A special Jax Files Weekend

2009-11-07T04:09:33+00:00

Saturday on the Jax Files Weekend, former state House Speaker and current candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate Marco Rubio begins his day in the Tampa Bay area with a visit to the Talkradio 860, WGUL studios. We’ll hear him out on the meaning of Tuesday’s off-year…

Insufficiently coercive GOP health plan

2009-11-05T22:25:46+00:00

Gus Bilirakis on House Republicans’ non-radical health-care proposal, as scored by the Congressional Budget Office:

U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Palm Harbor), representing Florida’s 9th Congressional District, today issued the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirmed that the Republican health care plan will lower premiums by up…

GBW smells an AARP rat

2009-11-05T22:21:02+00:00

Ginny Brown-Waite weighs in on the announcement of an endorsement that was no secret three months ago, during the height of the August town hall furor.

U.S. Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Brooksville) was disappointed to learn of AARP’s decision to endorse the Democrats’ $1.3 trillion health care bill:

“There was…

Read the bill?

2009-11-05T14:13:47+00:00

With the echoes of August ringing in her ears, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite is making available copies of Nancy Pelosi’s 2,000-page paperweight for her District 5 constituents to marvel over ahead of Saturday’s presumed vote in the House of Representatives. The details from Brown-Waite’s office follow:

Washington D.C. – U.S.…

Gov. Crist’s loopy history

2009-11-05T04:17:46+00:00

From the “You can fool some of the people all of the time” file, courtesy of the Associated Press:

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist is saying he did not endorse the $787 billion federal stimulus bill, a statement that might confuse some voters. [Confuse is putting it mildly; irritate, astonish,…

Rising fever of warmism alarmism

2009-11-04T21:29:40+00:00

Global warmism alarmism is much with us as the planet lurches toward an even larger and more pressing worry: the global emissions summit scheduled next month in Copenhagen.

The Obama administration’s handwringing reached a fever pitch Wednesday when chief climate negotiator – who knew? – Todd Stern climbed Capitol Hill…

What’s an ‘emolument,’ anyway?

2009-11-03T03:00:26+00:00

It is a source of fascination and amusement that many of the same folks who embrace the notion of a “living, breathing, evolving” U.S. Constitution, and who are quite on board with unelected judges discovering “penumbras” that support their ideas of social justice can at the same time be dismissive…

Naked power grab

2009-10-29T19:01:48+00:00

Battling back even as U.S. House Democratic leaders congratulated themselves for crafting a brand new doorstop masquerading as a health care “reform” package, U.S. Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Palm Harbor) joined the chorus decrying the plan as a naked government takeover:

“Instead of working to produce health care reform that…

On sheriff, straightening the record

2009-10-28T19:56:36+00:00

Here at The Jax Files, we hate to leave loose ends dangling, even if those straggling ends result from, or are engendered by, our endeavors on behalf of the column that appears in the Pasco Tribune.

To wit: Our piece on the resignation of Pasco sheriff’s deputy Jeffrey Bousquet (“

About that business wih the family tree

2009-10-21T20:49:48+00:00

It turns out the so-called missing link, the single ancestor from which humans and the great apes are supposed to have diverged, has yet to be found.

Not that you would know if you’d caught May’s TV “documentary” based on the book, “The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor.” Experts denounced…