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The Big Pharma Mafia:
Your Money Or Your Life

September 29, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli’s decision to raise the price of the lifesaving drug Daraprim from $18 to $750 per pill is emblematic of America’s pharmaceutical industry, where price-gouging is the norm.

Pope Francis’s Challenge to America

September 24, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Pope Francis is challenging conservative Americans–and presidential candidates–to rethink their belligerence to Cuba, Palestinians and action on global warming, writes Chris Patten.

How Does Lawbreaking Kim Davis Get to Keep Her Job?

September 22, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

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The law of the land isn’t an item on an a la carte menu from which elected officials can pick and choose, argues Nancy Smith, who says Kim Davis should have been removed from office by the governor.

Muslim, Dark-Skinned, Geeky:
Ahmed Mohamed Had No Chance

September 19, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 89 Comments

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If there’s remaining doubt that it is subhuman to be a Muslim or an Arab in the United States, the imbecilic arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed over a clock puts the doubts to rest.

Flagler’s Ronald Reagan Republicans: Don’t Associate Us With Palm Coast Charter Review

September 18, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Mike McElroy, president of the Ronald Reagan Republican Assemblies, says Palm Coast Councilman Steven Nobile’s push for a charter review–while not a bad idea–is entirely his own rather than an agenda of the RRRs.

World Warms to Climate Change Treaty, But Europe, Not U.S. Is Setting the Standard

September 17, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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December’s UN conference on climate change in Paris may lead to a treaty as a consensus has emerged that it’s also about economic challenges like poverty, sustainable development, and the wellbeing of future generations.

Federal Bureaucracy Is the Monster Killing the Florida Everglades

September 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Federal regulations keep water from flowing south into Everglades National Park, where it could save a freshwater-dependent ecosystem dying of thirst, argues Nancy Smith.

The Hell With Your Tired,
Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses

September 13, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

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Barack Obama’s order to open the U.S. to 10,000 refugees is dismal compared to Germany’s. Racism, not means, block greater numbers from an American welcome.

Boots on the Ground to Fight ISIS? Sure, But Arab and Turkish Boots, Not American

September 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Republican candidates for president are right about calling for military force against ISIS, wrong about the kind of force that should fight: only Sunni fighters from Arab lands and Turkey can effectively defeat ISIS, argues Joseph Nye.

“God’s Authority” Has No Place In Civil Government

September 7, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 120 Comments

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Kim Davis is not the problem. She’s a symptom of a dangerous movement that seeks to carve out religious objections all over the law books, making civil government a vassal of religious edicts.

Bill Gates: The Rich World’s Responsibility to Those Who’ll Suffer Most From Global Warming

September 2, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Climate change can’t be stopped tomorrow, but its devastating effects on millions of the poorest farmers can be reduced if richer countries invest in cleaner technologies now, and help farmers better adapt, Bill Gates writes.

Florida’s New Drone Law, Restricting “Surveillance,” Is a Gift to Personal Injury Lawyers

September 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Like medical marijuana, there’s an entrepreneurial rush to get in on the drone business, but states like Florida have been stumbling their way to legislation., argues Nancy Smith.

Why You’re Getting Poorer: iPhones Aren’t The Economic Engine Cars and Electricity Were

August 31, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Robert Gordon argues rising standards of living brought by cars, indoor plumbing and electricity can;t be replaced by iPhones and the internet. Martin Feldstein disagrees.

Indentured Regression: Marco Rubio Thinks College Students Should Be Sharecroppers

August 29, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Marco Rubio is proposing human capital contracts as a way for college students to pay tuition: investors would foot the bill and claim a percentage of the graduates’ income for years. It’s a terrible idea.

SLAPP This: Florida Scores a Big Free Speech Victory Against Intimidation Lawsuits

August 27, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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It was a rare success in the last Florida Legislative session: a new law protecting the public from frivolous corporate or otherwise intimidating lawsuits intended to silence public expression in government issues.

Capitalism Doesn’t Cause Poverty. Its Absence Does.

August 24, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The world’s poorest countries are not characterized by naive trust in capitalism, but by utter distrust, which leads to heavy government intervention and regulation of business. Under such conditions, capitalism does not thrive and economies remain poor.

