Crist Names LeMieux to Fill U.S. Senate Term
Today Governor Charlie Crist named his former Chief of Staff George LeMieux to fill out the remainder of Mel Martinez’s U.S. Senate term. “I congratulate George LeMieux for being appointed by the governor to fill the remainder of my term,” said Martinez. “George is bright, capable, and an accomplished administrator. My staff and I stand [...]
How Much Homework Is Enough?
Commentary by Al Neuharth, founder of USA TODAY. About 74 million students now are or soon will be back in classrooms across the USA (55.6 million in grade school or high school; 18.4 million in colleges or universities). That reignites this age-old family question or argument: How much time should students spend on “homework” each [...]
New Jeb Bush Ad Backing Thrasher in State Senate Race
The combative state Senate District 8 race continues to prove a major air war with Jeb Bush featured Thursday in a new television spot for John Thrasher. In the ad, the former governor blasts trial lawyers for attacking the Republican contender. “John Thrasher had the courage to help me rein in frivolous lawsuits some lawyers [...]
Lottery Ad Dispute Settled
A contentious battle over a nearly $80 million advertising contract with the Florida Lottery has been quietly settled. The end result is that lottery officials on Wednesday signed a new 3-year contract with St. John & Partners Advertising and Public Relations to create and place the ads meant to entice people into playing the various [...]
Local Republican Leaders Meet With African-American Pastors At Faith Forum
The Duval County Republican Party hosted a forum at historic Edward Waters College in Jacksonville on Tuesday night to explore the issue of the role of people of faith in modern politics. Just over 100 people from all political parties attended the event moderated by Representative Jennifer Carroll to ask questions and explore one of [...]
Competition
“Choice, competition, reducing costs — those are the things that I want to see accomplished in this health reform bill,” President Obama told talk-show host Michael Smerconish last week (http://tinyurl.com/nb7r87). Choice and competition would be good. They would indeed reduce costs. If only the president meant it. Or understood it. In a free market, a [...]
Pregnancy a Big Difference in ‘Rita Rocks’
Lou Diamond Phillips is taking a breather, “waiting for my marching orders from ‘Stargate Universe’” — and getting in some much-wanted family time. It’s been a couple of years of back-to-back projects for the actor-director — projects that couldn’t have been much more different from each other, from King Arthur in his year-and-a-half “Camelot” stage [...]
Hollywood Exclusive: Shark Tank, The Hills
If you thought “The Hills” was full of drama before, Kristin Cavallari tells us you ain’t see nothing yet! The former “Laguna Beach” star has taken the place of Lauren Conrad on the MTV show, which returns for a new season Sept. 28, and she’s already stirring the pot. “I didn’t really watch ‘The Hills’ [...]
The Get-Cheney Squad
“Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell’s truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the “rough men” who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, went too far in frightening [...]
A Test of Kennedy Currency
If you read the newspapers or watch the news, you will encounter a long list of accomplishments by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. One thing you’re less likely to hear, however, is that in his death, Kennedy proved Rush Limbaugh right. In March, the talk-show host and bete noir of progressives everywhere said that [...]
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