The Mike Thomas Blog

Sen. Charlie Crist

Mike Thomas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:25 -0400

Charlie hit the mother-lode with more than $4 million in campaign cash, compared to $340K for Marco Rubio. The big-money conservative donors had been sitting on the sidelines waiting for these numbers before committing to Marco. Now that they've seen...

The Brightest Bush: A must-read for Jeb fans and foes.

Mike Thomas — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:12:58 -0400

This link is to a lengthy interview of Jeb Bush by Tucker Carlson for Esquire. Agree with him or not, you can't argue with the man's IQ and his vision for the future. He also is the only Republican with...

Why the climate-change bill won't work.

Mike Thomas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:26:39 -0400

Yet another report, this one in the Washington Post (leading neo-con paper), about what this climate-change bill from the House actually accomplishes. Note up high were the report says of the bill, "It runs to more than 1,400 pages, swollen...

Are smart kids getting left behind in school.

Mike Thomas — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:16:31 -0400

My Sunday column about smart kids getting left behind as more focus is put on struggling students certainly got a lot of response. Here is a St. Petersburg Times piece about a 2006 teacher survey that backs up information in...

Climate-change bill boondoggle

Mike Thomas — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:02:13 -0400

This is what I've been talking about in my column and blog entries about the House bill. It is nothing but a bunch of compromises, giveaways and handouts. It puts off hard decisions and in the end will accomplish nothing....

More details on heroic Maitland dad

Mike Thomas — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:46:42 -0400

This link is to the Ashville Times, the newspaper that covers the area where Michael Grady drowned saving his son, Austin. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090630/NEWS01/906300335

Greatest food movies of all time

Mike Thomas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:32:19 -0400

Julie & Julia is coming to a theater near you, the story of Julia Childs and her greatest fan. It has to be a great movie with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. But how will it rank with the food...

Obama acting like Bush on climate change.

Mike Thomas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:07:24 -0400

As you may recall, the Bush Administration was heavily criticized for squelching scientific studies that boosted the argument for human-caused global warming. Most notably, a muzzle supposedly was slapped on James Hansen of NASA, an outspoken advocate of the theory....

I can't believe Keith Richards outlived Michael Jackson.

Mike Thomas — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:08:20 -0400

Maybe he'll buy his bones.

Destroying the planet in my Prius

Mike Thomas — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:47:14 -0400

Ooops, too bad I didn't read this before buying...But I must challenge the bit at the end about the expected lifespan of the Prius being 100K miles. I've read where Prius taxis are getting 300K plus on the original batteries....