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Understanding China’s New Military Power

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The missiles have gotten bigger and China's might mightier since a 2015 military parade. (Wikimedia Commons)

With the conflicts in Ukraine, south Asia, and the Middle East showing the limitations of more established European and Russian hardware, there are growing opportunities for Chinese weapons technology. It’s also likely that Chinese military systems will find customers among countries that are not on Donald Trump’s list of favoured nations, such as Iran. Should Iran be able to equip itself with Chinese systems, it will be better placed to go head-to-head with Israel.

What the Hell? An Indecorous DeSantis Calls Renner’s Governor Run ‘Ill-Advised’

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

DeSantis, who may have had his wife in his 2026 sights, is not saluting Renner's decision to run for governor. (© FlaglerLive)

Ron DeSantis does not want former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner to succeed him as governor, he told a packed crowd Wednesday. His blunt take on the 48-year-old’s candidacy stood in contrast to Renner’s campaign launch earlier Wednesday, when the former House Speaker lauded himself as a top GOP figure who played a key role in advancing DeSantis’s agenda.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 3, 2025

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Police State Badge by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Flagler County Republican Club, the Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, chatting with James Garner, America’s undistinguished years before the Founders.

Sanctuary Cities Were Result of American-Backed Atrocities in Central America

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Today’s sanctuary practices, and the federal targeting of sanctuary cities, are largely the result of the way sanctuary took shape across the U.S. in the 1980s when churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in Central America. To a large extent, this was the result of the Reagan administration’s refusal to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S.-supported regimes in Central America.

Bail Grift: Instead of Returning Bond Money, Florida Seizes It to Pay Off Fines and Fees

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Is Florida running a bail grift? That’s how one Judge described the state’s decades-old policy of keeping bail money from third parties and using it to pay off defendants’ outstanding fines and fees. At least one member of an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel that considered the issue this month appears to agree with that assessment. So do several current and former lawmakers who have tried to end the practice.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 2, 2025

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Minneapolis Shootings and Congress by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Palm Coast City Council and both Bunnell’s and Flagler Beach’s planning boards meet, a warning about silly season in the Florida House, visiting with the Ministry of Silly Walks, a few incomprehensible lines from Richard Powers.

Is a Palestinian State Even Possible Anymore?

September 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A segment of the so-called separation barrier in the West Bank. (Wkimedia Commons)

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, joining the United Kingdom, Canada and France in taking the historic step. The Israeli government has ruled out a two-state solution and reacted with fury to the moves by the four G20 members to recognise Palestine. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision “shameful”. Practically speaking, the formation of a future Palestinian state consisting of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem will be difficult to achieve.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 1, 2025

September 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Modern Back to School Fashion by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com

It’s Labor Day. All government offices, courts, schools and some shops are closed. Workers Over Billionaires Demonstration at Palm Coast Parkway Overpass. When sanctuary cities had nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with oracles and games.

‘It’s A Complicated Time to Be a White Southerner’

August 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

A scene in the Mondex. (© FlaglerLive)

There is not much research on how white people think about what it means to be white. Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound. Some white Southerners fit those tropes. Many others do not. Overall, white Southerners across the political spectrum actively grappling with their white racial status.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 31, 2025

August 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Trump's Expanding Military Overreach by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

Overdose Awareness Day Walk Over Flagler Beach Bridge starting at Wadsworth Park, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Chandler Fritz on the demolition of public education.

Republicans Split Over Flag-Burning

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Those who hold constitutional principles in high regard are increasingly concerned about a president demonstrating his desire for expansive power. And, the US Supreme Court has clearly ruled on more than one occasion that the act, however distasteful, is constitutionally permitted. Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice and noted constitutional textualist, famously stated that “if it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag”. But, he added: “I am not king.”

Constance Lillian (MacIntyre) March, 1933-2025

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Constance Lillian (MacIntyre) March

Born in Adams, Massachusetts, August 25, 1933, Constance Lillian (MacIntyre) March passed away on her 92nd Birthday, August 25, 2025, in Palm Coast, Florida, after a long battle with several health challenges.

Complying with Judge’s Order to Dismantle It, ICE Stops Sending Human Beings to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Those were the days: Kevin Guthrie chumming it up with the Trumps by an "Alligator Alcatraz" cage. (Wikimedia Commons)

Federal officials are complying with a judge’s order and have stopped sending immigrants to a detention center in the Everglades, less than two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration launched the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 30, 2025

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Clay Jones on Cracker Barrel’s new logo, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Flannery O’Connor’s uncomfortable fixations, a few words on bad taste, Grace Community Food Pantry.

