In an interview last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch man-turtle McConnell said that republicans’ number one legislative priority would be to make President Obama a one term president. Now I’m personally sick of liberals getting their panties in a bunch every time a republican expresses their desire to see Obama out of office. That fact [...]
It’s well documented that conservative expectations for the performance of the Obama administration are uniformly negative. Mr. Obama could propose tomorrow that the federal capital be renamed “Reagantown” and conservatives would find some element of fascism within the proposal. But an accurate way to gauge the successes of the Obama administration is what conservatives and [...]
There is no better example of the ridiculous state of American politics than my dear home state of Florida. This is the state mind you, that gave us the presidential recount drama of 2000. But the meritocracy that the founders imagined has died in America, and Florida is its tombstone. In both the race for [...]
July 1st is a very important day in history. In 1898 on July 1st the Battle of San Juan Hill was fought by the Rough Riders and future President Theodore Roosevelt. It is also the date three years ago that this website went live for the first time. I had been writing for a while [...]
Writers block is a bitch, let’s just be honest here folks. The dead of summer has settled in here in The Sunshine Empire and the tempestuous mix between blinding heat and torrential thunderstorms is now a daily occurrence. I’m a naturally opinionated American, but we deal with issues of such immense proportion that they last [...]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
My home state of Florida is a massive cauldron of violence, sunshine, and insanity on its good days. Yet lately the political story lines have been a roller coaster ride of awesomeness. Traditionally the good political stories out of the Sunshine State have tended to be of the insane butterfly-ballot, Katherine Harris type. Yet today, [...]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Before I get to what I wanted to discuss today, I didn’t realize I missed a milestone. In the same week I passed 6000 tweets I also passed 2000 posts here at The Sunshine Empire. The world is a vastly different place from when I began writing this back in 2007. Since that time we’ve [...]
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