How County Government Is Pimping Princess Place While Spinning Fairy Tales

August 22, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

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Flagler County’s justifications for holding a Spartan extreme-sport race at Princess Place Preserve fails the smell test on all counts and raise questions about how tourism chief Matt Dunn and County Administrator Craig Coffey got the deal so far to start with.

Before Going Neolithic on Unwed Moms, Bush Could Bone Up on Economic Reality

August 17, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Here’s what conservatives like Jeb Bush don’t want to acknowledge: Marriage rates are inextricably linked to America’s economy.

The Population Bomb Reloads: How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions

August 14, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The world’s expanding human population is in competition with the populations of most other animals. Our population bomb has already claimed its first casualties. They will not be the last, argue Paul and Anne Ehrlich.

Raise the Gas Tax Already

August 11, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The federal gas tax has been stuck at 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993, lowest among advanced countries. Yet Congress just adopted a three-month stopgap measure, kicking the gas can down the road for the 35th time since 2009.

In Defense of Megyn Kelly

August 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Megyn Kelly deserves conservatives’ admiration, not their disdain, for leveling the sort of tough questions at Donald Trump and other candidates that should be asked of any presidential hopefuls, argues Nancy Smith.

Jailhouse Porn
Fort Apache: Flagler

August 8, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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There’s nothing to be proud of in the pornography of incarceration: Flagler had no reason to triple the size of its jail other than to amplify an indefensible architecture of disproportionate punishment.

Sea Ray Issues Open Letter to Flagler Beach Ahead of Thursday’s Special Meeting

August 5, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The Flagler Beach City Commission meets in special session Thursday to consider taking its opposition to a Sea Ray plan for a parking lot to the state. Sea Ray offers its side.

Clowns on the Campaign Trail and the
Revolt Against Professional Politicians

August 4, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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Donald Trump is part of a wider phenomenon of disaffected voters turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists and political entertainers, or clowns if you like, argues Ian Buruma.

Why the Florida Solar Initiative Is Losing

August 3, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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The problem isn’t with the popularity of solar power, but the poor choice of words written by the people who have the best-ever name for their group: Floridians for Solar Choice.

Iran Nukes Deal Will Protect Against Saudi and Israeli Threats

August 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Iran hasn’t launched a single war in 50 years. Israel has launched eight, Saudi Arabia has kept funding America’s worst enemies–ISIS, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Who are the real threats to Mideast peace?

Genesis Was Wrong: Man’s Dominion Over Animals Is Stewardship, Not Ownership

July 28, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Pope Francis has now rejected mainstream Christian view, insisting that being created in God’s image doesn’t mean dominion over the earth or absolute domination over other creatures.

Barack Obama Stands Up to the Warmongers

July 26, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

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The US is not a partisan in the Shia-Sunni struggle. If anything, the US confronts mainly Sunni terrorism, funded from Saudi Arabia, not Shia terrorism backed by Iran.

Reporter Kicked Out: When Public Officials Abuse Florida’s Sunshine Law, With Lawmakers’ Blessing

July 22, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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A “health district” run by public officials closes a public meeting under a bogus exemption to the Sunshine law, and gets a blank check to secretly talk about whatever it wishes, though it affects public policy.

The Iranian Nukes Deal and the
Horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse

July 21, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Netanyahu is an ideologue of Jewish catastrophe. By this logic, risks and challenges cannot be approached with a view toward resolution, yielding instead to paranoia and antagonism, writes Shlomo Ben-Ami.

Service Specter: Rick Scott’s Job-Growth Puffery Masks Florida’s Low-Wage Future

July 20, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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About two of three of those new jobs is a low-paying service-sector one, mirroring years of Florida job growth in low-pay, no-benefits, dead-end jobs in Team Scott’s tourism-driven economy.

Donald Trump Isn’t the Exception.
He’s the Republican Prototype.

July 17, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

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Donald Trump isn’t an exception or an offense to the GOP brand. He’s he’s almost indistinguishable from the other 14 Republican crackpots running for president, starting with Jeb Bush, the alleged “moderate” of the bunch. Bush’s Florida record proves it.

Reclaiming Islam’s Enlightenment From Its Fundamentalist Hijackers

July 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Granting that more than a few Muslims back the hijackers’ extremism, what is needed is cultural exchanges instead of armed, panicky overreactions,

Good and Bad of the Iran Nuclear Deal: Caution and Selective Cooperation Ahead

July 14, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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The prospect that the agreement could keep Iran without nuclear weapons for 15 years is its main attraction. Sanctions alone could not have accomplished this, and using military force would have entailed considerable risk with uncertain results.

