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Mike Huckabee Spells Out Designs for His New Show

Keith Richards and Mike Huckabee? Well, that’s what the former Arkansas Governor cum Fox News personality would like to see. He tells us that the Rolling Stones guitar legend is at the top of his list of dream guests for his new daily “The Huckabee Show” that begins its six-week test run July 26 on seven Fox stations…

The Real Sin of Michael Steele

“This was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.” Strictly speaking, Republican Party Chair Michael Steele was way off base when he made this remark at a closed-door meeting of party contributors in Connecticut. For the war began in 2001 under George [...]

Crist Raises $1.8 Million, Greene Spends $5.8 Million

Crist’s campaign pointed to a large increase in small-internet donors since he left the GOP, saying that its online contributions had increased 650 percent since he announced his NPA run. Crist’s campaign trumpeted his total cash-on-hand as much as his quarterly take. Buoyed by money he got when Rubio looked like a quixotic long shot…

Look Who’s Talking

Rescuing itself from the obscurity it richly deserves, the NAACP has found a way back onto the front page: accuse the tea party movement of harboring racists. At its Kansas City convention, NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous declaimed: “Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks, or take the responsibility for them and their [...]

The War on Arizona

Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union. Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to desegregate. But Barack Obama’s war on Arizona is not a war of necessity. [...]

Is Democracy Overrated?

With the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and the Soviet Union, and Beijing’s abandonment of Maoism, anti-communism necessarily ceased to be the polestar of U.S. foreign policy. For many, our triumph fairly cried out for a bottom-up review of all the alliances created to fight that Cold War and a return to a policy of [...]

The Cummer Offers a New Take on Art

s I grew up, I lost the ability (or realized I might not have ever had it) to paint. But I never grew tired of looking at art, and figured visiting an art museum in Jacksonville was something I should definitely do. So I made my way over to the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, after visiting their website and discovering the free admission on Tuesdays from 4pm to close…