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Archives for October 3, 2025

George Washington’s Lesson to Pete Hegseth

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Hegseth envy. (© FlaglerLive)

Washington’s overall vision of a military leader could not be further from Hegseth’s vision of the tough warrior. For starters, Washington would have found the concern with “fat generals” irrelevant. Some of the most capable officers in the Continental Army were famously overweight. Washington became a soldier not because he was hotheaded or drawn to the thrill of combat, but because he saw soldiering as the highest exercise of discipline, patience and composure. His “warrior ethos” was moral before it was martial.

Trump Threatens Peace in Gaza: The Good, the Bad, the Muggy

October 3, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 14 Comments

Sykes-Picot 2.0. gaza peace plan

If you look past the puerility of Trump’s language there are real nuggets in the Gaza peace plan. But it exists as if history did not. Arab memory isn’t that shallow, nor that dumb. Still, Trump’s plan is the best thing to come out of the White House for the Middle East since 2001, as long as it is taken as a starting point for negotiations, not a poisoned take-it-or-leave it threat. Trump’s mobster threat that Israel will “finish the job” if Hamas doesn’t unconditionally surrender ensures failure from the outset, and continued failure of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, genocidal results aside. There is no job to finish. Only lives.

Teacher Who Certified Student as ‘Most Likely to Become Dictator’ Battles Pending Firing

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Teachers schooled on "effective instruction" in Alachua County schools last June. (Facebook)

With state Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas vowing to prevent her from teaching again, an Alachua County teacher is fighting a disciplinary case that includes allegations she presented a certificate to a student that said he was the most likely to “become a dictator.”

State Debating Trophy Will be Named After Controversialist Charlie Kirk

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

It'll be the Charlie Kirk trophy. (Wikimedia Commons)

The top student debaters in the state will hoist a trophy named for the late, controversial conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas announced Friday that the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative championship trophy will be named for Kirk, who gained notoriety for debating students on college campuses before he was assassinated.

Keith Johansen, Serving Life for Murdering His Wife, Now Claims Stand Your Ground Would Have Exonerated Him

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Keith Johansen threatening his wife in a video clip shown the jury during the 2021 trial, days before he murdered her. Johansen was to the right in the courtroom, masked, next to his attorney, Gary Wood. (© FlaglerLive)

Former Palm Coast resident Keith Johansen, 43, who shot and killed his wife Brandi Celenza at their F-Section home in 2018, now claims a Stand Your Ground motion would have exonerated him and made trial unnecessary. Four years ago this month a jury found Johansen guilty of murdering Brandi, 25, in their home on Felter Lane while Brandi’s young son was in another room, waiting to go to the county fair.

Every Flagler/Palm Coast Development Past, Present and Future Now Mapped Out and Accessible Thanks to Toby Tobin

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

GoToby's Residential Development Map, a work several years in the making, was made publicly accessible this month by its creator, Toby Tobin.

Imagine an interactive site where every housing development in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell and Flagler County, past, present, and future, is mapped out and available at a click. Every development’s details–number of homes, apartment units, commercial or industrial square footage–is listed, often with illustrations and links. Developers are listed. So are construction dates or projected buildouts. That map is now public and free to use, if not quite as free to its creator, who’s paying for it. 

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 3, 2025

October 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The Enemy Within by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

First Friday in Flagler Beach, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, The Friday Blue Forum, Free Family Art Night: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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