New Poll: McCollum Leading Sink, Crist Leading Rubio
Shifting position from a poll released in June, Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum leads Democrat Alex Sink, 38 – 34 percent among registered voters in the 2010 Governor’s race in a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday. The poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 percent, reverses a 38 – 34 percent for Sink, [...]
Borgnine Keeps Pace of Guys Half His Age
Ernest Borgnine may be 92 years old, but he’s keeping up a pace that could scare a man half his age. The “Marty” Oscar winner just wrapped up work on “The Genesis Code,” a big-screen drama with Louise Fletcher and Fred Thompson in Michigan, and he leaves next week for New Orleans to start work [...]
Lone Survivor of Florida Boat Accident Opens Up
Months after a fateful fishing trip that took the lives of three football-player friends, Nick Schuyler is ready to talk about his ordeal. Schuyler was the only survivor, found clinging to a capsized boat nearly 48 hours after the men set out on a fishing trip to the Gulf. Every night before he goes to [...]
Crist in Jacksonville to Meet Senate Hopefuls, Tour Boeing Facility at Cecil Field
Gov. Charlie Crist is visiting Jacksonville today for a tour of the Boeing facility at Cecil Field. The aircraft maker has operated a repair and upgrade facility for military F-18 Hornets at the former military airfield for about a decade and employs about 200 people there. Boeing is also in the process of moving additional [...]
Teachers Share Success Tips Under FCAT Stress
Despite budget cuts to school districts over the past few years that have made it difficult for some schools to perform, six elementary schools have improved their state grades from “F” to “A” in a single year. Teachers and principals from those schools were in Tallahassee Tuesday to talk with Gov. Charlie Crist about strategies [...]
Three Jobs Per Unemployed Person in Jacksonville
Three jobs per unemployed person. That’s an impressive statistic, isn’t it? The online job aggregator Indeed.com has determined that, based on the job listings for Jacksonville, there are three job postings available for every unemployed person in the city. That’s the second highest in the nation. So, you might ask, why are we not at [...]
Does Barack Obama Watch ‘CSI’?
Debonair actor George Hamilton says he’s amazed at how well the movie “My One and Only” turned out — but admits he’s not so sure his mother would have felt the same. In fact, says Hamilton of the feature, which is loosely based on his colorful mom’s adventures during his childhood, “I don’t know if [...]
Populist Right Rising
What happened to the Age of Obama? Glancing over the New York Times Book Review Sunday, one finds three of the top four non-fiction best-sellers were written by conservatives — columnist Michelle Malkin, talk-show host Mark Levin and Fox News contributor Dick Morris. At No. 10, in its 40th week on the list, is Bill [...]
Bob Novak, R.I.P. — Faith, Freedom and Free Enterprise
Now we say goodbye to Robert Novak, who passed away early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. Yet another conservative icon has left us. He was a good friend and an amazing reporter. In fact, I believe he was the best reporter of his generation, which spans all the way back to the Dwight [...]
ObamaCare’s Inevitable Logic
False charges about Obamacare don’t help. Like the end-of-life tempest. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin popularized the term “death panels.” She said: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can [...]
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