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Parent trigger bill may be unstoppable this year, paper reports
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelDemocrats in the Florida Legislature say there looks to be little they can do to stop the “parent trigger” bill this year, The Miami Herald reported yesterday. The bill was pushed by Republicans last year but was narrowly defeated in the... -
Dave Barry has snakes on the brain
As is widely stipulated, Dave Barry is a very funny guy. He was hysterical when he wrote his nationally syndicated column for the Miami Herald, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and is arguably even more droll in his madcap novels set in South...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Religion and Belief, Al Capone, USA Today
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Manti Te'o and looking down at the Screen Decade
You are missing the point. Or at least, you are if you're one of the bazillion people following the Manti Te'o story, dutifully trying to determine whether the Notre Dame football star was the victim or the perpetrator of a bizarre hoax. Granted, the...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Manti Te'o, Entertainment Events, Diane O'Meara, Human Interest
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COLUMN: Not everything is better in the Screen Decade
You are missing the point. Or at least, you are if you’re one of the bazillion people following the Manti Te’o story, dutifully trying to determine whether the Notre Dame football star was the victim or the perpetrator of a bizarre hoax....Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Diane O'Meara, Human Interest, Heisman Trophy
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Mayo on Florida Roundup on WLRN-91.3 at noon Friday
Sun SentinelI'll be on my favorite local radio show today, The Florida Roundup, on the local NPR affiliate, WLRN-91.3 FM, from noon-1 p.m. Topics include Florida state worker pensions, the Dolphins stadium renovations, voting fixes and the rest of the week's top...Tags: Radio, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Entertainment, NPR, NBC (tv network)
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No, Martin Luther King would not have endorsed Gun Appreciation Day
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...Tags: Black History, Shootings, Henry Ford, Civil Rights, Rush Limbaugh
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U.S. hiding behind tortured definitions
If it is true, as the writer Samuel Johnson once said, that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," then the dictionary must be the first. Consider how readily our leaders, in justifying what cannot be justified, parse definitions down to...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Bill Clinton, U.S. Department of Justice, Sleep Deprivation, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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No Labels, no excuses
Last week, at a meeting in New York, it was announced that a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers have agreed to get together once in a while and chat. This made news nationwide. Does that not tell you all you need to know about the sorry...
Tags: Justice System, Philosophy, U.S. Congress, Elections, Republican Party
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A new GOP, or just a cosmetic touchup?
Maybe the party is finally over. Meaning not simply the Grand Old Party, but more specifically the bacchanal of the bizarre and carnival of crazy to which it has lately devolved. So obvious has this devolution become that even Republican stalwarts...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Philosophy, POLITICO LLC, Ted Nugent, Politics
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At the Carmike: Father risks everything for son in 'Snitch'
OPENING FRIDAY Snitch Starring Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt and Barry Pepper, "Snitch" is a fast-paced action thriller. Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at...
Tags: Emma Thompson, Die Hard (movie), A Good Day to Die Hard (movie), Richard LaGravenese, John Moore
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Never ever, ever, ever — oops
A few words to ponder as we sail toward the "fiscal cliff." Those words would be: "That was then, this is now." Strip away the false piety and legalistic hair splitting offered by Republican lawmakers rationalizing their decision to abandon a pledge...Tags: Justice System, Democratic Party, U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff, Elections
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Instagram, X specs and a Kevin Bacon premiere
As traffic continues to flow to coverage of Super Bowl preparations, the Roe vs. Wade anniversary and post-inaugural activities, a few newer topics have also bubbled to the surface in our collective consciousness. Instagram is posting impressive numbers,...
Tags: Reginald F. Lewis Museum, NFC Championship Game, Baltimore Ravens, Xbox 360, Entertainment
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