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Opinion

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  • November 6, 2015
House always wins

The Seminole gaming compact and Florida lottery create a dichotomous hypocrisy. To limit gambling in Florida, 'the state' is the biggest operator and purveyor of gambling.

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  • October 2, 2015
'The enemy is always ... us!'

Florida's House speaker designate got it right: Lawmakers are the problem, not special interests.

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  • August 28, 2015
Read and Comment | The Dirty Clean Power Plan

“There are no solutions, only choices.”— Thomas SowellLet's take Thomas Sowell's astute truism a step or two further.

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  • August 28, 2015
My View | Baptists and Bootleggers

Large businesses and regulatory agencies often portray regulations on a moral ground. Truth is, more regulations often protect their advantages and give them more power.

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  • July 10, 2015
What we pay is none of Obama's business

The president's new rules for overtime will be another unnecessary intrusion into the relationship between employer and employee. Enough of this dictatorship.

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  • June 5, 2015
READ AND COMMENT | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

The call of media editorialists, state senators and altruists for expanding Obamacare's Medicaid program in Florida remains a cacophonous drumbeat of pots and pans.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • November 7, 2014
Review and comment

Paradox of politics: Business success makes you a pariah

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  • October 24, 2014
Review and Comment

It's all about performance

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  • October 17, 2014
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The Amendments

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  • 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.

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