Politics

In his speech last night, Barack Obama said We’ve certainly had our differences over the last sixteen months. But as someone who’s shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning — even in the face of tough odds — is exactly what sent [...]

Yesterday, 30- members of the Democratic National Committee decided that it would seat Florida’s delegation to the party convention, but that each delegate would get only half a vote. Alcee Hastings says he will boycott the convention. Back in 1968, at its convention in Chicago, the Democratic Party similarly dismissed the voters of several Southern [...]

Florida came into the union in 1845 as a slave state. Back  when the Constitution was written, northern states wanted to limit the number of Congressmen the southern states had, so they wrote in a requirement that only 3/5 of slaves be counted towards determining how many Representatives a state got. Now folks refer back [...]

The Libertarian Party in convention in Denver have nominated former Georgia congressman Bob Barr as its presidential candidate. Barr left the Republican Party in 2006 citing what he called reckless spending and civil liberties violations by the Bush Administration. Stay tuned. Update – here’s the news release from the party: Denver – The Libertarian Party [...]