I had never heard the name Ron DeSantis until a little over a month ago when Andrew Gillum won the Democratic nomination to run for Governor of Florida. DeSantis, Gillum's Republican opponent, decided it would be a good idea to go on national TV and say, out loud, that Florida ...read more
Lost in the news between Trump threatening World War III and Paul Ryan slinking away from Congress like the spineless coward he is was yet another brutal Republican loss in yet another special election:State Rep. Lori Berman (D) has handily defeated Tami Donnally (R) to replace ...read more
Having researched the cesspool of the far left for almost two years now, there's few among its ranks more repugnant than HA Goodman. Formerly a contributor at Salon and The Huffington Post, Goodman wrote hundreds of misleading pieces claiming that Hillary Clinton would be ...read more
After 17 children were slaughtered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, by former student Nikolas Cruz, parents in America must now take matters into their own hands. There is now no other way. With shooting after shooting after shooting, it is abundantly ...read more
Last week, a Muslim man was arrested during a child porn raid in Dunedin, Florida. During the raid, the police found in this man's closet 20 guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, knives, bombs, bomb making materials, and aerial photos of a Tampa-area elementary school, middle ...read more
You really couldn't make this up (via The Daily Beast): Rush Limbaugh will evacuate his South Florida residence in advance of Hurricane Irma, despite his previous claims that the news media had intentionally overhyped the storm to boost ratings and gin up fear about climate ...read more
Back in November of 2016, John Benji Haygood, an autistic 10-year-old, kicked a teacher. Six months later, the police showed up to arrest him, putting him in handcuffs and taking him away in the back of a police cruiser.As the parent of an autistic 9-year-old (as of this coming ...read more
For weeks, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been dodging requests from constituents to hold a town hall meeting. His refusal to speak to the people who he serves has become such a problem that Floridians have taken missing person ads in local papers, stapled signs to telephone ...read more
Donald Trump continued his despicable assault on the press on Wednesday during a rally in Florida. The Republican presidential nominee singled out NBC reporter Katy Tur, again, in another one of his "dishonest media" rants at the Miami event. Trump accused the press, specifically ...read more
For the second time in less than a year, Florida lawmakers are being forced to rewrite the state's death penalty law after a court has ruled it unconstitutional. On Friday, the Florida Supreme Court struck down a provision of the law that allows the "majority" of a jury to ...read more
On Monday, Florida Governor Rick Scott's latest attempt to disenfranchise voters was thwarted by a federal court judge and the governor was reprimanded for his "irrational" decision. Last week, Hurricane Matthew ripped through Northwest Florida causing flooding, government ...read more
Just in case you weren't sure whether Florida governor and evil alien overlord Rick Scott was a special kind of horrible, he's apparently all too happy to step in and prove it to you. By now you've probably seen the viral clip from earlier in the week that showed Scott being run ...read more
In this week's issue of Banter M:It's All Over But The Drowning - Chez Pazienza writes about the prospect of his hometown Miami succumbing to rising water levels due to catastrophic climate change, and wonders how his now oblivious seven year old daughter will navigate a planet ...read more
By now you've probably seen it and if you have, it brightened your day. If you've seen it and you happen to live in Florida, well, you probably stood up and cheered. In a clip that went viral almost immediately after it hit the internet, Florida governor, corporate criminal and ...read more
In the latest installment of what completely insane thing happened in Florida this week, we have a story that potentially tops them all. Forget the fact that government officials can’t use the word ‘climate change’ because it is ‘not a true fact‘, it is legal to shoot unarmed ...read more
No doubt suffering from years of getting his ass kicked in high school, conservative child-man Ben Shapiro is renown for taking his frustrations out on anyone he perceives as being weaker than he is -- namely poor people, women and minorities. However, Shapiro outdid himself this ...read more
Continuing our never ending series covering batshit crazy things that could only happen in Florida, this week it was confirmed that Matthew Riggins, 22, was killed by an alligator while hiding in a lake from police in Barefoot Bay last month. Riggins and another man had ...read more
By now it's pretty much common knowledge that Florida is the most batshit lunatic place on earth, so with that in mind, let me tell you a little story. It's from early in my career when I was working for WSVN in Miami and it involves a Santeria priest, a live goat and a room full ...read more
There are certain places on earth where the normal laws of physics and biology don't seem to apply to human society. The Bermuda Triangle, Area 51, the healing Grotto of Bernadette at Lourdes in France are all mythical places where bizarre happenings reportedly occur. If one were ...read more
Yes, when the facts don't work in your favor, by all means just bury the evidence. Republican governor and hairless Middle-earth cave-dweller Rick Scott was so thoroughly butthurt to discover that state investigators failed to find any wrongdoing on behalf of Planned Parenthood ...read more
As if Florida wasn't suffering enough from face eating zombies, climate change denying politicians, KKK prison guards, and deadly snake kissing morons, a flesh-eating deadly bacteria has been found in Florida beaches that is activated by warm weather. Reports the Palm Beach ...read more
Following our unofficial our unofficial series 'Florida does something really, really stupid', this week someone in the sunshine state did something so mind bogglingly stupid it makes the banning of the term 'climate change' seem like a stroke of genius. No, it wasn't a flesh ...read more
There are a few places on planet earth where human culture has morphed into something so bizarre that visiting aliens would likely pack up their spaceships and head back home to Ursa Minor Beta. Places like North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Somalia spring to mind - deeply repressive ...read more
Florida, the state where it is legal to shoot unarmed black people, real life cannibal zombies eat peoples' faces, and grown men shoot themselves in the balls because guns, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the state officials are not allowed to officially acknowledge climate ...read more
It's the million dollar question: Exactly how corrupt is Florida Governor Rick Scott? The answer may be "beyond our wildest dreams." A new lawsuit brought by former Democratic candidate for state attorney general George Sheldon claims that Scott has failed to disclose about $200 ...read more
