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Florida

When you start banning books that are “objectionable” to parents, stuff like this is bound to happen.

John Fea   |  April 27, 2022

A Florida man wants to ban the Bible from public schools. He wonders if Florida parents really want their kids exposed to rape, bestiality, cannibalism and infanticide. Psalm 137:9 says: “Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes […]

What if Disney left Florida?

John Fea   |  April 23, 2022

The governor of Colorado has rolled-out the red carpet for Disney. Here is Dana Milbank: Mickey Mouse needs a sanctuary city. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Hades) got his state legislature this week to abolish the favorable tax arrangement that brought Disney World to Orlando and […]

What Florida history students may not learn if Gov. Ron DeSantis gets his way

John Fea   |  February 11, 2022

Here is Gillian Brockell at The Washington Post: The Florida state legislature kicked off Black History Month by advancing bills that would allow parents to sue a school if any instruction caused students “discomfort, guilt or anguish.” The bills have […]

The Author’s Corner with Brad Stoddard

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 18, 2022

Brad Stoddard is Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College. This interview is based on his new book, Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-Based Prisons and the Carceral State (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Spiritual […]

Tweet of the day

John Fea   |  September 4, 2021

From a Seminole County, Florida school board meeting: Based on what he says here, Michael Beck should be pro-choice on abortion, but something tells me he is not. Here is his entire speech. It picks up at the 1:48:10 mark:

Florida history teacher: “I do not teach critical race theory”

John Fea   |  June 30, 2021

Jessica Morey teaches African-American history, Advanced Placement U.S. history, A.P. U.S. government, and economics at St. Francis Catholic High School in Gainesville, Florida. She says she does not teach critical race theory. In a recent piece at The Gainesville Sun, […]

Val Demings (D-Fla.) is planning a run against Marco Rubio

John Fea   |  May 25, 2021

Demings was a House manager in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and was on Joe Biden’s vice-presidential shortlist. Political scientists Ashley Daniels and Pearl Dowe think Demings has a chance of taking Rubio’s Senate seat if she can mobilize Black […]

“You can repeal Obamacare from the comfort of your own home”: When the GOP encouraged its members to vote by mail

John Fea   |  May 3, 2021

I found Amy Gardner’s piece at The Washington Post through Tom Sullivan’s post at Hullabaloo. There was once a time when the GOP loved mail-in voting. No more. Here is Gardner: Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine […]

Video of the Day

John Fea   |  April 19, 2021

Cocoa Beach, Florida:

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