Netflix’s ‘Mo’: To be Palestinian and Mexican in Today’s America

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Comedy can be a useful tool to help tackle challenging topics. In Netflix’s ‘Mo,’ characters deal with immigration, war, poverty and memories of Palestine. (Netflix)

Mohammed Amer’s “Mo” provokes laughter and stirs deep emotions, including despair, loneliness and helplessness, as the episodes explore life in America for people on the margins. Mo is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Amer’s life. He’s a Palestinian who grew up in Houston, Texas, immigrating to that city when he was nine years old by way of Kuwait. The comedy-drama format allows Mo to address difficult and divisive issues, such as immigration in America and the Israel-Gaza war, in non-threatening ways.

DeSantis Signs 13th Death Warrant of the Year, for Victor Jones, Murderer of 2 in 1990

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Victor Jones

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County, as the state continues a record-setting year for executions. Victor Tony Jones, 64, is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30 and could become the 13th inmate put to death by lethal injection this year in Florida. The Jones death warrant came after Curtis Windom was executed Thursday evening at Florida State Prison in the 1992 murders of three people in Orange County.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 29, 2025

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Aligator Alcatraz by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

The Friday Blue Forum, when coroner made a hero of a dead burglar, Harold Brodkey on the power of reading, and a few lines from Brodkey’s sorrows.

National Parks Are Overrun and Under-Funded. Here’s How You Can Adapt or a Better Experience.

August 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Crowds often form at popular places in U.S. national parks, like the entrance to Yosemite Valley in California.

National park visitation is growing, with record-high visitor numbers in 2024 across the entire 398-property system, as well as at the 63 formally designated national parks. And there has been a general trend of people gravitating to Instagram-popular parks, and even specific spots within popular parks. Reductions in federal funding and staffing at national parks means visitors may see longer lines to enter parks or popular locations within them, fewer visitor services and educational programs, and fewer rangers to ask for advice or assistance.

Federal Judge Refuses to Pause Order to Close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

August 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A cage at the Everglades migrant lock-up the state calls Alligator Alcatraz. (White House)

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams has refused to pause her order requiring state and federal officials to wind down operations at an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, August 28, 2025

August 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Clay Jones on the mass shooting during a mass at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, the Southern Rock Revival at Palm Coast Concert Series in Town Center, the model yachts are sailing at the Central Park pond, when sanctuary cities had nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with oracles and games.

How the Catholic Church Helped Change the Conversation About Capital Punishment

August 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Helen Prejean has been one of the most high-profile opponents of the death penalty for decades.

The Catholic church’s anti-death penalty teaching has helped provide both a moral foundation and political respectability for those working to end the death penalty. But that teaching is relatively new in the church, dating back to the past half-century. For most of its history, the Catholic Church did not oppose the death penalty.

Trump Didn’t Like a Federal Order. So He Sued Entire Court. Judge Schooled Him.

August 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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A federal judge Tuesday threw out what he called a “novel and potentially calamitous” attempt by the Trump administration to sue the entire federal court in Maryland over an order that put a two-day pause on deportations. When a party disagrees with a court action, there is “a tried-and-true recourse,” wrote Judge Thomas Cullen of the Western District of Virginia — file an appeal. But the Trump administration, when faced with a standing immigration order it didn’t like, instead sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland, the court clerk, and the court itself.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

August 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Gerrymandering simplified by John Cole, PoliticalCartoons.com

Joint workshop of local governments at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, what affordable housing looks like at Stuyvesant Town and the wreckages of Robert Moses.

Israel Has Been Silencing and Assassinating Palestinians Journalists Since 1967

August 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A funeral ceremony takes place in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital in Gaza following the deaths of five journalists on Aug. 25, 2025.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, which collates that data, accuses Israel of “engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists” that the U.S.-based nonprofit has ever seen. “Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work,” the committee added. This history stretches back to at least 1967, when Israel militarily occupied the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip following the Six-Day War.

Trump’s Invasion of DC Costs Over $1 Million a Day. Here’s What That Could Pay for Instead.

August 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Deploying the National Guard against D.C.’s unhoused population costs four times more than simply housing them. That’s true across the country.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, August 26, 2025

August 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Palestinian Journalists murdered by Guy Parsons, PoliticalCartoons.com

Free Know Your Rights Workshop for Renters by Community Legal Services at Flagler Cares, the Palm Coast City Council discusses a slew of issues including the YMCA, the Palm Harbor Golf Club and the search for a new city manager, the school board holds a pair of meetings, Israel’s latest murders of journalists and others.

