It should be no surprise that the congressman appearing alongside Donald Trump in Florida this weekend is: Allen West.
When asked during his campaign last year what question he would ask Obama, West said, "What passport did you use to go to Pakistan in 1981? That tells me everything about him."
[h/t Reid Epstein]
Everybody knows the secret to the city's bagels and pizza is the water, which why when the foolish among us depart for places like Boca and LA, the one thing they never stop kvetching about is the lack of good carbs. Well, Steven Fassberg of Palm Beach though he hit on the perfect solution, creating Read More
Behold this chart, assembled by the Washington Post, which depicts the heaviest concentration of American foreclosure activity.
The Las Vegas area is a gleaming red pockmark hanging from the southern tip of Nevada.
More frightening, the entire state of Florida has been transformed into a swollen, infected, blood orange appendage protruding into the ocean. Is Read More
An alleged gangster helped launder ill-gotten money for Scott Rothstein, the Florida lawyer who in December of 2009 turned himself in and in January copped to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money in connection with a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme he ran, Bloomberg reports.
Roberto Settineri on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a charge of money laundering conspiracy and got a 50-year sentence. He Read More
The alleged architect of an $880-million Ponzi scheme may have copped to the charge, The Associated Press reports.
According to prosecutors, Nevin Shapiro, the man behind already suspicious-sounding Capitol Investments USA, bilked more than 60 investors using the technique pioneered by Charles Ponzi in 1920 and perfected by Bernie Madoff through the 1990s and 2000s. And Read More
The more we learn about the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the more we ought to question the basic assumptions that led us here. Like the explosion of the housing bubble that ruptured the world economy, this human and environmental tragedy resulted from a system that encourages reckless profiteering without Read More
Texas is neck-and-neck with New York, trailing by only one percent in commercial real estate job postings, reflecting the underlying strength of the Texas markets Read More
Hillary Clinton just sent a formal public letter to Barack Obama calling on him to work to find a resolution to the Florida and Michigan question that reflects the votes in those states and seats their delegations at the convention. She also attempts to shame him for what she calls his failure to "support those Read More
The poll also shows McCain would beat Barack Obama in both Florida and Ohio:
FLORIDA: Clinton 49 - McCain 41; McCain Read More
Until now, his approach has essentially been to bury his head in the sand in the hope that the whole matter would just go away—which is would have, had Obama finished off Hillary Clinton is Tuesday's voting.
But with Read More
Barack Obama should support this aim.
Realistically, any Clinton nomination scenario at this point requires the inclusion of lopsidedly pro-Hillary delegations from Michigan Read More
But all indications were that it, Giuliani’s candidacy for president, was indeed over.
As he spoke in a half-filled ballroom at the Portafino hotel in Orlando, the back of the room where the press sat, and Read More
On her right as she waved from the stage was Bill Nelson, the state's Democratic senator. No problem there. On her right: Alcee Hastings, who has the distinction of being only the sixth federal judge in history to be impeached and removed from office. His dismissal Read More
In an interview this evening with Rudy Giuliani for a story for tomorrow’s paper, I asked him whether he would participate in Wednesday’s debate in California. “We are going to California,” he said. That has been what the campaign has said all day. When I asked Giuliani’s senior political analyst, Tony Carbonetti, this morning whether Read More
Republicans
John McCain: A win, even if it’s by a nose, will give the media license to declare him the clear national front-runner and should send much of the Republican rank-and-file, however reluctantly, into his camp, positioning him for a decisive string of victories on Super Read More
