Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage ended statewide at the stroke of midnight Monday, and court clerks in some Florida counties wasted no time, issuing marriage licenses overnight to same-sex couples. But they still were beaten to the punch by a Miami judge who found no need to wait until the statewide ban expired. Miami-Dade Circuit… [Read More]
Cuba celebrates ‘normalized relations’ by murdering refugees
Say this much for the Castro regime: they’re not making even the slightest pretense that their deal with Barack Obama was anything but total and complete American capitulation. It’s a wonder they didn’t tell Obama to attend a formal surrender ceremony. He might have been willing to do it. He did apologize to the Castro killers for how long… [Read More]
Police Gas Protesters in northern California following Outrage of murder of Eric Garner
Angry crowds hurled objects at police who retaliated in a second night of clashes in northern California following the death of a black man who was put in a chokehold by a New York police officer. Police fired gas after being targeted by what they called “explosives”. They moved in to clear roadways as protesters… [Read More]
Getting Worse: California police, protesters clash again after ‘chokehold’ death
Angry crowds hurled objects at police who retaliated in a second night of clashes in northern California following the death of a black man who was put in a chokehold by a New York police officer. Police fired gas after being targeted by what they called “explosives”. They moved in to clear roadways as protesters… [Read More]
Cop Caught Driving Drunk At 100 MPH In A Car Filled With Drugs
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes When police searched his vehicle, they found marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Miami police officer Christopher Vital was arrested Thursday morning in Miami Beach on suspicion of drunk driving and possession of drugs. Now he is facing charges for driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, possession of… [Read More]
Lift the Embargo – but Liberate Cuba First
Jeff Jacoby At a June 12 appearance in New York before the Council on Foreign Relations, Hillary Clinton made the familiar argument for ending the US trade embargo against Cuba, the same one critics of the policy have been making for years. “The embargo is Castro’s best friend,”the former secretary of state said; it provides… [Read More]
Why Americans Hate Big Business
Bruce Bialosky Big Business does some things that are utterly necessary in modern society. They build airplanes and cars. They run airlines, phone companies, credit card companies and banks. But there is not a person among us, including employees of big businesses, that has not withered with frustration from confronting these businesses with a problem… [Read More]
University: Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86
Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune. “I’m not modest,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out.” Her story awed millions. The young single mother who worked at strip… [Read More]
Mentally Ill Man Cooked To Death In Scalding Shower As Punishment By Prison Guards
A torturous “punishment” session turned fatal for a mentally-ill prisoner, when prison guards forced him to stand in a tiny shower stall while being blasted by scalding hot water until his skin began to shrivel away from his body and he died. Fellow inmates say he begged for his life before collapsing in the shower…. [Read More]
Miami’s Poor Live on $11 a Day as Boom Widens Wealth Gap
As the luxury bus ferried a dozen of his clients past building sites, Miami property consultant Peter Zalewski rattled off names of 50 area high-rises being financed by money from Venezuela, Hong Kong and Argentina. Blocks away, locals live on as little as $11 a day. It’s another boom in Miami, which has been at… [Read More]
Police Taser Killed Miami Teen Israel Hernandez, Confirms Medical Examiner (UPDATED)
A medical examiner has confirmed what killed a teenage artist who did not survive a controversial encounter with Miami Beach police: as first reported by the Miami Herald, it was the shock from an officer’s Taser, which produced “sudden cardiac death.” The conclusion — that a Taser is the primary cause of death — is… [Read More]
Clinton appeals to idealism of college students
Looking out to a theater full of motivated college students, Hillary Rodham Clinton said their generation showed great promise as “open-minded and tolerant” Americans ready to step forward for an important cause. “We are going to make sure the millennial generation really is the participation generation,” Clinton said in a speech at Arizona State University,… [Read More]