It’s not every day I find myself agreeing with Sarah Palin. I am slightly horrified by it. But, I agree that it is premature and presumptuous for the Republican establishment, most of whom support Mitt Romney, to call for the other candidates to throw in the towel and for Republicans to fall in line behind Romney.
With the 2012 election creeping ever closer to home, one question remains: Where have all the young voters gone?
This we believe to the core of our Miami souls:
Egyptians are sweeping up in Tahrir Square after celebrations marking the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 launch of their revolution. In a few days, on Feb. 11, they will mark another milestone, one year since hundreds of thousands of protestors toppled President Hosni Mubarak, who had held power for almost 30 years.
Televised candidate debates have become the marquee spectacles of presidential campaigns. By the time Republicans vote in the Florida primary, candidates seeking the party’s presidential nomination will have debated 19 times since May. That’s 30-some hours of live national TV, plus untold hours of recap, recrimination and chatter spun off by the events.
As a region internationally recognized for our multicultural diversity, it is important for South Floridians to acknowledge our evolution from an insular society blemished by discrimination and exclusion to a flourishing community committed to integration and inclusion. It is only by exposing and examining our collective history that we can fully mitigate the legacy of past injustices and help build a promising future for everyone.
We live in a community that cares for its own. When hurricanes strike, when economies collapse, when refugees come to our shores, we have always taken care of our neighbors. No institution embodies that spirit more than Jackson Health System.
At the moment, days before the GOP primary, it feels as though Floridians are bystanders at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade of Politics.
In the 15 states that are likely to decide who controls the White House and the Senate in 2013, Hispanic voters will represent the margin of victory.
Storage places are cropping up faster than fast-food restaurants — a real sign of the times. Like many who had their homes foreclosed on or have been through the “short sale” process I had to store half of my worldly possessions in a storage unit. Along with the couches, lawn furniture and boxes loaded with Christmas decor many of one’s hopes and aspirations also lay passively in the sterile, mildly air-conditioned 10-foot by 10-foot space.
When I was your age . . .”
Miami-Dade County Public Schools has a long history of inviting the examination of our efforts to improve service to the community. We’ve been under the microscopes of prominent national organizations such as the Broad Prize, which this year, for the fourth time, named our district as a finalist — one of four among 15,000 school districts nationwide; the College Board, which lauded our Advanced Placement success; and the Council of the Great City Schools, which presented us just last week with the coveted Award for Excellence in Financial Management.
As Israelis look at developments around them, they have reason to be concerned. Hezbollah in the north is arming itself, while Hamas in the south is a constant threat. Bashar al-Assad is butchering his Syrian countrymen, and one wonders whether it’s worse for such a bloody dictator to remain in power amid a fragile stability, or for him to go, opening up a Pandora’s box as in Iraq.
The State of the Union address that President Obama delivered Tuesday was, in a sense, the first formal speech of his re-election campaign. It was his chance to wedge himself into the noise of the Republican primary campaign for 66 minutes of uninterrupted television time, and he took advantage of it.
They likened him to a traitor. They hinted darkly that he might suffer violence because of his actions in office. They said they wanted him fired.
Whoever places his hand on the Bible next January to be sworn in as president will take an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” and provide for the common defense of our country. Keeping that oath will require a commitment to American leadership in an ever-changing world.
One way to to judge where the Arab uprisings are headed, a year after they erupted, is to consider the case of Mickey Mouse with a beard.
The Archie Bunker wing of the Republican Party, whose mental cheese slid off its cracker when a guy with the middle name Hussein advanced to the presidency, doesn’t just want to see the GOP win back the White House. They want to see Barack Obama punished — humiliated, even. And so they’ve spent the last year fishing for a candidate who’ll get onstage during a debate and call Obama a Kenyan Socialist to his face.
We in the media make an inviting target, and Newt Gingrich is locked and loaded. Talk about your Second Amendment remedies. Just ask Juan Williams and Chris Wallace of Fox News and CNN’s John King.
As multimillion-dollar Super PAC ads begin airing statewide, Floridians are getting a firsthand look at how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has changed presidential elections.
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