Tag: Florida

Border Patrol Apprehends Over 100 Cuban Illegal Aliens in Florida

Over 100 illegal immigrants from Cuba were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after several vessels made landfall in South Florida during the Labor Day weekend. On Saturday, 45 Cuban illegal immigrants were taken into custody after they arrived on a fishing vessel in Marquesas Keys, according to a Sept. 3 Twitter post by Walter Slosar,…


DeSantis Criticizes Biden’s Campaign Speech as ‘Disgusting’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called President Joe Biden’s Thursday campaign speech “one of the most disgusting speeches” an American president has ever delivered, in which the 79-year-old commander-in-chief described “MAGA forces” as a threat to the nation. “It was one of the most disgusting speeches an American president has ever given,” DeSantis said Friday…


UN Issues Report on Florida’s Anti-Protest Law

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued a report on Aug. 30 examining global discrimination and specifically mentioning Florida House Bill 1—a bill backed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—putting Florida on a global stage. The 18-member committee, including one member from the United States, said in the report that…


Time Forgot Amelia Island–Thank Goodness!

It’s a town time forgot — or maybe it just refused to move forward. Serene and unpretentious, Amelia Island remains in the 1900s — reveling in its long, colorful history, quite aware it no longer has to prove anything to the rest of the world. Therein lies the charm of this tiny stretch of land,…


Fuel Leak Disrupts NASA’s 2nd Shot at Launching Moon Rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard. For the second time this week, the launch team began loading nearly 1 million gallons of fuel into the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most…


Award-Winning First Amendment Song Hitting High Note for Young Singer From Florida

He’s only 16, but Colt Jaxon’s award-winning patriotic song debuted in rarified air: Three notches below country music superstar Blake Shelton on a top music-delivery platform. Colt, who is homeschooled and lives on a small cattle ranch near Tampa, Fla., won a nationwide First Amendment-themed songwriting contest sponsored by Constituting America. The nonprofit organization educates people…


Trump Lawyer Claims She ‘Diligently Searched’ Mar-a-Lago in May, Days Before DOJ Subpoenaed Trump

A lawyer for former President Donald Trump said she had entirely searched “each and every room” at Mar-a-Lago early in May, less than a week before the Department of Justice issued Trump a grand jury subpoena to recover alleged top secret records he removed from the White House. Alina Habba, the attorney representing Trump in…


Newly Released Mar-a-Lago Image Was FBI ‘Photo Op’: Former Trump Aide

The federal authorities had staged a “photo op” with the newly disclosed photograph showing documents with classified markings at former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort, alleged ex-White House aide Kash Patel. The image, captured on Aug. 8 during the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, showed six documents labeled as “top secret” and several marked as “secret”…


Image of Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago was FBI ‘Photo Op’: Former Trump Aide

The federal authorities had staged a “photo op” with the newly disclosed photograph showing documents with classified markings at former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort, alleged ex-White House aide Kash Patel. The image, captured on Aug. 8 during the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, showed six documents labeled as “top secret” and several marked as “secret”…


Florida’s DeSantis Takes Conservative Populism to the Rust Belt

Commentary PITTSBURGH—While it is always unsettling for a political movement when its party loses power, the reality is that the movement’s coalition doesn’t necessarily collapse or disappear. Sometimes, it even gets stronger. Coalitions last beyond a candidate’s or party’s loss because the coalition is always more about the people who are in it than about…