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Pierre Tristam | January 31, 2010
By linking abortion with a life fully lived, Tebow is pretending to tell us something about the mysteries of life’s origins that nobody knows — not Tebow, not Pope Benedict, not Stephen Hawking, not my pet ferret, if I had one.
FlaglerLive | January 29, 2010
Marco Rubio says the nation should adopt his Florida Health Choices, claiming its market approach is “happening right now.” He’s wrong. Florida Health Choices has yet to insure anyone.
FlaglerLive | January 29, 2010
J.D. Salinger catches the final rye, Obama takes flack over Israel in Tampa, NASA and Alito take Obama’s flack, and free will gets a $4.4 million grant.
FlaglerLive | January 28, 2010
Philip A. Farruggio argues that the United States is forgetting the lessons of 1930s Germany–and Sinclair Lewis’ prophetic warnings–at its own risk.
FlaglerLive | January 28, 2010
State of the Union recaps, the everyday whines of jihadists, filibuster chic, Holocaust propaganda and the latest from Frank Luntz.
Pierre Tristam | January 28, 2010
There’s too much reaching for the old magic–which is just the problem: this lunge for “magic,” this desire to make the impossible real, when it should be the other way around.
FlaglerLive | January 28, 2010
“We don’t quit. I don’t quit. Let’s seize this moment — to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more,” Obama concluded in his first State of the Union speech.
FlaglerLive | January 27, 2010
Homophobe-bashing in Miami, FCAT-bashing in Tallahassee, Tebow-bashing everywhere, and more.
FlaglerLive | January 25, 2010
Cartoons over Haiti, bullying policies at St. Augustine’s movie theaters, Britain’s prison ships and Obama’s middle class agenda–and more.
Pierre Tristam | January 24, 2010
A wonderful shot by T. Paige Dalporto on Kayford Mountain, coveted by Massey Energy for destruction, for a few lumps of coal.
FlaglerLive | January 23, 2010
One in six working-age adult is out of work in Flagler County, the highest proportion in the county’s history.
Pierre Tristam | January 23, 2010
Crist rediscovers his inner Everglades, a chimp in the middle of a custody battle
FlaglerLive | January 21, 2010
Florida’s worsening economy, pay lanes on I-4, tax breaks for Hollywood, Fox’s niggardly viewers, and more.
FlaglerLive | January 20, 2010
What else: Scott Brown’s upset in Massachusetts, military’s drilling in Florida, children’s online addiction, the anti-enlightenment and more.
FlaglerLive | January 19, 2010
What Publix isn’t doing for unemployment, why Jacksonville is going to pot, why gays are abandoning South Beach, and more.
FlaglerLive | January 18, 2010
Why John Yoo got the better of John Stewart, Tim Tebow’s quarterbacking for the dark side, papery tax in Florida, and more.
Pierre Tristam | January 15, 2010
Sarah Palin’s round of Fox News foxholes landed her in Glenn Beck’s hole within obsequious distance of the Statue of Liberty (the Lady had no choice). The chat was vaguely lecherous.
FlaglerLive | January 15, 2010
A 30-image photo gallery of the devastation following the 7.0 earthquake that demolished Haiti’s Port au Prince the afternoon of Jan. 12.
Pierre Tristam | January 15, 2010
Well beyond earthquake relief, an American commitment to independence and democracy in Haiti would not be a favor, a gift or an indulgence. It would be the down payment of an incalculable debt long overdue.
FlaglerLive | January 15, 2010
Playboy’s history, good news for Health News Florida, the bad news of big coal and big oil, and good riddance to Conan.
Pierre Tristam | January 15, 2010
The Omaha World Herald’s sanctimony over a skin-tone cartoon is more offensive than Harry Reid’s misjudgment.
FlaglerLive | January 14, 2010
Florida’s $3 billion budget deficit, FPL and Progress Energy’s rate hike denials, an odd leap in Floridians’ education, and more.
FlaglerLive | January 12, 2010
Cold clobbers Florida crops, Rubio clobbers Crist, New Jersey wisens up on pot, and more.
FlaglerLive | January 11, 2010
On the fates of Rahm Emanuel, Ali Khamenei, Hitler, Progress Energy, and Florida’s cheap health insurer for the poor.
FlaglerLive | January 10, 2010
Palm Coast’s 14-screen movie theater is rising fast in Town Center, but questions remain whether the county can support a major cineplex.
FlaglerLive | January 9, 2010
GE Capital wants its own receiver to take over Black Crow Media and recover GE’s $38.9 million loan.
FlaglerLive | January 8, 2010
Why al-Qaeda is failing and winning, why the right-wing is going off the cliff, why Florida’s lawmakers are loons, and more.
FlaglerLive | January 7, 2010
Whaling, racists and crazy cops thrive, manatees, the poor and good sense don’t.
FlaglerLive | January 6, 2010
The GOP’s moderate troubles in Florida, the Dolphins’ latest tax scheming, the Marlins’ latest stitching, and the trouble with happy talk.
FlaglerLive | January 6, 2010
Betelgeuse really is a big star. If placed at the center of our Solar System it would extend to the orbit of Jupiter.
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