Who is Ernesto Juan Torres?
Snooty stiff-necked former Lt. Colonel.Running for St. Augustine Beach City CommissionWorks for HOAs -- conflict of interest Formerly chaired Code Enforcement Board, acting arrogantly in hearings.30+...
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Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’. (Atlantic Monthly)
Our Florida National Guard is headquartered in St. Augustine, where thinking people will be voting for Joe Biden.My father was not a "loser" and he was not a "sucker."Before the war, he was a victim of...
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Science Magazine Editor Pens Scathing Critique Of Trump’s ‘Shameful’ COVID-19...
SCIENCE is the most respected scientific journal in the United Statesw of America. Kudos to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and its SCIENCE MAGAZINE editor for speaking...
View ArticleFMC Corporation Convicted of MBTA Violations: United States v. FMC...
1978 Court of Appeals decision upholding criminal convictions of Fmc Corporation for violations of Migratory Bird Treaty Act, one of the environmental laws President Donald John Trump has sought to...
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FMC Corporation's $80 million False Claims Act settlement re: Bradley...
FMC Corporation employs as a malathion marketer controversial Florida Mosquito Control Association, Inc. President DONNIE POWERS, whose dual roles I have reported to the FTC, Justice Department and...
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Blurred Ethical Lines -- LEWIS, LONGMAN & WALKER Law Firm Represents Florida...
Florida corporate lawyer TERRY LEWIS's controversial law firm makes dozens of damning admissions on the website of the law firm of LEWIS, LONGMAN & WALKER, whose partners are obstructing member...
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President John Adams' Prayer, Carved in White House Marble Mantlepiece
I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but the wise men ever rule under this roof. —John AdamsThe first President to occupy the...
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Florida Lawyers Seek to Make Guardianship Records Confidential. (Florida...
Warning: this proposed Open Records exemption would allow guardians to peculate undetected.It would make all records on incapacity and guardianship secret.Who benefits?Louche lawyers and guileful...
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, R.I.P.
One of my legal heroes (or sheroes) has died. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the Thurgood Marshall of women's rights, winning five of six Supreme Court oral arguments. She faced rampant sex...
View ArticleSeptember 19, 1945
Fort Benning, Georgia in summer 1945: my dad taught map-reading in preparation for the expected invasion of Japan. Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese surrender.75 years ago today, in a...
View ArticleStanding up for democracy and American values, by Ed Slavin
Until 1777, St. Augustine had no printing press and no newspaper. In 1776, it took several weeks for British residents of the fourteenth British colony here to learn of the Declaration of...
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Joe Mullins Again Erupts in String of Abuse Against Commissioner Hansen at...
Nasty Flagler County Commissioner JOSEPH F. MULLINS is at it again. Like DONALD JOHN TRUMP, in your guts you know he's nuts. From Flagler Live: Joe Mullins Again Erupts in String of Abuse Against...
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No Censure for Commissioner Joe Mullins; Bumptious Bully Allowed to Vote on...
Charter member of the Smirking Turkey Society (STS), Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins is seated next to former St. Johns County Assistant County Administrator Jerry Thomas Cameron, now the...
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Column: Trump has every right to name a Supreme Court nominee. But beware!...
I agree with Eric Zorn: "the President proposes and Congress disposes," as my freshman Government Professor, Valerie Earle, told us at Georgetown University in 1974. Will Senate Republicans will rue...
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Does Commissioner Joe Mullins Regret His Opposition to COVID Masks? Newsweek...
A political tourist, Flagler County, Florida Commissioner JOSEPH F. MULLINS (R-Georgia) bears moral responsibility for encouraging the anti-maskers, whose unenlightened anti-science ideology just...
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JFK's Houston Ministerial Association Speech, September 12, 1960
September 12th was the 60th anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 1960 speech to the Houston Ministerial Association, in which he laid to rest anti-Catholic bigotry. Reverend Meza, Reverend Reck,...
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SHERIFF DAVID SHOAR, et ux found "GORDIAN STRATEGIC SERVICES, LLC."
Corruption Junction, What's Your Function? What is the Sheriff of St. Johns County doing starting a secretive Limited Liability Company? Who are its customers? From Florida Secretary of State,...
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Florida Supreme Court OKs County Charters With Nonpartisan Elections...
Florida Justices OK Nonpartisan County RacesJanuary 4, 2019ALEX PICKETT(CN) – A Florida county can continue to hold nonpartisan elections for offices such as sheriff and tax collector as long as those...
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Florida Mosquito Control Association, Inc., Lewis Longman & Walker, "Can't...
Taxpayers fund the Florida Mosquito Control Assocition, Inc. through contributing membership dues from Florida government agencies. Kudos to a number of those agencies, including our Anastasia...
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