Opinion

In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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  You know there is a problem in this country when there are schools complaining that school children should NOT have to listen to the president of the United States. Right here in…
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  Last week I mentioned the possibility of Crist picking himself or having the new governor pick him to succeed Mel Martinez as the junior senator from Florida after resigning his post…
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What if Mel Martinez resigns later this month? He is then followed by a Florida Governor Charlie Crist resignation, making Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp the new governor of Florida.…
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I just received this press release from the Brennan Center. Together with Advancement Project, a civil rights organization out of Washington, D.C., I’ve been lucky to work closely with…
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One of the area’s master manipulator of information, the man who serves (or served) the U.S.’ three letter agency in Spain, Carlos Alberto Montaner is at it again. An intelligent man,…
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    I just finished reading an article written by Jorge Dominguez in the Harvard Magazine. It’s the type of piece written by one of the most respected authorities on Cuba in the U.S.,…
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She is a co-founder of Code Pink, a woman’s peace group. Medea Benjanmin also is founding director of the human rights group Global Exchange, has struggled for social justice and human…
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Someday we may look back and say: “He told us so!” I am referring to the Marlins baseball stadium whose construction was started today. During a Miami-Dade County Commission meeting…
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Cesar Ham, presidential candidate and the head of Honduras' only registered leftist political party, the Democratic Unification of Honduras, is dead. He was killed by a squad of…
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