James Dobson’s Crusade on America

August 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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For decades, one name was ubiquitous in American evangelical homes: Focus on the Family. A media empire with millions of listeners and readers, its messages about parenting, marriage and politics seemed to reach every conservative Christian church and school. And one man’s name was nearly synonymous with Focus on the Family: James Dobson.

3rd Lawsuit Challenges Florida’s Authority to Run ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and Hold People Without Charges

August 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

in stark contrast to typical ICE (federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement) operations,”

Calling it “exactly the kind of disaster that Congress took pains to avoid,” attorneys for immigrants held at a detention center in the Everglades filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration lacks the authority to run the facility. The lawsuit, filed Friday in the federal Middle District of Florida, is the third major legal challenge to the detention center, erected by the DeSantis’ administration as part of the state’s support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

The Most Alarming Price Increase of All: Your Health Insurance Premiums

August 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Since 1999, health insurance premiums for people with employer-provided coverage have more than quadrupled. According to Business Group on Health, a consortium of major employers, “actual health care costs have grown a cumulative 50% since 2017.” In a separate survey published in 2021, 87% of companies said that in the next five to 10 years, the cost of providing health insurance for their workers would become “unsustainable.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, August 25, 2025

August 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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The Bunnell City Commission reconsiders and possibly approves the 6,000-to-8,000 home Reserve at Haw Creek development, the Palm Coast Charter Review Committee holds its inaugural meeting, a modest proposal for ICE.

The Grim Side of Plantation Tourism

August 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Nottoway Plantation, seen before the fire.

The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible. the impulse to monetize history isn’t new. More than 300 plantation sites across the country generate billions of dollars in revenue each year. This type of tourism forces communities and visitors alike to ask a difficult question: What parts of the past do Americans preserve, and for whom?

Free State of Florida Proclaims Right-Wing Indoctrination in Schools

August 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Classroom at Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville, 1959, via State Library and Archives of Florida.

We’re proud to be bringing these precious boys and girls (note the statutorily mandated unambiguous sex designations) the finest curriculum in these United States, handcrafted with love by Gov. Ron DeSantis (J.D. Harvard), Commissioner of Education Anastasios “Stasi” Kamoutsas (J.D. Regent), and your Florida Legislature, all of whom graduated from high school, probably. Here’s a taste of what we have in store for your student! Not to worry: Kids educated in Florida have been trained to resist inappropriate thought.And they can always report professors pushing DEI or CRT or BLM.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 24, 2025

August 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Bethune-Cookman University Concert Chorale is in concert at Palm Coast United Methodist Church, Gamble Jam, chasing that first high, whether it’s the perfect golf swing or a shot of fentanyl.

Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Water. Companies Rarely Tell the Public How Much.

August 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The Columbia River running through The Dalles, Oregon, supplies water to cool data centers.

A 2024 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that in 2023, U.S. data centers consumed 17 billion gallons (64 billion liters) of water directly through cooling, and projects that by 2028, those figures could double – or even quadruple. The same report estimated that in 2023, U.S. data centers consumed an additional 211 billion gallons (800 billion liters) of water indirectly through the electricity that powers them. But that is just an estimate in a fast-changing industry.

Federal Court Orders Florida to Dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ DeSantis Is Not About to Do It.

August 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t backing away from a controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades after a federal judge ordered his administration to begin dismantling the facility, as environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe gear up for the next stage of the legal battle. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction preventing additional construction and bringing additional detainees to the complex, which the state has dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Williams also ordered the removal within 60 days of temporary fencing, detention-center lighting and such things as generators.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 23, 2025

August 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Trump's Art of the Kneel by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Peps Art Walk, Samer Abouhamad’s fabulous cycling adventure across 73,000 miles and all continents.

Why the Eiffel Tower Gets Bigger Every Summer

August 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

La grande tour. (© FlaglerLive)

Specialists have estimated that the Eiffel Tower actually grows between 12 and 15 centimetres when comparing its size on cold winter days with the hottest days of summer. This means that, in addition to being a landmark, a communications tower and a symbol of Paris itself, the Eiffel Tower is also, in effect, a giant thermometer.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 22, 2025

August 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Donald Chamberlain Trump: Peace for our time by Arend van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

Arend van Dam compares the president to Neville Chamberlain, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center in The Hammock, the Friday Blue Forum, intimations of war and rancid patriotism from 1914 to 9/11 to 2025.

