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One Dead in Orlando Shooting (Update #7)

November 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Breaking News: The Orlando Sentinel and other media outlets are reporting that eight people have been injured in a shooting incident in downtown Orlando.  Is it a copycat shooting less than 24 hours after the massacre at Fort Hood?  Developing…
UDPATE #1 11/6/09 at 11:55 p.m. Central: Fox News is reporting that the shootings took place [...]

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Tea Party Express II Kicks Off 38-City Tour

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Lloyd Marcus, the Deltona, Fla.-based singer-songwriter who first appeared in a post on this blog March 19, appeared on Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends program Sunday to promote Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day.
In the video above, Marcus teams up with the group’s chairman, Mark Williams, to promote the conservative activism tour [...]

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HUD Secretary Promises Help to Floridians Impacted by Hazardous Chinese Drywall

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan promised weary and impatient homeowners in Florida “help is on the way” for them in dealing with the impact caused by the use of defective building materials — specifically, Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes and corrodes pipes — in the construction of their homes.
That news, according to [...]

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Let the College Football Season Begin With Humor

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Ardent fans of superstar quarterbacks like Florida’s Tim Tebow, Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford and Texas’ Colt McCoy might soon find themselves falling into a trap similar to one that members of the Obama Administration and Congress found themselves earlier this year — that is, they’ll be telling their buddies that their team’s star quarterback is, like [...]

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AARP Losing Ground at Town Hall Meetings

August 19th, 2009 · No Comments

According to news reports like this one, as many as 60,000 people have canceled their AARP memberships since a Dallas-area town hall meeting on health care reform Aug. 6 went terribly wrong. If the video below, from a town hall forum held yesterday in Brevard County, Fla., is any indication, things aren’t getting much better [...]

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