Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
Free For All Fridays on WNZF: Host David Ayres Flagler Technical College Director Renee Stauffacher and Sheriff Rick Staly will talk about giving convicted criminals a second chance on the job, with a legislative report from Rep. Paul Renner and my commentary on the ongoing legislative and local assault on the LGBTQ+ community and themes through such bills as “Don;t Say Gay,” starting a little after 9 a.m.
In Court: A blessedly quiet day. No judge has court today.
Meowy Hour: Come join Community Cats of Palm Coast for a Meowy Hour event Friday, Feb. 11th, from 5-7 p.m., hosted by Sea Casas Boutique and Uncork’d. Enjoy refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres, a raffle, door prizes and a silent auction. We will have cats for adoption and volunteer signup. If you have not been to Sea Casas, you will enjoy this extraordinary boutique that specializes in unique art and gifts. Sea Casas is located at 213 S. Second St. in Flagler Beach. Admission is $10 and the event is limited to 70 attendees, so please reserve your spot by calling 386-693-4888.
The Countries With The Most Women In National Parliament, From Statista’s Daily Infographics: Despite the share of women in the 117th Congress reaching its highest level in history, the U.S. still trails many countries in terms of women in parliament. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the share of women in the House of Representatives stands at 27.7 percent (the share in the Senate is 24 percent), placing the U.S. 72nd on the global list of the countries with the highest share of women in parliament. Rwanda comes first by quite a distance with its lower house 61.3 percent female as of January 2022. That is largely down to its horrific 1994 genocide which left the country with a population that was 60-70 percent female. Rwanda was forced to implement sweeping changes and open society to women, part of which involved a quota mandating that women hold 30 percent of political seats. Cuba has the second highest share of women in its legislature at 53.4 percent, followed by Nicaragua with 50.6 percent. Exactly half of the UAE’s Federal National Council and Mexico’s lower house is female. All of the three latter countries have gender parity laws in place for their national assemblies, while Cuba uses unofficial affirmative action plans throughout the one-party state system.
Now this:
Agustin Barrios Mangoré “Mazurka Appassionata”
The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
December 2025
In Court: Ex-Firefighter James Melady Trial
Groundbreaking for Flagler County Fire Station 51
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Nar-Anon Family Group
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
For the full calendar, go here.
“I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal, except Negroes. When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, all men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics. When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
–Abraham Lincoln from a letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855.
Ray W. says
Abraham Lincoln accepting that common sense is a process, not a result. His letter presents to us a process of rational, reasoned thought that advocates one possible meaning of our Declaration of Independence. The original intent crowd insist that common sense is a result and that our founding fathers went through the process for us. Therefore, we no longer have to engage in our own search for common sense. We only have to accept what some among us think our founding fathers thought at the time they adopted the Constitution, notwithstanding the fact that one set of founding fathers produced the Declaration of Independence, another set proposed our Constitution and yet another set ratified that Constitution, with only a few of those men being involved in all three events, and a larger minority involved in two of the three critical stages in our nation’s founding. Furthermore, a significant number of prominent founding fathers opposed ratification of the proposed Constitution.
Is the present-day original intent crowd engaging in a “modern” form of unalloyed hypocritical despotism?