Time for Rubio to “get right” on immigration, Creationism — or his Cuban surname won’t help The national Republican Party, casting about for ways to mend its abysmal track record with Americans of Hispanic descent, ought not pin its hopes quite so naively on Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. There’s no such thing as a [...]
View PostObama can “do the right thing” if he chooses. I met Barack Obama shortly after his 2004 landslide election to Illinois’ U.S. Senate seat. He was standing in the parking lot of the Rockford (IL) Register Star’s News Tower, alone. He’d just come down — likely to sneak a smoke — from his meeting with [...]
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Key West. Manhattan without the skyscrapers. It’s a comparison helpful in explaining why Key West isn’t Florida. The cheek-by-jowl closeness of houses whose neighbors share their breakfast flavors and domestic squabbles – and hear their toilets flush at bedtime. The dissonance of a dozen different languages and a hundred regional accents competing down Duval Street [...]
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