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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ participation in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day events last month at Piney Grove Boys Academy was a blessing for our small K-12 private school in Lauderdale Lakes. His call to expand educational choice opportunities for families showed that somebody is listening and understands our plight. Combined, we spent nearly a half-century as educators in Broward County public schools. When First Baptist Church Piney Grove Pastor, Rev. Derrick J. Hughes, asked us to set up the boys academy, we knew little of school choice.

These are harsh words for a Sunday morning, but the occasion screams out for them. I take them from the Bible; please forgive me. The Florida Legislature proved this past week, once and for all, that it is the utter Whore of Babylon. It is now legal in our state to pay off the Legislature directly. Who says so? The Legislature. This is not a joke. This is not satire. This is Florida — where the laws of our democracy are now openly, officially For Sale. On Thursday afternoon, with greedy lip-smacking speed, the Legislature voted to relegalize a bygone...

In a poll released today, 2.5% of registered Florida voters said they would vote for Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Alexander Snitker if the election were held today. Even more surprising is that the number jumped to 12% of likely voters who said they were familiar with Snitker. This is the first scientific poll to include Snitker. The poll, commissioned by the Snitker campaign and conducted by Telsel, Inc. of St. Augustine, surveyed 505 registered voters selected at random from the 2010 Florida Division of Elections database. Of the 505 respondents, 447 said they are likely to vote in the November...

I recently had the opportunity to interview Alexander Snitker, the Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate in Florida. My editor, who had heard Snitker speak at a campaign stop, gave me the assignment to interview him. “I want you to really work him over. Hit him hard on the issues,” he told me in stereotypical editor fashion. So I dutifully set out to do just that. I had heard the name, but I knew almost nothing about him. After doing a bit of homework on Snitker, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Some of his positions seemed like they were straight...

News Releases Articles Editorials Reports Books Maps Forums Letters Search Permissions Services Links Contact St John's Church Reopens in Baghdad Posted GMT 11-17-2007 21:9:48 Baghdad -- Neighborhood Christians and Muslims attended a mass to celebrate the reopening of St. John's Church in Baghdad on November 15. The Dome Under the Cross: Local Muslim and Christian leaders had prepared the church for his arrival. A Bishop came to St John's Church in Baghdad today, 15 November, where a crowd of locals welcomed him home. They were joined at the service by soldiers from the 2-12 infantry battalion, many of whom had...