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Weather: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 106. Breezy, with a south wind 9 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. South wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph.
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Today at a Glance:
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
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Now this: During the 1876 campaign the great orator and former Illinois Attorney General Robert Ingersoll said in one of his then-celebrated speeches: “Every State that seceded from the United States was a Democratic State. Every ordinance of secession that was drawn was drawn by a Democrat. Every man that endeavored to tear the old flag from the heaven that it enriches was a Democrat. Every man that tried to destroy this nation was a Democrat. Every enemy this great Republic had for twenty years has been a Democrat. Every man that shot Union soldiers was a Democrat…. Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat. The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. Every man that wanted the privilege of whipping another man to make him work for him for nothing, was a Democrat…. Every man that impaired the credit of the United States, every man that swore we would never pay the bonds, every man that swore we would never redeem the greenbacks, every maligner of his country’s credit, or his country’s honor, was a Democrat.” Two thoughts: I’m surprised historically decontextualized Republicans (which is to say most Republicans) don’t use this speech more often these days. Second, I’m surprised Democrats don’t substitute the word Republican for every instance of Democrat and use it every day. They’d have a case.
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August 2026
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Nar-Anon Family Group
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
Primary Election Early Voting in Flagler County
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Tuesday Book Talk at Flagler Beach Public Library
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
With great confidence and some justification, Republicans have long proclaimed that theirs is the party of ideas. So it seemed quite a turn when Rep. Steve Largent, R-Wash., in the Republicans’ response to the State of the Union address, found himself having to pose this question: “What does the party of Lincoln and Reagan stand for today?” The question confounds Republicans at every gathering. At a meeting of the national party the other day, Jim Nicholson was re-elected chairman not because he had a fresh agenda. Rather, his backers persuaded party members that — as the person who nominated him put it — it was not his fault that “we lack a coherent message.” Even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich conceded in a speech in January that after his party recaptured the House in 1994, “we were not able to create a second agenda.” For a generation, Republicans have been the tribune of a resurgent American conservatism. Republicanism not only brought electoral success, it changed the way Americans thought of their government and of themselves. There were divisions in the party and tensions between social and economic strains of conservative thought, but nobody doubted that Republicans had an agenda or that the party’s world view was ascendant. Now, suddenly, the definition of conservatism is up for grabs. With the budget balanced, crime down, the welfare rolls and divorce rates shrunken under a Democratic president, the line between Democrats and Republicans can be hard to find. So Republicans find themselves defined by impeachment, by their argument that the president represents a nation in moral decline and must be removed. Republicans have found that Americans are leery of a party that appears to be pressing for moral cleansing — whether it is about Clinton, abortion or the rights of homosexuals — and may be offended by the notion. “The reason Republicans seem so headless is because they have this enormously important issue in front of them — the impeachment of the president — but they don’t want to acknowledge that it is their most important issue,” said David Frum, a conservative theorist in Washington.
–From “Republicans Face Identity Crisis,” by Richard L. Berke, The New York Times, Jan. 31, 1999.
Pogo says
1929, not 1999.
Welcome to hell.
Dennis C Rathsam says
TRUMP has Iran, between a rock & a hard place. Night after night, more buildlng are collapsing on top of their turbans. He has them bottled up again. Food is scarce, water will be worth its wait in gold.With nowhere to get clean drinkable water Iranians lives are in tatterers! Germany knew when it was time to serrender. Japan caved in right away, after Nola Grey made its historic flight. TRUMP made it clear, games are over.Do whatever it takes to end their majic carpet ride. Bridges were destroyed. They a stuck with nothing coming in & nothing going out. How much longer will the people of Persia cave into these terrorist ? I think these people are nothing but slaves now …. Asking every morning is today my last day on earth!
The dude says
I’m not sure what’s worse.
The giddiness and glee over people being killed, or the absolute slaughter of the English language on display here…
BillC says
… and who isn’t familiar with the historic flight of the “Nola Grey”? That’s not misspelling, that’s disregard for sensibility.
Skibum says
Wait just a darn second! Haven’t you heard? There is no war against Iran because Generalisimo Bone Spurs already conquered those Middle Eastern radicals a long, long time ago… according to the multitude of proclamations already made from the WH.
Here’s just a sampling since maga mush brains apparently didn’t get the memo from watching fauxinfotainment nuze:
7 March – ‘The war is a minor excursion’
9 March – ‘We’ve already won… but we haven’t won enough’
11 March – Trump says US won Iran war in ‘first hour’
12 March – ‘Nothing left to target’, says Trump
17 March – War was over in ‘two or three days’
20 March – ‘We’ve won’
24 March – ‘War has been won’
15 April – War will be over ‘very soon’
17 April – Trump declares victory over Iran
1 May – Hostilities have ‘terminated’
5 May – Operation Epic Fury is ‘over’ says Rubio
On and on and on… the war apparently was declared “won” more than 38 times. And that was after we had already “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment program by bombing them last October!
I guess they have achieved a heretofore unknown ability through osmosis to magically, without any reconstruction, to waive a wand and presto! All of their nuclear bomb making production is once again a dastardly threat to the world. Or… the idiot prez and his drunkard chief of testosterone in the Pentagon are habitual liars… lied to you, lied to me, lied to Congress, lied to our allies, and lied to NATO.
But you will hear none of these truths on the clown show network known as fauxinfotainment nuze because they need the bone spurred felon’s sheeple for ratings just as much as the convicted felon sex abuser in the WH needs them to help spread disinformation over their nuze waves. In other words… it is a total circle jerk, but with NO happy ending.
Laurel says
Would somebody grab a net, please?