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Opinion

    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • May 8, 2015
REVIEW AND COMMENT | Don Obama and the Medicaid Mob

In the battle over whether to expand Medicaid, the Obama administration has demonstrated how power corrupts and leads to vindictive extortion.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • March 27, 2015
Read and Comment: The 'state' controls 60% of Florida land; don't buy any more

It's never enough. And they will not be happy until we are all walking around in caveman loincloths, and every developer has been run out of the state.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • February 27, 2015
Republicans could go all out, but they won't

You know the old joke: Starting Tuesday, March 3, hold on to your wallets. Florida's annual legislative session begins.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 23, 2015
Obama: He just doesn't get it

For a guy who graduated from Harvard and “taught” at the University of Chicago, Barack Obama sure didn't “larn” much about economics or capitalism.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 2, 2015
The word for 2015: 'Aspire'

Each year, you make resolutions. A variation on that is to select a word, one word to live by for the next 12 months.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • November 7, 2014
Review and comment

Paradox of politics: Business success makes you a pariah

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • October 24, 2014
Review and Comment

It's all about performance

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • October 17, 2014
Review and Comment

The Amendments

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • September 26, 2014
Review and comment: Populist pandering

So Mr. Self-Proclaimed Vox Populi, Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist, wants to take on his opponent, Republican Rick Scott, on the issue of property insurance.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • September 19, 2014
Review and Comment: Alternative to more Medicaid

Two weeks ago in this space, we presented counter-arguments to the politicians and others who say Florida should take billions of borrowed federal tax dollars to expand the state's Medicaid health system to uninsured Floridians.This week, we're focusing on an alternative.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • September 5, 2014
Why not to expand Medicaid

Nary a day goes by without some editorial writer haranguing Florida's governor and Republican-controlled Legislature for not taking federal tax dollars to expand Florida's Medicaid program.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • August 29, 2014
Ideas matter: How a forlorn Russian changed lives

Ayn Rand's ideas prove they have lasting power as her advocates bring them to life on screen.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 3, 2014
The politics of liberty and why Jefferson wrote the Declaration

Liberty forms the foundation of our nation. Thomas Jefferson's role in the early government helped make it so.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • June 27, 2014
Substance versus likability

Charlie Crist may have charisma, but Gov. Scott has substance.

  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • May 12, 2014
There's much more to the beer brawl than you read

Learn the real story behind Tallahassee's fight about beer.

  • Opinion
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