Mario Diaz Balart

Two Florida Republican Reps In Danger

McClatchy | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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A new poll suggests that two Republican members of Congress from Miami are facing a tight race from their Democratic challengers -- the first signific...

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Barack Obama, Comunista y Terrorista? / Communist and Terrorist?

David Paul Appell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

The U.S. doesn't have to embrace Cuba at this time, but we do need to engage, because if we don't evolve too, history won't absolve us. Obama understands this.

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Sam Stein

McCain Surrogate: I'm Simply Less Principled Than McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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There was a bizarrely repentant tone to a conference call organized by the McCain campaign on Friday, as a surrogate to the Senator was forced to defe...

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Obama Will Give Reform in Cuba a Nudge if Not a Shove

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

In declaring his administration would meet with the Raúl Castro regime without preconditions, Obama was not being naïve but impeccably realistic.

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Letter from Miami: Florida Just Can't Seem to Shake Off Its Banana Republicanism -- Even The Democrats

David Paul Appell | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

The scheme to move up the Florida primary is just the latest episode in the ongoing saga of this state's hapless Dems since they lost both executive and legislative branches back in the 1990s.

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Venting About Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is helping to defend the political turf of not the best in the Republican Party -- but the worst.

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Freedom to Travel? More on the Audacity and Hypocrisy of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

Schultz has no moral authority complaining that her travel latitude has been restricted when she is directly responsible for inhibiting the freedoms of so many other Americans.

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