelife Center

Florida's Own Civil Rights Martyr

He has been called America's first civil rights martyr, yet his name rarely arises with those of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr. Even in Florida, where his quest to bring full equality to blacks led to his untimely and violent end, Harry T. Moore remains unknown to many. Bob Devin Jones is doing what he can to rectify that fact. Jones, a St. Petersburg dramatist, will bring his portrayal of Moore to Bartow Public Library Tuesday evening........here

T. Rex's Quote of the Day

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis

Stogie's Quote of Forever

The stakes in November are high. This is an important election. Prosperity and peace are in the balance.".......G.W.Bush

G.W. BUSH IS NOT THE WORST WORLD LEADER EVER........here

A Letter From Barack Obama

We Are The Change We Have Been Waiting For

We just learned that we won all three contests today -- in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington State. We've now won 18 out of 28 states, with New Mexico still in the balance. What's more, we also estimate that we at least doubled our delegate lead today. Our momentum is strong, but another round of tough contests is about to begin. Tomorrow, Democrats will caucus in Maine. And on Tuesday, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia will have their turn........here
To win, we need to bring as many people into the process as possible. We're pushing towards 500,000 donors this year by March 4th, when Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont vote.

Florida Atheists Celebrate Darwin Day

A godless minority will gather Saturday to celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin and promote unconstrained scientific inquiry. More than 200 atheists are expected at Fern Forest Nature Preserve in Coconut Creek for Darwin Day, an international festival that celebrates the importance of scientific inquiry and the accomplishments of Darwin, who brainstormed the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1838........here

Mike Gravel - Corruption

What Do We Do If Hillary Wins?

I feel bad for Howard Dean. Really, I do. The man just has a politician's version of Tourette's syndrome. I'm sure when he said that he wanted to bring "the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement" in order to create unity at the DNC. Will Progressives sacrifice the pureness of their consciences for the sake of backing the only Democratic candidate left standing? Or let's say Barack takes the nomination: will Hillary's people rush to support him? Michael Moore says he is morally prohibited from voting for Hillary Clinton, and I agree with him........here

Highwaymen Provide Students Double-Dose Of Florida History

From the early 1950s through the 1980s, a group of African-American artists who came to be known as the Florida Highwaymen painted utopian scenes of Florida's landscape. No people or sailboats, condos or theme parks. Just sunsets and sunrises, palm trees and lagoons, beaches and oceans, birds watching from overhead, all in bright, clean colors.........here

Weeki Wachee To Become Florida State Park

The famous mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs will become state employees on Nov. 1.
That's when the venerable roadside attraction will become a state park. The Southwest Florida Water Management District, which owns the land and spring, approved the deal Jan. 29.......here