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Fact check: Trump not even remotely true on coronavirus death toll, testing....
"The first casualty when war comes is truth." -- Senator Hiram Johnson of California, 1917.Profligate, pompous President* DONALD JOHN TRUMP called our efforts against the pandemic a "war."President...
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Dr. Eiugene Lyon, Ph.D., R.I.P.
One of the finest historians of St. Augustine, Florida has passed -- Dr. Eugene Lyon. My heart goes out to his wife, family, friends and colleagues.Eugene LyonDr. Eugene Lyon, an international expert...
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'It's a nightmare': Florida's unemployment call-takers describe system...
First Coast News reporter David Jones has interviewed call center employees who are witnesses to the State of Florida's disastrous unemployment compensation system. The Department of Economic...
View ArticleSt. Augustine City Manager John Regan apologizes for lying to Commission
From City of St. Augustine Facebook page:City Manager John Regan addresses concerns over the decision to cancel this year's 4th of July fireworks celebration, Fireworks Over the Matanzas:During the May...
View Article4th Circuit En Banc Revives Trump Emoluments Clause Litigation
All of the judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond have now heard and ruled en banc that the emoluments clause lawsuit against DONALD JOHN TRUMP can proceed. Read it for yourself: it is...
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En Banc 4th Circuit Revives Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump “Allowing the...
Appeals court rules against Trump on Emoluments ClauseBY HARPER NEIDIG - 05/14/20 08:44 AM EDTA federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against President Trump in a lawsuit alleging that he's violated...
View ArticleIn Florida, felons must pay court debts before they can vote. But with no...
Part of the delay is that the sponsors of the constitutional amendment hired a lawyer who hurt their case with improvident statements during oral argument before the Florida Supreme Court on Amendment...
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Flagler Beach and County Commissioners Call Out Joe Mullins Over a Baseless,...
Flagler Beach and County Commissioners Call Out Joe Mullins Over a Baseless, Inflammatory ClaimMAY 11, 2020 | FLAGLERLIVE | 36 COMMENTSParking along Flagler Beach's boardwalk and pier has been closed...
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S. David Freeman, green-energy champion who advised presidents, dies at 94....
I am saddened by the loss of S. David Freeman, former Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority.He was an engineer, a lawyer, and a mighty warrior for green energy, who helped shut down some two dozen...
View ArticleThe Ugly Americans Are Baa---ack in St. Augustine, Florida
I was just at CVS in St. Augustine Beach, Florida, where four extra-large tourists from a neighboring state that was once a British prison colony, unadorned by a single mask for COVID-19 protection,...
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President Obama Speaks to Graduates Tonight; in 2009, St. Johns County...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA speaks to 2020 graduates tonight (see below).September 2009: I received a telephone call on my then-employer's guest house landline in St. Augustine Beach, said to be from a...
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Jaeckle v. Flagler College, Inc.: Plaintiff Dr. Tina Jaeckel's Motion to File...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE DIVISIONPLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINTCOMES NOW Plaintiff, Tina Jaeckle (“Plaintiff”), by and through...
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Jaeckle v. Flagler College, Inc. -- Second Amended Complaint in Federal Court...
As my mother once wrote an unenlightened South Jersey college president, "an educational institution must not be run as a dictatorship." Dr. Tina Jaeckle has filed an amended complaint in the United...
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Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 6 points in Florida, new poll shows (Orlando...
"The Day of Redemption is at hand," as the French parish priest told Sunday Mass parishioners in the beginning of the movie, The Longest Day. At 1 am on the morning of June 6, 1944, my dad and some...
View ArticleVP Joe Biden's 2012 Speech at Ketterlinus Gym, St. Augustine, Florida. (SAR)
Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. visited St. Augustine and spoke here in Ketterlinus Gym in 2012. Here's the video:Video credit: St. Augustine Record When Joe Biden does "call and...
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May 17, 1983, 37 Years Ago This Morning: Oak Ridge Mercury Declassification
On the morning of May 17, 1983, one of the PIOs for the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Operations called me at our Appalachian Observer office at 121 Leinart Street in Clinton, Tennessee, asking...
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CHANCELLOR WILLIAM LEE PROCTOR RETIRES -- Flagler College Chancellor Under...
Does the air seem cleaner? Are the birds chirping more happily? Is our politics in St. Augustine getting cleaner, not meaner? Is there a reason for the season? FLAGLER COLEGE, INC. Chancellor WILLIAM...
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After 15 years, St. Augustine Beach City garage retrieved from illegal,...
Congratulations to St. Augustine Beach Police and St. Johns County Ocean Rescue on their new building, adjoining the bocci courts at St. Augustine Beach, bordering St. Johns County Ocean and Fishing...
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Democracy is NOT a Spectator Sport
FDR said in his March 4, 1933 Inaugural, "the only thing we have to fear is, fear itself."My father and I were once walking around Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park. We passed a man...
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Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen. (Walt...
RAYTHEON is a soulless corporation against which I once litigated a case involving an illegal airline it operated in the Kwajalein Islands. Here's the latest investigative news story on RAYTHEON,...
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