Political pro from Jax earns national acclaim
She’s well known in Jacksonville, but the national media has just discovered Susie Wiles. Over the past 30 years, Wiles has been a figure with a large and growing impact on local, state and national politics. She was with JEA, before it ran off the rails, and served in two mayoral administrations. As Mayor John […]
Florida is ripe for staffing Trump’s new administration
Politico ran a story with the very encouraging headline, “Florida looks like a Trump administration staffing agency.” It’s still early. But during the pandemic, under the leadership of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida emerged as the nation’s conservative government in exile. Florida resisted the Biden Agenda early, consistently, and often, and ignored corporate media’s nonstop […]
Making America Healthy Again!
The New York Times ran a fretful story headlined, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Foe of Drug Makers and Regulators, Is Poised to Wield New Power.” Robert Kennedy is enjoying a singular moment. Against all odds, turning the tables on all expectations, after a lifetime of languishing in the wilderness, mocked as a looney conspiracy theorist, […]
Football game ‘brutality’ was not
Cop-haters have no use for the police, or law and order, so they were quick to slander several police officers for doing their job at the Florida-Georgia football game Saturday. The annual event is a legendary rivalry that heightens fan passions and there is also alcohol in play. It has long been called America’s “largest […]
The Restoration
Mark 2024 on your calendar as the year America stood up and said, “No more.” The liberal, Far Left, socialist, communist coalition is not dead, but it is bruised and battered. Has it learned a lesson? No. The anti-Americans will continue to try to ruin this nation, which represents the pinnacle of civilization. But they […]
Initial voter dislike of voting machines apparently has subsided
For whatever reason, early voters in Jacksonville had problems with the Express Vote machines. But the elections supervisor said they managed to overcome it quickly. “When I early voted my express vote caught in the machine and destroyed my ballot. I then had to fill out a paper ballot. It made me nervous and felt […]
Florida isn’t a swing state anymore – thanks to DeSantis
The New York Times ran a highly gratifying but deceptive story that still made my morning, headlined, “Florida Stopped Being a Swing State Slowly, Then All At Once.” Ha! The post-pandemic swing was to +1,000,000 red voters. That headline is encouraging enough, but the sub-headline added: “Once a top presidential battleground, Florida is no longer […]
This is the Big One
Every four years, it seems, someone declares the presidential election to be the most important ever held. This year it may be true. There seems no doubt that America is at a crossroads. It can choose “progressiveness,” or real progress. Eight years ago, the nation began a recovery from the Obama calamity but four years […]
Newspaper ‘guidance’ on candidates sometimes goes awry
Jeff Bezos torpedoed the anticipated endorsement of Kamala Harris by the liberal Washington Post, and it wasn’t the first time there was a fuss over selecting a candidate. WaPo announced it will make no endorsement in the presidential race. It didn’t do endorsements until it supported Jimmy Carter in 1976, with the exception of 1952. […]
Rise and fall of a special taxing district
Last May, the City Council created the Hogpen Creek Dependent Taxing District. It soon will be abolished. The sponsor of the bill creating the district – according to council records — was Councilman Rory Diamond. The sponsor of the bill abolishing the district also is Councilman Rory Diamond. But Diamond, the council member for the […]