Florida Agenda

By Cliff Dunn “The modern president is America’s shrink, a social worker, our very own national talk show host. He’s also the Supreme Warlord of the Earth.” Gene Healy, “The Cult of the Presidency” President Obama’s historic words last week announcing his support of full marriage equality for gay Americans was as simple as it [...]

CLIFF DUNN, EDITOR   “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” Oscar Wilde   I have a vivid childhood memory of my mother which had a lasting impact on the man I would become. Like a lot of kids, I had to endure bullies at various times [...]

By CLIFF DUNN “God is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Anonymous My partner and I were watching a movie the other night. I can’t recall which one, or what it was about, but one thing that stood out was the signage. By this, I refer to signs being carried by one side in the [...]

CLIFF DUNN, EDITOR   “Where they have burned books,        they will end in burning human beings.” -Heinrich Heine   Last week, hundreds of thousands of students at thousands of schools across the U.S. participated in the 2012 National Day of Silence, a day established to draw awareness to the evils of bullying and homophobic [...]

By CLIFF DUNN I received a text message last week from a friend with whom I haven’t spoken in years. It was an ultrasound image showing an unborn baby girl. The message that accompanied it conveyed all the joy and happiness that I imagine must have been registered on the sender’s face. “Cliff,” it said, [...]

By Cliff Dunn Photo: PRESIDENT TAFT (LEFT), ARCHIBALD BUTT (RIGHT) This weekend, Leonardo Di Caprio fans—not all of them teenage girls—and history buffs alike will mark the centennial anniversary of one of the most widely-known and depicted disasters in modern history, the sinking of RMS Titanic. I enjoyed the 1997 James Cameron film: I thought [...]

By CLIFF DUNN This weekend, Leonardo Di Caprio fans—not all of them teenage girls—and history buffs alike will mark the centennial anniversary of one of the most widely-known and depicted disasters in modern history, the sinking of RMS Titanic. I enjoyed the 1997 James Cameron film: I thought that it succeeded in capturing the gargantuan [...]

By CLIFF DUNN “And when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said… Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers … And let them judge the people at all seasons: and [...]

By CLIFF DUNN  “First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they [...]

  By CLIFF DUNN The jury’s verdict last Friday in State of New Jersey vs. Dharun Ravi was foundational in many important ways, and gave me reason, for a change, to be grateful for the rational system of jury trials that was established under our Constitution. Having lived through the 1995 O.J. Simpson verdict, I [...]