Florida

Long before he sold out and became a Big Pharma lobbyist, Howard Dean started DFA-- then Dean for America, now Democracy for America, and run by Howard's brother Jim Dean.

(ANTIMEDIA) Florida — The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released video Thursday of one of its police officers failing to enter a building at Stoneman Douglas high school as the shooting was unfolding. The footage was released following a lawsuit filed by news outlets seeking video surveillance. Though the sheriff’s office and the school fought against its release, citing public records law […]

Good friend and frequent guest Stephen Singular joins me today to discuss his latest book and first novel In the Cards. The book deals with the 2000 election and one journalists effort to expose the corruption and manipulation of the results by the GOP. Stephen begins by giving us an overview of the novel and what led him to write it. He also discusses the setting and the circumstances around the rigged 2000 election. We then talk about the novels protagonist, freelance journalist Jimmy Iverson. Stephen talks about the sort of person that Jimmy is and the journalistic ideals that he holds.

(ANTIMEDIA) — Former Broward County sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson was widely condemned for his failure to enter Stoneman Douglas high school as Nikolas Cruz shot at students. He previously claimed publicly that he believed the gunfire was coming from outside the school, but recent police dispatches released this week by the Broward County Sheriff’s office reveal that […]

(ANTIMEDIA) — Amid the fallout from the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, FL, that left 17 dead, the FBI and local law enforcement received widespread criticism for their inability to prevent the shooting despite multiple warning signs and opportunities. On Tuesday, the FBI admitted these failures to the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing focused on how […]

Oscar bombs, child martyrs and invincible weapons + this day in history w/Patsy Cline's crash and our song of the day w/Jack White on your Morning Monarchy for March 5, 2018.

So President Donald Trump now pontificates that he would run into a school building to save students during a mass shooting attack even if he was “unarmed!”
This empty boast is from the same Trump who failed the bravery test during the Vietnam War by dodging the draft — not for principle but because the poor guy had “bone spurs” on one foot (he can’t remember which).

ColaMost campaign emails are absolutely worthless spam, even from otherwise good candidates. But some candidates put some effort into making them great. This cycle, for example, Austin Frerick (Iowa) and Derrick Crowe (Texas) are doing really good ones.

(ZHE) — The Broward County Deputy who has been roundly criticized since Sheriff Scott Israel confirmed last week that he didn’t confront Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has released his first public statement – and its contents are hardly surprising. The deputy insisted he isn’t a coward and that he didn’t initially believe that gunfire was happening […]

Critics are calling on Sheriff Israel to resign.
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino sounds off about the fallout in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.