Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law may actually earn its nickname as the state considers an Education Department proposal to ban almost all instruction about LGBT issues in all grades. When Florida lawmakers passed H.B. 1557 last year with the support and encouragement of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the text of the bill forbid educators and […]
The Cuban national baseball team lost to the United States 14–2 in the World Baseball Classic semifinals Sunday night in Miami. But that’s not all it lost. Bullpen catcher Iván Prieto didn’t join his teammates as they flew back to the communist island on Monday, staying in Miami, reported Pelota Cubana, which broke the story. […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has rejected Florida’s request to let it enforce the “Stop WOKE Act”—officially known as the Individual Freedom Act—while the state appeals a lower court ruling that partially enjoined the statute. Signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in April 2022, the law prohibits private employers […]
A Florida bill introduced last month that aims to suppress ‘woke’ ideas in public colleges and universities just got worse. On Wednesday, legislators filed an updated version of the measure, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), that seeks to limit academic freedom in Florida’s public colleges. The new version of the bill expands the list […]
Five years ago, Ron DeSantis was laying out his border policy bona fides on his living room floor. “Build the wall!” he encouraged his young daughter as the two stacked colorful cardboard blocks in a campaign ad. At that point, DeSantis was Florida’s top candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination (and then-President Donald Trump’s man […]
Kary Jarvis spent more than a year behind bars after a traffic stop left two Daytona Beach, Florida, police officers injured and Jarvis facing multiple felony charges. But when a judge finally saw video of the stop and what followed she ruled that “Mr. Jarvis was unlawfully detained after his first denial of consent. Had […]
Welcome to our regime of political capitalism, where merit matters but political connections matter even more. In an unalloyed capitalist system, money flows to those who offer goods and services of value to consumers. In a political capitalism system, money flows to special interest groups with friends in high places. In his 2018 book Political […]
Two Clearwater, Florida, paramedics, who weren’t named by media, have been suspended after pronouncing a man dead when he wasn’t actually dead. Phebe Maxwell called for help when her father went into cardiac arrest. When the paramedics arrived, they took his pulse and pronounced him dead even as Phebe pointed out he was still breathing. […]
A recent bill filed in the Florida Senate has been receiving a torrent of backlash—including from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who the bill is supposedly meant to protect. SB 1316, introduced last week by Rep. Jason Brodeur (R-10), would require any “blogger” who makes money off posts related to the state’s governor, lieutenant governor, cabinet […]