Developer Jack Portman seemed to believe he could erase the legacy of Jackie Gleason from Miami Beach with a quick "And awaaay we go." Portman, Vice Chairman of Portman Holdings and John Portman & Associates, is one of two finalists who will be picked to head a costly renovation of...

As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past.

He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis Presley, move like Michael Jackson and swoon like Sinatra. It has been these disparate talents that Timberlake has harnessed for stage presence. It's this showmanship and substance that Tom...

The Eisenhower Memorial, a $142 million project projected to be completed by and dedicated on Memorial Day 2015, the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, has been challenged with legislation which would take $100 million out of the project and call for a competition aimed at a...

After Colorado and Washington State outright legalized marijuana in the last election it's time for the State of Florida to get on the road of drug law reform.

With a huge elderly population marijuana should be made medicinally available when prescribed by a legitimate physician. I reject the federal government's...

I had the opportunity to see Richard Nixon up close. I was the youngest senior staff member of his 1972 election campaign. I spent hours talking politics with "the old man" as veteran Nixon hands called him. As a political director in Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 campaigns I carried...

We here at the StoneZone have adopted a tradition in which Hollywood designer and arbiter of style Mr. Blackwell would publish a list of those he thought were the best – and worst clad people in the World.

Mr. Blackwell’s list was eagerly awaited each New Year, via...

The latest offering in the James Bond oeuvre, Skyfall, does a few things right but when it comes to 007 and his sartorial style, it makes a mockery of the Ian Fleming-created icon played by Sir Sean Connery.

Bond purists have already had to deal with an English Secret Service...

I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan. I served as the Eastern Regional Political Director for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and reprised that role in his 1984 campaign, after an earlier stint as national director of Youth for Reagan in...

Gov. Gary Johnson awoke the morning after Mitt Romney's nomination to find Romney/GOP lawyers launching efforts to block Johnson's ballot access in Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan and Oklahoma .

Johnson prevailed in Ohio, Virginia and Iowa -- now on the ballot.

Johnson is now on 45 with...

If Paul Ryan has achieved anything thus far he has securely nailed down Mitt Romney's always-weak right flank. The Romney-Ryan ticket will not have to be looking over their shoulder at the Republican base in the closing weeks of the election as John McCain did four years ago.

It's almost...

Every four years the American public becomes fascinated with political polling and the presidential horse race. In fact, national match-ups between the two major party contenders are largely meaningless. That's because America conducts 50 individual state elections on November 5, 2012 with Electoral College votes being awarded to the candidate...

The New York Times pointed out the presences of longtime GOP 'wise man' and veteran Washington lobbyist, Charlie Black, in presidential nominee presumptive Mitt Romney's entourage. Black has been a key figure in the campaigns of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, George H. W. Bush,...

AMC's Mad Men taking a swipe at Mitt Romney's father, Governor George Romney of Michigan was a historically inaccurate cheap shot. In the series, an advertising executive tells Mayor John Lindsay to avoid meeting with [George] Romney in Michigan.

First elected governor of Michigan in 1966, George Romney bought reform...

Florida is a state which derives much of its revenues from tourism. The state has seven Indian casinos and currently allows slot machines at racetracks and Jai-Alai frontons in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Yet, stunningly, a proposal to bring full-fledged casino gambling to Florida was recently withdrawn from...

I visited the Venice Beach/Santa Monica area of Southern California last week. The weather was cool and crisp in what has to be the hippest and most laid-back area of the country. Every other block seems to have a coffee shop or medical marijuana dispensary. The place is truly a...

Could the GOP be facing a deadlock in Tampa? Is it possible no one will have the votes on the first ballot?

Could the party turn to a compromise candidate like Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush or Donald Trump? This week I took a tumbler of vodka, a calculator,...

I registered to vote as a Republican the same day I turned 18. I registered so I could vote for Richard Nixon's re-election in 1972. I was excited to join the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Goldwater and Reagan. For one year before leaving for college I served on the...

For nearly 50 years, Mr. Blackwell of Hollywood sat as an arbiter of fashion by publishing a yearly list of the 10 Best and Worst Dressed People in the Demi-monde. Although best known for his "Worst Dressed"list, he maintained a successful career as a fashion...