(Photo: Democrat Files) He's big and red and, if you've been bad, he's bringing you something you're really not going to like. This Christmas, Satan Claus is coming to town, or at least to Tallahassee (which is kind of like hell anyway). Last week, possibly the greatest ongoing ...read more
Yesterday we told you about a plan by the Satanic Temple to pass out materials to Orange County, Florida students in response to a local Christian group that's been allowed to do the same. For the uninitiated, the Satanic Temple is quite possibly the greatest ongoing troll ...read more
Conservative Christianity and education just don't mix. There's nothing more antithetical to Bronze Age superstition -- the kind of thing that's proudly ignorant and defiantly resistant to logic and reason -- than actually learning how the world works. At their best, conservative ...read more
Oh, Florida. Americans love to hate on it, but the truth is we love it. It's like the crazy uncle our mom hates because he gave us cigarettes when we were 11. Or a beloved three-legged family dog that can't stop chasing its own tail. Either way, you should know what you're ...read more
Yes, America, apparently everything is a partisan political issue, as two very different reactions to LeBron James' decision to leave the Miami Heat to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers demonstrate. The hot story on Friday was the tenterhooked anticipation of the NBA superstar's ...read more
Over the weekend, Twitchy.com and Michelle Malkin blasted President Obama for ordering an investigation into the very serious issue of the dwindling bee population, noting that he should probably be focused on more important things like the never-ending tensions in the Middle ...read more
Over the last several years, we as a nation have come to know -- quite intimately -- law and order as it is practiced in the state of Florida. There was the overly emotional judge who broke down during the Anna Nicole Smith custody hearing; the trials of Ted Bundy, during one of ...read more
No single ideology holds a monopoly on wacky beliefs, unless you count ‘crazy’ as an ideology. But when it comes to the subset of wacky beliefs commonly known as anti-government conspiracy theories, it’s no accident that the American right embraces them with much greater ...read more
“We don’t go around committing hate crimes. We don’t beat up on faggots or black people or burn crosses or any of that nonsense.” -- A Florida man, of course, identified only as "Mr. Hayes" on why he feels should be able to fly both the Confederate and KKK flags outside his home ...read more
These are general responses to a few paraphrased comments from my previous column. A big thanks to everyone who read and left comments. It is much appreciated, even if I disagree with you. “Damn you’re insane! You shouldn’t be carrying a gun!” First, I didn’t kill anyone. I ...read more
My girlfriend and I were lucky enough to recently catch Patton Oswalt at a tiny show he does here in L.A. every once in a while strictly for the purpose of testing out new material. One of the rough jokes we and the rest of the crowd laughed hardest at had to do with his idea for ...read more
Fourth time's the charm, I guess. After shooting and killing an unarmed teenager, being accused of getting into an armed confrontation with his ex-wife, and apparently leaving a bullet-riddled target in the ex's house as a not-so-subtle warning, George Zimmerman finally met a ...read more
I am of course referring to the Travyon Martin decision and the untimely death of Cory Monteith. Now, it could be because I have been under the weather but both have me emotional today. First the case of George Zimmerman. Why did the "stand your ground" law apply to him and not ...read more
Do you watch Morning Joe? You should start. Congressman Peter King (R-NY) just called out Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) big time for coming out against aid for Sandy victims. He has done this before and has been rebuked by the GOP House leadership but he remains really, really, ...read more
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare turns three today. Many of the provisions will go into effect in January 2014 and you may be unsure about how this may impact your coverage. Some states have seen insurance companies increase their premiums and you ...read more
By Ben Cohen: We discuss the topic of Republican voter suppression in this weeks mailbag, but I thought it was worth expanding on a little given how serious the issue is. A reader asked whether we thought that the Republican's admission that they tried to stop minorities from ...read more
By Bob Cesca: This probably won't go over very well in the southern states where the whiny, pouty threat of secession has been revived yet again, but the federal government needs to take over the regulation and process of voting -- and specifically in the states where Republicans ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post:Jim Greer, the former head of the Florida Republican Party, recently claimed that a law shortening the early voting period in the state was deliberately designed to suppress voting among groups that tend to support Democratic ...read more
Obama is holding on to his commanding lead in Ohio – he’s up by 4 points. Richard Adams at the Guardian points out, for Romney to win, he has to take Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa and Colorado. Romney's increasingly narrow path to the PresidencyTo get the latest ...read more
[liveblog]Ok, we're off to a ripping start. Obama goes on the attack immediately accusing Romney of being completely out of touch with reality. He accuses Romney of thinking the biggest geo political threat is Russia! He then lambasts him for being wrong 'every single time' ...read more
President Obama dropped his planned campaign speech in Florida over the weekend and instead held a moment of silence for the victims of the Aurora, Colorado shootings. Said the President: "And if there's anything to take away from this tragedy it's the reminder that life is very ...read more
From the Huff Post:A new trove of evidence released by the Florida state attorney prosecuting George Zimmerman for second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin reveals the extent to which law enforcement doubted Zimmerman's early claims of self-defense. "His actions are ...read more
The neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager in central Florida, could soon be released from custody after a judge set a $150,000 bond that will let him get out of jail while he awaits trial. George Zimmerman apologized in court ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: Rush Limbaugh is a pompous buffoon -- we all know that. When he says something over-the-top, inflammatory and painfully divorced from reality, believe it or not I kind of accept it. I get that there's an argument to be made that the damage he's doing through ...read more
A heavily armed troop of Neo-Nazis are goose-stepping around the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was killed. Members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement are patrolling Sanford, Florida proclaiming they’re prepared for violence in case of a race riot, its commander ...read more