BY JORGE BONILLA I’ll confess. I was NOT awaiting the GOP “autopsy” with bated breath, because I suspected it would miss out on the substantive issues of Hispanic/minority outreach, and would conflate policy with outreach. Sadly, I was right. The GOP’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” is intended to be a launching point from which the Republican party … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Adding further intrigue to an already-charged 2014 election, Orlando attorney John Morgan has announced that he will be throwing his full weight behind a medical-marijuana ballot initiative. If successful, this ballot measure could send a shockwave that is capable of rippling throughout the entire ballot. Per The Miami Herald’s Marc … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA When ACU Chair Al Cardenas went on Telemundo’s “Enfoque” and talked about how CPAC would “stimulate” conservatives into taking a deal on immigration, I knew that it would not end well. I suspected that any discussion of immigration would wrongly focus on style and flexibility on immigration policy, rather than on … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wins today’s CPAC presidential straw poll, edging out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 25-23. What does this say about the state of the party going forward? Basically, two things. First and foremost that there will be, whether the establishment wants it or not, a changing of the guard in … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) addresses the “China Dream”, American execeptionalism, and what is at stake for freedom-loving peoples during his speech at CPAC 2013. Click to watch.
By: JORGE BONILLA From Pyongyang West comes further proof that the Kimming of Venezuela is well underway. Fresh from…ahem… asking the populace to voluntarily disarm, Caretaker President Nicolás Maduro suggested that El Comandante himself exerted influence upon Christ, so that the Argentinian may prevail in the conclave and South America may have its glorious day … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Last night, Grayson appeared on Current/Al-Jazeera (I assume the check has cleared, yes?) and railed against the Ryan budget; saying, among other things, that Ryan wanted Americans to work until they die (quickly?). But in the process of denouncing the Ryan budget, Grayson went on to call Medicare reform “the My … Read more
By: JORGE BONILLA Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll has resigned, two days after an FDLE probe into her involvement with Allied Veterans Of The World, a non-profit organization that operates internet cafés. Per the Florida-Times Union: Rick Scott tapped Carroll, a Navy veteran, to be his running mate during a 2010 news conference outside Jacksonville … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Ronald Reagan is known to be an admirer of the man known as “Silent Cal”. Today, his fiscal and moral clarity is needed more than ever. Charles Johnson’s publishing debut tackles the lessons that Coolidge left behind, and why they are relevant today. Silent Cal was able to communicate economic principles, … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA What if a conservative border-state congressman could show the GOP the way to earn (and hold) a significant portion of the Hispanic vote? Would the D.C.-Miami consultant/establishment class take heed from a member of both the Republican Study Committee the Tea Party Caucus, or would it continue to roll along the … Read more