Surveying the field

The latest independent poll from Quinnipiac University, released Wednesday, shows 65% of Floridians approve of the way Gov. Charlie Crist is handling his job.
A release from Quinnipiac describes the rating as “sky high,” noting that he is as well liked among Florida voters as President Barack Obama.
Source.
Gov. Crist obviously deserves a closer look. Here [...]

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RTFA

This article:
The purchase of a piece of property in America, a single-family house, a PUD (planned unit development) or a condo (flat within a condominium) will guarantee you and your family a green card. This is one of the extreme measures implemented to help stall the meteoric fall of the United States economy in light [...]

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On the GOP chief executives

As this Newsweek piece reminds us, there are still 21 of them. I’m really not in the mood to talk about Bobby Jindal right now, since for the first time in my life a key figure in the Republican Party is younger than me, and I’m still stinging from the blow. (They don’t [...]

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Crying wolf about crying wolf.

I’m coming down with a serious case of Derangement Syndrome Derangement Syndrome. I understood accusations of Bush Derangement Syndrome, even Clinton Derangement Syndrome. But Palin Derangement Syndrome? Obama Derangement Syndrome? Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome (!!!)?
I propose a truce. I simply cannot handle four years of talk of [...]

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Old math in the new age. Or is it new math in the old age? New math, new age, but old news? Or is it that old age is not math news, but…

States are heading for budget difficulties that may compel the governors to swallow hard and either propose or accept tax increases.
And there is no better way to alienate the base of the Republican Party than to push for, or acquiesce to, tax increases.
Yeah? So?
The problem is particularly sensitive for a group of governors who [...]

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Carol of the Bills

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist met Tuesday with a top banking official and said afterward that he wants to secure an agreement from lenders for a voluntary moratorium on foreclosures at least through the holidays.
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Crist was still unsure if he could compel foreclosures to stop through an executive order or whether it would take an act [...]

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Gov. Crist remains very popular in Florida, in spite of it all

For the first time in 12 years, Florida turned blue and voted for Barack Obama. Voters here also replaced 2 Republican Congressmen with Democrats. Still, as Mike Vasilinda tells us, Florida’s Republican Governor remains exceptionally popular.
Charlie Crist promised property taxes would “Drop like a rock”. It was more like a pebble. He tackled high property [...]

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