Gubernatorial Hopefuls Split on Investigating RPOF Credit Cards
The three leading candidates to replace Gov. Charlie Crist next year offered different advice on whether or not the state should investigate credit card use at the Republican Party under former chairman Jim Greer. Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, a Democrat, said Monday that Attorney General Bill McCollum should launch an investigation into the party’s [...]
Tarmac Rules Get Flights Dropped
The nation’s recent onslaught of flight cancellations is a harbinger of what passengers can expect from airlines looking to avoid new multimillion-dollar fines for leaving people stranded on grounded planes in bad weather, according to federal data and aviation experts. The government announced in December it would fine airlines $27,500 per passenger for long tarmac [...]
Ports Ready for Wider Panama Canal
NEW ORLEANS – Port officials from Savannah, Ga., to Mobile, Ala., to Long Beach are moving full steam ahead to expand and modernize their ports. The eyed prize: luring anticipated increased ship traffic and bigger ships sailing through a widened Panama Canal, which is scheduled to open in 2014. “Those who are best prepared when [...]
Crist Aiming to Leave a Mark on His Final Session
In two weeks, Gov. Charlie Crist will embark on his final legislative session in Tallahassee, his last chance to push through an agenda that could be his legacy when he vacates the governor’s mansion in January 2011. He’s laid out a few proposals for the spring session, tweaking a class size provision in the constitution [...]
Obama Panders to the Feminists
Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth around” doesn’t mean only higher taxes on taxpayers and more handouts to non-taxpayers. More especially, it means transfers of financial goodies to the president’s political allies. The American people were rightfully outraged when it became known that Sens. Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson were rewarded for voting for Obamacare with [...]
Secession is in the Air
No, it is not 1860 again. But with all the talk of the 10th Amendment, nullification and interposition, states rights and secession — following Gov. Rick Perry’s misstatement that Texas, on entering the Union in 1845, reserved in its constitution a right to secede — one might think so. Chalk up another one for those [...]
The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe
They are called the PIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. What brought the PIGS to the edge of the abyss? All are neo-socialist states that provide welfare for poor people, [...]
On Sports: The Way It Is
The concept of adding a “gas gauge” to the Jacksonville Jaguars website is brilliant. Keeping the fans and media in touch with what is going on with ticket sales is a step in the right direction. The gauge, which began on Friday, will follow the pace of regular-season ticket sales. To sell out the general [...]
Bob Menendez and His Wedge Question Strategy
Last week I discussed the strategy of Sen. Bob Menendez, head of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, who advised his candidates to frame their opponents in a negative light by asking a series of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t “wedge” questions designed to drive away what Menendez sees as key Republican voting blocks. As silly as his questions [...]
Robin Lumb: Job Creation 101
President Obama finally got religion last week and swore off health care “reform” long enough to talk about job creation. Notice I said he’s decided to “talk” about job creation. That’s because talk is all he’s good at. Here’s the rub: President Obama doesn’t know the first thing about job creation because he’s never worked [...]
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