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ObamaCare update: Florida AG Bondi upbeat

2012-03-27T21:37:48+00:00

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi likes the overall tilt of questioning—an indication of the justice’s leanings, say SCOTUS watchers—in the second day of oral arguments over ObamaCare.

“Today we defended Americans’ individual liberty by arguing that the federal government cannot force us to purchase private health insurance from cradle to…

Annoyed Nugent: Jobs bill way overdue

2012-03-27T21:30:36+00:00

The mood of Congressman Rich Nugent (R-Brooksville) reflects relief, not joy, following Tuesday’s final passage of the so-called JOBS Act.

“It’s about time. Months ago, the House passed, in a series of near-unanimous votes, a set of bills designed to help small businesses raise private capital. The Senate never debated…

Stripped Fasano unbowed by ‘schoolyard bully’

2012-02-01T21:53:49+00:00

Fired twice from influential posts in the Republican-led state Senate today, Mike Fasano lashed back at trigger-pulling Senate President Mike Haridopolos, comparing him to a “schoolyard bully.”

The pair are waging a prolonged feud over a leadership plan to privatize Florida’s prisons. Minutes after Senate leaders called off a vote…

Limbaugh pokes Weatherford; “desperate,” says Will

2012-01-30T19:00:00+00:00

The Jax Files never thought it would see the day when Wesley Chapel’s Will Weatherford would be at the heart of a Rush Limbaugh diatribe, but that day has arrived. (We’re so proud!)
Closing out his first hour Monday, Limbaugh eviscerated the Republican state House Speaker-Designate for being a…

We’d think this was just nutty ...

2012-01-23T21:52:06+00:00

... if it weren’t downright onerous (from state Sen. Mike Fasano’s Tallahassee office):

Senator Mike Fasano’s Professional Sports Blackout Ban Was Adopted in the Senate Community Affairs Committee Today
State Senator Mike Fasano announces that his Senate Bill 836, which will fine professional sports teams that black out…

Obama rejects Keystone pipeline

2012-01-18T22:40:30+00:00

... and U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent (R-Brooksville) is not amused.

Following the President’s rejection of the Keystone pipeline application, Rep. Rich Nugent (FL-05) issued the following statement:

“It is one thing to promise the American people that your stimulus programs will create millions of jobs and then fail to deliver. …

Fasano’s end game: No more NFL in Florida

2011-11-04T22:46:05+00:00

Taking aim at the National Football League while pushing his gift for populist grandstanding to new heights, Mike Fasano files a feel-good bill he knows will never get out of committee.

I mean, his heart is in the right place. It’s infuriating that the NFL orders…

The silence of the NLRB

2011-10-31T21:00:08+00:00

While I join the Obama administration in applauding Boeing’s decision to open a space-venture operation on Florida’s east coast, in hangers recently vacated by NASA, the cynic in me wonders where the National Labor Relations Board is in all this.

After all, Florida—like South Carolina—is a right-to-work state. That is,…

Another lefty talking point bites the dust

2011-10-23T12:33:41+00:00

So, about that addition to the national debt linked to the war in Iraq (the animating trigger for the Arab Spring that may yet extend to Syria and the mischief-making Persians in Iran, but never mind—Bush lied, blah-blah-blah).

Anyway, enough already about how much it cost in terms of borrowed…

On Rubio, Washington Post earns three Pinnochios

2011-10-21T21:31:43+00:00

This just in: The Washington Post needs to fact-check its fact-checkers. Or so says the Miami Herald, which offers a thoroughgoing takedown of Manuel Roig-Franzia’s front-page piece disputing a key portion of the Marco Rubio legend—that he is the son of Cuban exiles.

Citing a swift response in the Miami…