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Chan Lowe

• Chan Lowe: Gov. Scott and the voter I.D. law

  It’s gratifying to watch Gov. Luthor slowly find his civic sea legs. Back when he first took office at the beginning of 2011, the political novice had decided to go it alone. His experience as a corporate chieftain surrounded by toadies had taught him, wrongly, that a state could be [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Manti Te'o, Lance Armstrong and gun control

  I’ve noticed that people tend to pay more attention if you can somehow work a sports theme into your message. It’s no accident that politicians lard their language with stomach-turning clichés like “home run,” “full-court press,” “move the ball down the field,” and “game changer” in an attempt to add [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Allen West moves on to a new career

  I’m stretching Allen West’s fifteen minutes of fame, because I so hate to see him go. He’s signing on with some Internet TV network where he can employ his, um, oratorical skills to indoctrinate young people. This makes me wonder if his job as a U.S. Congressman may have been [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Obama's cabinet picks

  Presidential staffing is where symbolism and pragmatism collide. It’s also where the dual nature of the presidency—as head of state and head of government—becomes most problematic for the occupant. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The Second Amendment revisited

  I saw the recently released NRA ad this morning, the one targeting the president’s daughters and calling him an elitist hypocrite for keeping armed guards around them while “our” children have to settle for gun-free school zones. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Sneak peek at new Dolphins logo

  I’ll admit that I take a contrarian view on the subject of taxpayer funding of sports venues. Just about everyone I know follows professional sports. These people, I’ve found, are adept at coming up with sophisticated-sounding economic rationales for why we peons should help billionaire team owners avoid risking their [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Real estate prices and global warming

  Our real estate reporter, Paul Owers, works right next to me here in the offices of the Daily Planet. For the past several years I have kiddingly called him the Prince of Darkness, the Angel of Doom and other smart-aleck sobriquets, since his beat has comprised a relentless litany of [...]
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• Chan Lowe: FAU prof's Sandy Hook conspiracy theory

  I can’t pretend to know what Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy is thinking when he promotes his idea that there’s a conspiracy afoot to hide the truth about what really happened at Sandy Hook. There’s an odor of disingenuousness about his claim that he’s simply trying to “get students [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Ryan co-sponsors fetal personhood bill

  The above concept might be difficult for even Wayne LaPierre of the NRA to pull off, but I’m sure the party that dreamed up state-mandated trans-vaginal probes can come up with a solution. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The great Florida python hunt

  Near the end of his life, John Steinbeck grabbed his poodle and set off across the country in a home-built camper named Rocinante to travel among the American people and get a sense of what animated them. The result was a book titled Travels With Charley . [...]
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