The Sunshine Empire

“ In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” -Charles de Gaulle (General and French President)

The news breaking this morning is that Fidel Castro has stepped down as the head of communist Cuba.  My guess is that George W. Bush will claim that he defeated and caused the downfall of Castro through his positive attitude and invasion of Iraq.  The feelings in The Sunshine Empire are strongly anti-Castro.  During my [...]

The topic of the day in this never ending Presidential campaign is the issue of taking Federal matching funds, and the limits they entail for the general election.  To look between the lines of what’s said is to show the real status of the various campaigns.  Very early in this campaign cycle, which begun it [...]

In another example of how The Sunshine Empire is the first with breaking political commentary and debate, during the Super Tuesday returns we posed the idea of Al Gore coming in to rescue the party from a civil war at the convention.  Now weeks later the big boys are picking up the story.  Read this [...]

With the brewing civil war in the Democratic party over the Presidential nominee, the issue of Florida and Michigan has come up as a solution among Hillary Clinton supporters. When Howard Dean declared that he would stand by the irrelevance of Iowa and New Hampshire, and punished Florida and Michigan I was livid. I declared [...]

The world of The Sunshine Empire is losing a dear piece of the puzzle. The TSE brain trust is invaluable to the existence of The Sunshine Empire, but no man is more responsible for the current state of The Empire than Money Mike. As of this writing, when you type in “Political Commentary” into msn.com, [...]

“ There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” -Alexis de Tocqueville

This point has been made across the blog world, but I wanted to chime in on this matter of John McCain and torture. First, any use of the words John McCain and Maverick in the same sentence fully disproves any mainstream media liberal bias that can be claimed. The political life of John McCain has [...]

Valentines Day has passed, and by and large it was not the usual insidious day of hell that it has been in the past for me. The haze of chocolate and cheap champagne and sake have cleared, but I took it easy. Other than it being freezing for Florida it was a chamber of commerce [...]