Memo to GOP Candidates: Why Conservatives Should Embrace Gay Marriage Decision

July 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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As a conservative who has always supported gay marriage, it’s difficult for Nancy Smith to understand why so many people of her generation — the ones who grew up witnessing some of the worst discrimination of the 20th century — could consistently rage against it.

Jews Then, Muslims Now: How Imprudent Judgments Desecrate Western Values

July 9, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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To assume that all Muslims think alike because of their religious background, that they have “a mind” rather than individual thoughts, is as big a mistake as to assume to know the minds of Jews, Christians, or anyone else.

In Donald Trump, Democrats Have a “Very Useful Idiot”

July 7, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

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Republicans have an image problem. And it gets worse when somebody like Trump exacerbates the problem when he called Mexicans rapists.

I Identify As American

July 4, 2015 | Pierre Tristam | 17 Comments

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Political independence is easy. The unalienable right to choose who and what we want to be down to our most basic identity, including one’s race, religion, sex and culture, has been harder to secure.

Disney’s CEO Makes $248 a Minute as Some of His Employees Go Homeless on $8.03 an Hour

July 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

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Even after a raise to $10 an hour, Disney employees can only expect to take home about $20,000 over the course of a year, not enough to live decently in Orlando. A $15-an-hour wage is more critical, argues Scott Klinger.

Backdoor Snooping: Why the U.S. Is Wrong to Oppose Full Encryption of Your iPhone

June 29, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The U.S. argues that the country will be less safe if the proper authorities have no “backdoor” – a piece of code that lets them in. Software engineers call backdoors “vulnerabilities,” deliberate efforts to weaken security.

The Confederate Flag:
A Swastika Cross-Dressing as Heritage

June 26, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 117 Comments

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Removing the Confederate flag from public places isn’t a denial of first amendment rights. It corrects an offensive version of false history and opposes black honor to white supremacy.

The Climate Pope’s Message: Reversing Global Warming is Humanity’s Responsibility

June 23, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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If we do not change our behavior quickly, we may well lose the environmental stability upon which our planet – and our lives – depends. This is the main message of the pope’s encyclical.

That Other American Exceptionalism:
Right-Wing Terrorism

June 19, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 174 Comments

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For all the wasted blood spilled on ISIS and al-Qaeda, the real terrorist threat is neither far away nor foreign. It speaks English. It’s white. It’s American. And it’s sanctified by the NRA’s liturgy of guns today, guns tomorrow, guns forever.

Florida’s Nature Conservancy Gets It:
It’s About Land Management

June 18, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Most Florida environmental groups this special session made a lot of noise and spent a lot of money, but came away empty-handed and unhappy. Not The Nature Conservancy.

Quit Turning Your Backs on Desperate Migrants. Help Them Instead.

June 17, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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Like Americans’ ancestors, migrants are fleeing poverty, war, or oppression, or are searching for a better life in a new land. Blocking that flow, argues Kofi Anann, is bound to fail, with disastrous consequences for human lives.

To Fight Obesity, Get Government Involved: Taxes, Regulations, Education

June 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Successful efforts to improve public health — smoking bans, seat-belt laws, and speed limits–have always involved legislation and regulation supplementing education, argues Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff.

ISIS and Barack Obama’s Dumb War

June 12, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

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Sending US troops back to Iraq to fight ISIS, Obama is doing what no American president has ever done before: re-start a war long lost. He’s doing it illegally, without Congressional authorization.

The War on Women, Cont’d: Enough with Mandatory Vaginal Exams, Florida

June 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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It’s not enough that in 2011 our Legislature passed a draconian law forcing women to schedule, pay for, and look at an ultrasound of their fetus if they choose to exercise their right to an abortion.

Childhood Cancer Clusters in Florida and The Department of Health’s Lethal Silence

June 9, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Five years have passed since the University of West Florida’s Dr. Raid Amin and his team alerted the state to the presence of cancer clusters in Florida, the state Department of Health remains mum, seemingly uninterested in investigating the issue.

Stupid Pot Busts

June 5, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 70 Comments

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The conviction for pot smoking of a Palm Coast resident who’d never had so much as a traffic ticket illustrates the sickness of a police and judicial system’s wrongheaded marijuana fixation.

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