FPL ‘Settlement’ With Opponents Reduces Proposed Rate Hike from $2.5 Billion to $1.71 Billion Over 2 Years

August 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

It's complicated. (© FlaglerLive)

But other parties in the case have not agreed to the proposed settlement, including the state Office of Public Counsel, which is designated by law to represent utility customers. The Public Service Commission is expected to hold a hearing this fall to determine if the proposal should be approved.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, August 21, 2025

August 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

White House New Media Sucks (Up) by Malcolm McGookin, CagleCartoons.com

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council member Charles Gambaro, Model Yacht Club Races, the Marineland Commission meets, on being a Sullivan v. New York Times baby, and an interview with Anthony Lewis.

Ancient Greeks Did Not Share Your Love of the Beach

August 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Unlike today, Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. (© FlaglerLive)

Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western countries. Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. As a seafaring people, they mostly lived on the coastline, yet they feared the sea and thought that an agricultural lifestyle was safer and more respectable.

Canadians Not as Interested in Florida as They Used To Be Even as Overall Tourism Numbers Rise

August 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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U.S. travelers continue to bolster Florida’s tourism industry, while the state hopes to make up for a decline in Canadian visitors by drawing people from other countries. Visit Florida on Tuesday estimated 34.435 million people traveled to Florida from April 1 through June 30, up from 34.279 million people during the same period last year. The estimate for this year would be a second-quarter record, according to the state tourism-marketing agency.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

August 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

U.S. State Dept rips human rights from report by Jonathan Brown, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Flagler County Contractor Review Board and Palm Coast’s planning board meet, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, how editorials might write the requiem of the current administration, and a little Gide on Wagner.

As US Folds on Climate, China’s Leadership Steps In

August 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meet in Beijing in May 2025.

While it’s still too early to fully assess the long-term impact of the United States’ political shift when it comes to global cooperation on climate change, there are signs that a new set of leaders is rising to the occasion. China and the European Union issued a joint statement vowing to strengthen their climate targets and meet them. They alluded to the U.S., referring to “the fluid and turbulent international situation today” in saying that “the major economies … must step up efforts to address climate change.”

John Thrasher Remembered as ‘Building Block for a Generation of Conservative Governance’

August 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Florida State University hosted a celebration of life for its former president, John Thrasher, on Aug. 19, 2025. (Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)

Family, Florida legislative figures past and present, and Florida State University stakeholders honored the life of John Thrasher Tuesday in an ceremony representing his lifetime of service to the Sunshine State. Former Gov. Jeb Bush, Thrasher’s successor President Richard McCullough, and children and grandchildren were among those who eulogized the former Florida House Speaker and senator who died in May at the age of 81.

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Lawsuit Over Migrants’ Legal Representation Moved to Orlando

August 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

"Alligator Alcatraz"'s entrance. (Wikimedia Commons)

Pointing to “prudence,” a federal judge late Monday ruled that a battle about legal representation for people at an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades should move to a different court. The judge declared moot the plaintiffs’ argument that the federal government had violated their rights by not identifying an immigration court that would handle their claims. That court has now been identified.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

August 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Washinton takeover by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba

The Palm Coast City Council meets, Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s annual Wine Tasting Meet & Greet at the Palm Coast Community Center, the nostalgia for the College Mariste de Champville.

4 Years of Repressive Taliban Rule, But the World Looks Elsewhere

August 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Taliban soldiers patrolling Kabul in 2021. (Wikimedia Commons)

Despite promises of moderation and inclusion, four years later, the Taliban has established a repressive, exclusionary regime – one that has dismantled institutions of law, justice and civil rights with ruthless efficiency. As the Taliban regime has tightened its grip, international attention has waned. Crises elsewhere dominate the global agenda, pushing Afghanistan out of the spotlight. With the Taliban seeking to end its isolation and gain legitimacy, can the international community find the will now to exert real pressure?

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, August 18, 2025

August 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Benjamin Netanyahu news anchor by Graeme MacKay, caglecartoons.com

The Flagler County Commission meets, so does the Mosquito Control district board, the Library of America’s new volume of Hemingway, containing “A Farewell to Arms.”

‘People Are Really Good at Heart’: Anne Frank Beyond the Quote

August 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Anne Frank in December 1941.

The quote carries a universal message that good will eventually prevail. This has turned Anne’s legacy into an easily adoptable trope, serving activists and political agendas. But who, actually, was Anne Frank? And how did she differ from the “Anne Franks” that have emerged since the end of the war?

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