U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy’s endorsement of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for president is noteworthy. Current Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are locked in a bitter feud for the progressive wing…
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Orlando Sentinel: Trump’s ‘fireside tweets’ a far cry from FDR
With the president finishing up each chat with an appeal to God or Providence and a request to the American people to face the issues with resolute patience and faith, Roosevelt’s bedtime Fireside manner was…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: FAIR WAGES IN FLORIDA
John Morgan’s successful entry into the campaign to put fair wages on the 2020 Florida ballot brings into the dialogue an effective, principled and well-heeled change agent with a history of successful advocacy. Studies have…
No sense of decency: Kavanaugh’s Army–McCarthy moment
We survived the venom of the Army-McCarthy hearings. And we will survive the debacle of the Kavanaugh hearings. American exceptionalism demands it. After all, American exceptionalism is real, and it will continue to be real….
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: FINISH THE JOB
With the highest court in the nation upholding the rights of a state to pass reasonable firearm restrictions without Second Amendment concerns and a national tidal wave of sentiment coalescing as tens of thousands of…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: KUDOS, CHARLIE GRAY
Tallahassee’s failure to pass common-sense gun-reform legislation increasing the minimum age for owning a rifle to 21 years old and banning assault weapons for civilian use is a national disgrace. Mass shootings at Orlando’s Pulse…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: THE PAST IS PAST
George Orwell’s influential “1984” bellowed, among other notable quotes like “Big Brother is Watching You,” one also particularly prescient in this topsy-turvy age in which Southern states desperately try to rewrite the Civil War as…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TAX-REFORM A BOON FOR ENTREPRENEURS
A decade ago, tech-centric small-business workplaces were limited to just one: the UCF Incubator. Today, Canvs, Catalyst, Orlando Tech, Fire-Spring Fund and Starter Studio have also created their own ecosystems, soon to be joined by Pipeline…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: Tyranny of the Majority
When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his prescient tome in 1835, Democracy in America, little did he know how prophetic it would turn out to be for 21st century America…Read More Originally posted for the Orlando…
18-year-old walks into gun store. Presto! He buys assault weapon
My younger son the other day told me a harrowing story about a friend of his, a high-school senior who just turned 18, who was hell-bent on buying a gun … Read more