A jury in deliberation since last week might render a verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit involving AdventHealth Palm Coast, the County Commission meets, a few notes about Thomas Asbridge’s Crusades.
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Need It Even Be Said? A Military Ethicist Explains Why All Civilian Lives Matter Equally.
As of Nov. 25, according to health officials in the Gaza Strip, more than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of whom are women and children. International humanitarian law prohibits direct attacks on civilians and wounded and surrendered soldiers and on civilian objects such as schools, religious centers and hospitals and other civilian infrastructure. There are exceptions. Israel is not abiding by either.
In Florida, Voter-Suppression Is Essential to GOP’s Edge
Republicans in 2023 are on a campaign to emulate what occurred during Reconstruction by disenfranchising African Americans, engaging in severe gerrymandering so that the odds are turn in their favor in 2024. Their harsh and uncompromising position on abortion is costing them support and has led to losses in primaries. But the GOP’s political strategy is explained by former President Donald Trump, who has said the quiet part out loud: Republicans will never again win elections if democratic reforms make voting easier.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, December 3, 2023
A performance of Handel’s Messiah, the annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance, the firing of Steve Bell, what is and what isn’t anti-Semitism, and its uses as a smokescreen to the war crimes in Gaza.
‘Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory”s Racist Origins
Dahl’s book is part of a long history of children’s books that feature racist stereotypes – a list that includes six Dr. Seuss books that were removed from publication in 2021. Other children’s classics, such as “Peter Pan” and “Mary Poppins,” have also been criticized for perpetuating racism.
Hearing Set in Ban of Palestinian Group at USF
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing Jan. 26 in a lawsuit filed by the group Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Florida after state university system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues issued an order targeting such organizations.
Florida Appeals Court Upholds Disenfranchising Black Voters in North Florida, a Victory for DeSantis
A state appeals court has rejected a legal attempt to save a Black-opportunity congressional district in North Florida, relying on legal reasoning never raised by the parties to the case: That the district originally was devised to benefit Democrats, not Blacks specifically.
Edward H. McAvoy, 1947-2023
Edward H. McAvoy Sr., born August 6, 1947 in Ithaca, NY, crossed over on Saturday November 18, 2023.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, December 2, 2023
DSC’s early-enrollment day, Breakfast with Santa at Captain’s BBQ, 10th Annual Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival, Sandra Day O’Connor.
The George Santos Calamity
How could a politician engage in such large-scale deception and get elected? What could stop it from happening again, as politicians seem to be growing more unapologetically deceptive while evading voters’ scrutiny?