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North Miami Beach’s Triple X Code. Children, please leave the room!

Hot off the presses is an article published in the Miami New Times entitled Swinging Richards Sues North Miami Beach for Discrimination.  Yeah, we needed that, like a hole in the head. The article points…

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Will Eric Holder Prosecute this HATE CRIME?

Where is Al Sharpton?  Jesse Jackson?  The president? “Justice for Trayvon?”  REALLY?  This is a HATE CRIME, plain and simple.  I guarantee the Department of Justice won’t get involved.   Just published article from Mobile,…

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Black People Want to Know

Like all high profile, controversial news stories tend to do, the death of 17 year old Trayvon Martin has created several stories that become mini-dramas in their own right.  In magazine-speak, these spinoffs are called…

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I will now be boycotting Best Buy

I sent the following letter to:  NewsCenter@bestbuy.com Dear Sir or Madam, I have been a long time customer at Best Buy in the Aventura, Florida store.  I have always thought of Best Buy as one…

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Attention Senior Citizens

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: Patrick Smikle 305-375-4789 PROPERTY APPRAISER PEDRO GARCIA REMINDS SENIORS TO RE-APPLY FOR THEIR 2012 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION   (MIAMI, April 20, 2010) – Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, Pedro J. Garcia…

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North Miami Poised to Raise Water Rates

Message from North Miami Councilman Scott Galvin:   North Miami Poised to Raise Water Rates What Will it Mean to YOUR Bill? At the North Miami City Council meeting this coming Tuesday, April 24th, the…

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North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre, A National Disgrace

Late yesterday afternoon I received a copy of an email that was sent out by North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre, announcing an upcoming Foreclosure Workshop scheduled for next Wednesday.  My first thought was that unfortunately…

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The Irony and the Hypocrisy

Can anyone spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y?  Retired Miami-Dade County firefighter William Clark obviously cannot. Can anyone spell i-r-o-n-y?  The Gadfly can. On Monday, September 17, 2001, a scant six days after the terrorist attacks on American soil,…

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Dear Governor Romney

I was privileged to receive a copy of an email from a young man who wrote such an elegant letter to Governor Romney, that I asked his permission to reprint it on my website.  He…

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Rep. Barbara Watson: The Party of No

If the folks in Florida House District 103 thought they were electing a legislator to actually legislate when they cast their votes for Barbara Watson, they wasted their time.  The electorate sent Ms. Watson to…

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