Over the course of the past two years as I made my way around the state speaking to and meeting members of various tea party and grassroots conservative groups, one name kept coming up: Herman Cain. This was long before Cain threw his name into the Presidential mix. Some activists told me: You need to […]
Policy and Culture
Why Jeb Bush Should Run in 2012 – and not in 2016
It’s midsummer, 2011. We have just 16 months until the general election of November 2012, which will decide whether we get four more years of Barack Obama or if our nation shall decide on another course. For Republicans, we have just 7 months until the Iowa caucus and the string of electoral contests that will […]
My analysis of CNN’s Presidential Debate Among GOP contenders in New Hampshire
Tonight’s Presidential debate on CNN showed me that we truly do have some remarkable candidates in this field. And, I’m not sure that we’ve even seen them all. First of all, the debate format was horrible. There were too many “30 second only” answers. And what’s worse, there were even too many “5 or 6 […]
Real World Las Vegas: Where the Past Is Present
Last week marked the final episode of the 25th season of MTV’s The Real World: Las Vegas. I don’t typically watch this show – I haven’t in over a decade. But one of my interns at JMI brought this particular season to my attention when he found out that one of the guys on the […]
401 K
I received the message below as one of those email forwards. I thought it was pretty funny, so I’m posting it on my blog here. Just imagine… If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today! If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG […]
God Inspires Us To Create
Well, we all know God is everywhere, in everything, even in each of us. Well, that is if we believe God exists. So many today in our culture do not. Even for those of us who do believe, many of us at various times in our life may have questioned God’s existence. Or, at least […]
Boycott CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Conference is the largest annual gathering of conservatives. It takes place each year in Washington, D.C. I attended my first CPAC as a graduate student in 2004. I was privileged enough to be invited to speak on a student-led panel, to discuss the successful conservative student newspaper I helped co-found at […]
Rick Scott – The Tea Party Governor – Part 2
This is the second in a series of blog posts on why I believe Rick Scott will be the “Tea Party Governor.” As I mentioned in part one of this series of blog posts, when I first learned that Rick Scott was entering the Florida gubernatorial primary against Bill McCollum, I thought it was odd. […]
Rick Scott: The Tea Party Governor – Part 1
This is the first in a series of blog posts on why I believe Rick Scott will be the “Tea Party Governor.” Since its inception almost two years ago, the tea party movement has not only been about lower taxes and less government spending, it has primarily been about changing the culture of politics. It […]
My Message to the Tallahassee Tea Party
Tonight I sent out a pre-primary vote message to the 919 members of the Tallahassee Tea Party Facebook group. Here’s the text of that message. Tallahassee Tea Party, Tomorrow may be a historic day in Florida, and particularly in Tallahassee. There are many big primary races on both the Republican and Democrat tickets. There are […]