DOUBLE JEOPARDY = Damned if you Do or Don't!!

Serious reporting with a smirk — because when a Bill being put in front of the Florida Legislature proposes putting together a task force to analyze Florida citizens “ patterns of life ,” the punchline may be a bit overdue. Florida lawmakers have proposed creating a permanent, statewide counterintelligence machine inside Florida Department of Law Enforcement — pushed in the House by Danny Alvarez ( HB 945 ) and mirrored in the Senate by Jonathan Martin (SB 1712).  The bills would stand up a unit designed to detect and “neutralize” threats from what the text calls “ adversary intelligence entities ,” with powers that stretch from analyzing patterns of life to making arrests.  Here’s the short version of what the legislation would do, and why civil-liberties groups are not exactly RSVP-ing “yes” to the launch party. What the bills propose (plain English) • Mission & placement: Create a Statewide Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Unit inside FDLE to address forei...

By a Trump Supporter Who Believes Loyalty and Honesty Are Not Opposites... Let me tell you who I am before I tell you what I think — because in today’s political climate, context is everything. I voted for Donald Trump . Twice. And I would do it again. I watched crime rates fall in my community after his immigration policies took hold. I watched my retirement account grow under his economic stewardship. I watched him move the American embassy to Jerusalem , broker the Abraham Accords , and take on a political establishment that had been failing working Americans for decades. I believe in his vision of an America that puts its own citizens first. I believe the mainstream media spent years trying to destroy a man they feared rather than covering a man they disagreed with. And I believe the Russia collusion narrative — built around a politically funded dossier and later exposed as deeply compromised by official investigations — was one of the most consequential political controversi...